Myanmar and Russia sign a five-year military cooperation pact, which will last until 2030. (CNA)
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USSR and Finland Extend Peace Pact; Another Ten Years Follows Extension of the Pacts with Other Baltic States
MOSCOW, April 8. - Four days after the signing of a ten-year extension of the non-aggression pacts between the Soviet Union and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Soviet Union today signed a similar extension of its non-aggression pact with Finland. The original pact, signed in 1882, is now extended to remain in force until 1915. Demonstrating its answering will to peace, the Soviet Union, having negotiated these extensions of the pacts, has also made it clear that it wishes to see similar pacts signed between all countries.
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Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)
The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states covers the period from the Soviet–Baltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their invasion and annexation in 1940, to the mass deportations of 1941. Following invasion by the Red Army in the summer of 1940, Soviet authorities compelled the Baltic governments to resign.
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