On June 15. 1940. they were confronted with an ultimatum demanding immediate formation of a government "friendly" to the occupation forces. A rigged election at that time produced a congress which unanimously requested A4401 incorporation of the states into the Soviet Union. On the nights of June 15 and 16 about 30.000 members of the Lithuanian intelligentsia were deported to Siberia and another 5.000 were enslaved in their homeland. This mass deportation of many thousands of men. women. and children. the extent of which has been largely blurred by secrecy. showed a clear indifference for national and human rights. The inhumanities manifest in this action will remain a blur on the pages of history. The United States has never recognized this forced incorporation by the Soviet Union but has continued to give its moral support to the cause of the fight for liberty in Lithuania.
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