Lithuania was an honored member of the family of free nations. faithfully fulfilling all her obligations in the international community. The contrast between those happy days and the present is deplorable. It has been described by the Lithuanian American Council in these words: Today. a rigid Soviet censorship hides from the world the continuing deportations under the guise of "volunteer" work elsewhere. the collectivization of a once most prosperous nation. the slave labor camps. the systematic efforts of the Soviet occupational regime to organically merge Lithuania into the Soviet system. the extermination of the hostile antiSoviet element by killings of the resistant groups. by russiflcation and colonization by Russian elements. But the spirit of freedom remains alive in Lithuania. As this proud and virile nation survived other oppressions. so shall it survive this one.
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