Name: AUSTRALIAN BALTS AND WHITLAM - 1974 Presentation by Valda Liepiņa
Start: 2025-11-25T10:00:00+11:00
Location: Polish White Eagle Club

$AUSTRALIAN BALTS AND WHITLAM - 1974 Presentation by Valda Liepi\u0146a$

The Reuters report from Moscow on the morning of Saturday, 3 August 1974 sent shockwaves through the Baltic community in Australia. The Australian Government, led by Gough Whitlam, had decided to grant de jure recognition to the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union.
Had the Baltic communities in Australia not succeeded in overturning this deeply unjust decision, the path to renewed Baltic independence in 1989–1991 would have been far more difficult.
AUSTRALIAN BALTS AND WHITLAM - 1974
Presentation (in English)
Valda Liepiņa – former Melburnian and current Chair of the Board of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia – will speak about the events, their context, and their consequences.
Tuesday, 25 November at 8.00 pm White Eagle Polish Club, 38 David street, Turner Street (immediately following the Latvian Independence Day 107th anniversary celebration)