The Soviet Government was not content with the destruction of the independence of these countries and the consequent enslavement of the people there. In their attempt to eliminate and uproot all opposition to their oppressive Communist regime. Soviet authorities began systematic and wholesale arrests and imprisonments in these countries and deportations. This largescale man hunt continued for more than a year. until mid1941. by which time hundreds of thousands of innocent and helpless Estonian. Latvian. and Lithuanian citizens were exiled in freight cars to distant Asiatic Russia. That was more than 20 years ago. and unfortunately to this day neither the peoples in these three countries. nor the people of the A4657 nonCommunist world knows much of their fate. Of course. many of them must have died in misery while laboring in Soviet slavelabor camps. but we hope that many of them are still alive. and pray. on this anniversary of their deportation. for their deliverance from Communist totalitarian enslavement. TenYearOld Asks: Why Are We Mad at Russians?
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