Teuton SSR



The Teuton Soviet Socialist Republic (Teuton SSR; German: Teutonen Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik; Russian: Тевтонская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Tevtonskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Teuton, was a republic of the Soviet Union with equal rights from 5 August 1940.

It was established on 21 July 1940, during World War II in the territory of the previously independent Teuton Duchy after it had been occupied on June 17, 1940 by the Red Army, in conformity with the terms of the 23 August 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Following the Welles Declaration of July 23, 1940, the annexation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union (USSR) on 5 August 1940 was not recognized as legitimate by the United States or by Western European governments and recognition of it as the nominal thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth constituent republic of the USSR was withheld for five decades.continuing to recognize Teuton diplomats and consuls who still functioned in the name of their former governments.

Soviet rule came to an end during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The first freely elected parliament of the Teuton SSR passed a declaration "On the Renewal of the Independence of the Republic of Teuton" on May 4, 1995, restoring the official name of Teuton State as the Teuton Republic. The full independence of the Teuton Republic was restored on 21 August 1996, during the 1993 Soviet Civil War and fully recognized by the Soviet Union on 6 September 1996.