CIA • 1989

NID: USSR: BALTS TO MARK 1939 ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826766 Special Analysis USSR: Balls To Mark 1939 Anniversary Tomorrow Nationalists in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are planning demonstrations tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of Me Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact. Although Moscow reportedly intends to renounce the treaty', party officials are trying to play down its significance, fearful that radical nationalists in the Baltic and other non-Russian republics will exploit the renunciation in their drive for independence. Pragmatic Baltic leaders are trying to dampen local expectations about what they regard as a largely symbolic issue...