On February 16. 1918. the Republic of Lithuania was proclaimed. For 22 years Lithuania held its rightful place in the assembly of free nations and then. despite solemn Soviet treaty pledges of 1920 and 1939 to renounce "all rights of sovereignty in the Baltic States" Lithuania was overrun by the Soviet Union. Since that time deportations of many Lithuanian citizens have gone on and the sons and daughters of Lithuania are to be found in the vast slave labor camps of the Communists empire. This independence day Is a reminder to us that Lithuania still fights valiantly for freedom. Lithuania has every right to this freedom.
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