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1939.  Nearly 95 percent moved into Finland after the Treaty of Moscow,   
and over 300, 000 have moved back into the area since 1941.  In the   
disputed area the population was approximately 97.6 percent   
Finnish-speaking, 1.3 percent Swedish-speaking, and 0.9 percent   
Russian-specking.  The ceded and leased areas are chiefly of strategic   
importance to Finland, and Viipuri is of special sentimental   
                 significance to the Finns.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
3. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.---These republics proclaimed their   
indpendence of Russia in 1918 and secured it in 1920.  By treaties of   
October 1939 their military and naval bases were occupied by Soviet   
troops, and by ulimate of June 1940 they were required to institute new   
governments.  Legislatures subsequently eleted under complete Soviet   
occupation established soviet socialist rejpublics ans petitioned for   
admission to the USSR, which was granted in August 1940. The Soviet   
Government claims these three states, occupied by Germany since 1941, as   
             constituent republics of the USSR.             
 
                                                            
 
 
ESTONIA: Area, 18, 353 square miles; population (est. 1939), 1, 134, 000;   
Ethnic compositions: Estonians, 87.7%; Russians 8.2 %; Germans, 1.7%   
          Swedes, 0.7%; Jews, 0.4%; others, 1.3%;           
 
                                                            
 
 
LATVIA: Area, 25, 402 square miles; population, 1, 950,502.  Ethnic   
composition: Latvians, 75.5%; Russians, 10.59%; Jews, 4.79%; Germans,   
                           3.19%.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
LITHUANIA: Area, 22, 959 square miles; population 2,879,070. Ethnic   
composition: Lithuanians, 80.14%; Jews, 7.11%; Poles, 3.02%; Russians,   
                   2.34%; Germans, 4.08%;                   
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Vilna District.-- Vilna was disputed by Poland and Lithuania after   
the first World War.  It was seized by the Ploes in 1920.  Poland's   
sovereignty over it was recognized by teh principal Allied Powers and by   
the League of Nations but not by Lithuania.  In 1940 the Soviet Union,   
having occupied the area upon the collapse of Poland, deded it to   
Lithuania, but a few months later Lithuania itself was incorporated into   
the USSR.  The Vilna district is now claimed by the Soviet Union, by   
and, and by representatives of the former Lithuanian governm
 
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