Despite an earlier nonaggression treaty with the Soviets the little country was forced to accept Soviet troops and grant air bases to the Russians. A rigged election produced a congress which requested the incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union. On August 3. 1940. at this "request." Lithuania was declared a constituent republic of the U.S.S.R. For over two decades the Lithuanians have suffered under the totalitarian rule of the tyrants in Moscow. Scores of thousands of intellectuals were executed or deported to Siberia. The resistance movement was crushed through the application. of unlimited terror. Russian settlers were brought in to help consolidate Soviet control and to supplant the ancient Lithuanian culture and civilization.
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