«Russia and Estonia agree borders». BBC, 18-05-2005 [Consulta: 29 abril 2009]. «Five decades of almost unbroken Soviet occupation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ended in 1991»
«22 setembre 1944 from one occupation to another». Estonian Embassy in Washington, 22-09-2008. [Consulta: 1r maig 2009]. «For Estonia, World War II did not end, de facto, until 31 August 1994, with the final withdrawal of former Soviet troops from Estonian soil.»
Kavass, Igor I. Baltic States. W. S. Hein, 1972. «The forcible military occupation and subsequent annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union remains to this day (written in 1972) one of the serious unsolved issues of international law»
Feldbrugge, Ferdinand; Gerard Pieter van den Berg, William B. Simons. Encyclopedia of Soviet law. BRILL, 1985, p. 461. ISBN 9024730759. «On March 26, 1949, the US department of State issued a circular letter stating that the Baltic countries were still independent nations with their own diplomatic representatives and consuls.»
Lauterpacht, E.; C. J. Greenwood. International Law Reports. Cambridge University Press, 1967, p. 62–63. ISBN 0521463807. «The Court said: (256 N.Y.S.2d 196) " The Government of the United States has never recognized the forceful occupation of Estonia and Latvia by the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics nor does it recognize the absorption and incorporation of Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist republics. The legality of the acts, laws and degrees of the puppet regimes set up in those countries by the USSR is not recognized by the United States, diplomatic or consular officers are not maintained in either Estonia or Latvia and full recognition is given to the Legations of Estonia and Latvia established and maintained here by the Governments in exile of those countries»
Combs, Dick. Inside The Soviet Alternate Universe. Penn State Press, 2008, p. 258,259. ISBN 9780271033556. «The Putin administration has stubbornly refused to admit the fact of Soviet occupation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia following World War II, although Putin has acknowledged that in 1989, during Gorbachevs reign, the Soviet parliament officially denounced the Molotov-Rippentrop Pact of 1939, which led to the forcible incorporation of the three baltic states into the Soviet Union.»
Bugajski, Janusz. Cold peace. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, p. 109. ISBN 0275983625. «Russian officials persistently claim that the Baltic states entered the USSR voluntarily and legally at the close of World War II and failed to acknowledge that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were under Soviet occupation for fifty years.»
Fried, Daniel. «U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating 85 Years of Friendship», 14-06-2007. Arxivat de l'original el 13 de juny 2013. «From Sumner Wells' declaration of July 23, 1940, that we would not recognize the occupation. We housed the exiled Baltic diplomatic delegations. We accredited their diplomats. We flew their flags in the State Department's Hall of Flags. We never recognized in deed or word or symbol the illegal occupation of their lands.»
«Seventh session Agenda item 9». United Nations, Human Rights Council, Mission to Estonia, 17-03-2008. [Consulta: 1r maig 2009]. «The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 assigned Estonia to the Soviet sphere of influence, prompting the beginning of the first Soviet occupation in 1940. After the German defeat in 1944, the second Soviet occupation started and Estonia became a Soviet republic.»[Enllaç no actiu]
Fried, Daniel. «U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating 85 Years of Friendship», 14-06-2007. Arxivat de l'original el 13 de juny 2013. «From Sumner Wells' declaration of July 23, 1940, that we would not recognize the occupation. We housed the exiled Baltic diplomatic delegations. We accredited their diplomats. We flew their flags in the State Department's Hall of Flags. We never recognized in deed or word or symbol the illegal occupation of their lands.»
