Abstract
AN AFTER-EFFECT OF WORLD WAR II was the birth of new states in Asia and Africa. States were also established during the war, but puppet formations of the type of Slovakia and Manchukuo were swept into oblivion as soon as the regimes in whose bosom they had been born were defeated. At the same time there were states that disappeared in World War II. This is a phenomenon that has not been sufficiently discussed, for the disappearance was due to actions by one of the winners of the war-Stalin's Russia. Above all it concerns the three Baltic States, members of the League of Nations-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, whose incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940 was not recognised by the free world. It was largely thanks to this circumstance that they managed to regain their independence in the course of reforms initiated by Gorbachev in 1990-91. Another factor that contributed was historical memory-the fate of the independent (1918-40) Baltic states has been mentioned in all reliable publications on World War II.
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