KERSTEN Of Wisconsin. was adopted by this House to create a committee to investigate fully the circumstances of the seizure of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union and the treatment accorded their peoples during and after their forced "incorporation" in the U. S. S. R. In Washington. New York. Detroit. and Chicago. eyewitnesses. masked or from behind screens. have told this committee of monstrous crimes committed by the Red army in Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. Films. smuggled out in the closing days of the war. have explained in detail how the Soviets take over a country. Stories have been told of continued deportations from Lithuania during the past year. But a note of hope has also emerged. Witnesses have told of a courageous and active underground movement continuing in Lithuania.
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