Industrial growth was fostered and five times as many workers were employed in factories in 1939 as in 1913. Literature and art flourished. and music. too. World War II brought disaster to Lithuania as it did to so many countries. After the infamous pact signed between Moscow and Nazi Germany that partitioned Poland yet a fourth time. the Russians imposed on Lithuania a socalled nonaggression treaty. and then shortly thereafter occupied the country outright in 1940. Perhaps as many as 45.000 Lithuanians were deported to the Soviet Union. Then. as during the First World War. German forces replaced the Russians.
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