The Soviet Union annexed Lithuania outright and made this small country a constituent Soviet republic. There were even more agonizing misfortunes. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Lithuanians. perhaps 500.000 in all. were deported deep into the interior of the Soviet Union to exile. suffering and death. The cream of the Lithuanian nation was thus. so.to speak. ruthlessly skimmed off in an effort to break the will and smash the resistance of this noble people. The miseries of the Lithuanians under their Communist overlords have been intense. and we know that this anniversary of their national independence is not a happy day for them.
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