Jaan Anvelt, an Estonian Communist who led the Moscow-backed attempt to overthrow the Estonian government in December 1924. After the coup failed, Anvelt fled to Moscow, where he was beaten to death by the NKVD during Stalin's Great Purge.

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Latvian poet Ivars Šteinbergs performs at a Dzejas dienas (Poetry Days) event at Bar DIDRO in the town of Kuldīga

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A shot from the absurdist Latvian short film Journey to Tukums, released in 1992.

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The reflection of Vilnius TV tower is clearly seen in a Soviet adaptation of Sartre's "Chameleon's Game", set in Paris

The relatively "Western" Baltics were frequent sets for Soviet films portraying distant locations

(Image: Lietuvos Kino Centras)

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Composers Vladimir Martynov and Arvo Pärt (right) in Tallinn, November 1978

(Photographer unknown, possibly Hardijs Lediņš. Collection of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art)

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From Latvian photographer Vika Eksta's series "The Dream of the Sea", created off-season in the popular resort town of Pāvilosta

(Image: Vika Eksta)

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First edition of Metūgės [“New Shoots”] by Lithuanian émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė, published in Toronto, harshly criticised by critics at the time for its "morals and eroticism"

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"Superman Boy" by Andrew Miksys - Vilnius, 1999

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Lake Adamova in the eastern Latvian region of Latgale.

In the 1930s, under the authoritarian rule of Kārlis Ulmanis, it was renamed Kalnezers. "Latvianisation" of place names also took place elsewhere in Latgale during this period.

(Image: Sirujs Enobs)

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A former Baltic German manor in Veismaņi, near Cēsis in Latvia.

(Image: Mike Collier)

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In this advert from interwar Lithuania, Florance asks "doesn’t everyone dream of having teeth like this?"

(Image: Tarpukurio Lietuvos Reklama)

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Street scene in Pakruojis, Lithuania

[Image: Jacob Mikanowski]

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The resolution in 1938 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to extend the NKVD's operations against members of various nationalities, including Latvians, claimed to be spies and saboteurs

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