It declared in this treatymark these words wellthat it "voluntarily and forever renounces all sovereign rights possessed by Russia over the Lithuanian people and their territory." Lithuanian freedom was. unfortunately. shortlived. Twentyone years ago this June. the brave and peaceful country of Lithuania was perfidiously invaded by the Red Army. and was brought under Soviet rule. For almost two decades the Bolsheviks surrounded their regime in Lithuania with an iron curtain inside an iron curtain. Scores of thousands of intellectuals were executed or deported to Siberia. The resistance movement was crushed. through the application of unlimited terror. Russian settlers by the thousands were brought in. to help consolidate Soviet control and to supplant the ancient Lithuanian culture and civilization. with a Russifled totalitarian culture.
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