Latvia. and Lithuania. I do not refer to the forced granting of milita7 bases on the soil of these nations to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. although that was an act that history cannot condone. I refer principally to the mass deportation of many thousands of men. women. and children .to Siberia following this occupation of the ttiree Baltic nations. The story of what happened in these nations has been detailed in past reports by a special committee of this House. The extent of the tragedy has been blurred by the secrecy that covers the punitive facility of the Soviet Union. But the indifference to family love. to nationality. to basic rights of human beings. is clear to be seen in the record. It was in those days that Marshal Ivan Serov was hard at work signing deportation orders and seeing to it that people who might become embarrassing to the occupiers were sent away. Later he became the boss of security throughout the Soviet Union. He is something of an expert in the field of inhumanity He organized the deportation of Caucasians and Crimeans in 1944. presumably using his experience with the Balts. he personally instituted the security policy systems in Poland and East Germany in 1945 and it was probably he who planned the invitation to Polish resistance leaders to be killed in 1944. He was in Hungary in 1956. The United States has never recognized the forced incorporation of these three States into the Soviet Union.
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