This Baltic nation began taking giant strides in industry. in farming. in education. and in the arts. Then. in June. 1940. the Soviet Union. following the pattern of conquest laid down by the czars. broke its peace treaty of 1920 with its Lithuanian neighbor and once again the yoke of Russian tyranny was clamped down on the proud state of Lithuania. Remembering the fierceness with which the Lithuanians had fought against past enslavement. the Soviet invaders deported hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians from their homes and farms to the vast darkness of Siberia. And so for 18 years. Lithuania has been a nation in chains. a nation where freedom is only an unextinguishable spark in the national soul.
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