Speech #870162896

Casimirs Hall in commemoration of the 44th year of the declaration of the Lithuanian independence. the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Whereas the Soviet Union in persuance of secret agreements between Joseph Stalin and his Government with Hitler and his Government in 1940 invaded. occupied and subjugated three independent Baltic States: Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. and "Whereas Soviet occupational forces. Red army and secret police. upon orders from Moscow have conducted and continue to conduct an elaborate plan of genocide. aiming at destruction of the peoples of these three nations by wholesale incarceratic tortures. executions. and mass deportation to remoteregions of the Soviet Union. and "Whereas the three former free and independent Baltic States have been turned by brutal economic exploitation. coercion. and terror into colonies of the Red Soviet Empire. their properties confiscated. and their farmers and workers reduced to the state of serfs. and "Whereas the 22d Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. assembled in Moscow in October of last year. after hearing charges made by the present head of the Communist Party. and of the present Soviet Government. Nikita Khrushchev. against Joseph Stalin. the late head of the Communist Party and the Government of the Soviet Union. has condemned Stalin as an insane criminal and condemned most of the acts perpetrated by Stalin and his Government. and "Whereas the Soviet Union through her representatives in the United Nations and at other International forums has been posing as the protector of all subjugated peoples and has started a noisy campaign of all the remaining colonies in Asia and Africa: Now. therefore. be it "Resolved. That the LithuanianAmericans of said Worcester do hereby express their thanks and gratitude to the Government of the United States of America for its support of the Lithuanian cause for freedom and for its refusal to recognize the illegal. by force of arms. annexation of the Baltic States.