Speaker. on June 15. we commemorate the advent of Soviet rule in Lithuania in 1940. At that time an army of the Soviet Union marched into Lithuania and demanded the formation of a friendly government. In order to insure their dominance. the Soviet rulers during the course of the following year deported over 30.000 members of the Lithuanian intelligentsia to Siberia and executed about 5.000 others. Twentyone years later this crime seems nonetheless horrifying to us. We look back with grief and compassion at the fate of these Lithuanians and the other peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia who died in the wake of Soviet domination.
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