text: I suggest you look up the definition of annexation.  It may not have been forceful but it was still annexation.  Besides...So what?  Is there something wrong with critics of how the process evolved?  And here's a news flash for you...Kalinin's PARENTS were both COMMUNISTS!  But what does that have to do with Kalinin?  Similarly, what does whatever Freeland's grandfather did have to do with her?