logo for University at Albany, SUNY — Photo Credit: By http://www.albany.edu/logo/graphic_manual_2011.pdf, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33347557
John von Neumann — Photo Credit: By LANL - http://www.lanl.gov/history/atomicbomb/images/NeumannL.GIF (archive copy), Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3429594
Lithuanian delegation before departing to Moscow on October 7, 1939 — Urbšys is third from left. Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5119730
Signing of the Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty — by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov. Standing behind him are (from left to right): the Plenipotentiary of the USSR in Latvia Ivan Zotov, Secretary of the VKP(b) Joseph Stalin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Vilhelms Munters, Ambassador of Latvia in the USSR Fricis Kociņš and first Deputy of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potyomkin Photo Credit: By Mikhail Mikhaylovich Kalashnikov - Победа. Фотодокументы, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77823049
Signing of the Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty
by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov. Standing behind him are (from left to right): the Plenipotentiary of the USSR in Latvia Ivan Zotov, Secretary of the VKP(b) Joseph Stalin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Vilhelms Munters, Ambassador of Latvia in the USSR Fricis Kociņš and first Deputy of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potyomkin
Red Army entering Estonia in 1939 after Estonia had been forced to sign the bases treaty — Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66520026
Soldiers of the Red Army enters the territory of Lithuania — during the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940 Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106307815
Signing the Agreement to eliminate the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States —
Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (second from left seated), Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich (third from left seated) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (second from right seated) during the signing ceremony to eliminate the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States. Viskuly Government House in the Belorusian National Park "Belovezhskaya Forest". Photo Credit: By RIA Novosti archive, image #848095 / U. Ivanov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17824662
Signing the Agreement to eliminate the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States
Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (second from left seated), Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich (third from left seated) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (second from right seated) during the signing ceremony to eliminate the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States. Viskuly Government House in the Belorusian National Park "Belovezhskaya Forest".