V. D. General Serov. who is now chief of secret police for Tzar Khrushchev. called for the Immediate mass deportation of all intellectual and leadership elements of the populations. In the darkness of night on the evenng of June 1314. 1941. the Russian secret police conducted a manhunt from one end of the country to the other. Using lists prepared well in advance. these agents broke into homes. rounded up entire fpmilies and carried them off to railroad centers where boxcars destined for Siberia awaited them. At the points of embarkation the families were broken up. husbands separated from wives. and children of all ages separated from their parents. It Is clear that this procedure was carefully planned in advance. organized in the most cruel fashion so as tomake the suffering of the deportees all the greater. Over 70.000 brave. freedomloving people of the Baltic States were deported in this manner from their homelands to a dismal life of human slavery in the far reaches of the Soviet Union on that black night 17 years a:go. Their only offense was -that they. loved liberty. their homeland. and refused to give up their belief in God. Many of these deportees died en route to Siberia. more died of starvation and mistreatment after arrival. No one knows how many are still alive. but word continues to reach the world outside the Russian prison of nations about some of those martyrs whb still endure a living death. The Baltic nations then were sibjected to rule by. the Nazi Gestapo.
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