Eternal Baltic August

... violation of their legal obligations before them.” In the 27 years since, the decisions of the Congress and the Commission have been criticized by radical nationalists in the republics, as well as by the governments of the Baltic states and, finally, Russian politicians and historians. The radical nationalists believed that power could de facto and de jure still be taken in 1990. Many Russian historians and politicians, meanwhile, argued that adopting the decision created a legal basis for the Baltic ...