Seventy years ago, on June 19, 1945, the Soviet Union annexed Carpatho-Ukraine, which on March 15, 1939, had proclaimed its independence and soon thereafter lost it when Hungarian troops, with Nazi Germany’s approval, invaded it. An agreement was formally signed by Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet foreign commissar, and Dr. Zednek Fierlinger, premier of Czechoslovakia, in the … Continue reading June 29, 1945