The world watched with admiration for the next 22 years at the transformation which occurred as these people emerged from the conditions which years of tyranny had forced upon them. But this little land was in the way of the German and Russian juggernauts during World War II and by 1944 a Russian reign of terror forced Lithuania into the Soviet Union. Then these warravaged people were subjected to purges. deportations. and forced labor of typical Communist savagery. Commemorative occasions like this one serve to call attention again to the fact that the United States does not recognize the seizure of Lithuania by the Soviet Union and has no intention of changing its position about this act of tyranny. Our statements in the Congress are a reaffirmation of this Nations desire eventually to see all captive lands of the Communist bloc free to choose their own forms of government.
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