Mr. Speaker. on this day in 1941 there began the mass deportations of the citizens of the Baltic States by the Communists. For 21 years the people of Latvia. Lithuania. and Estonia have been subjected to suffering and exile at the hands of the Russians. and in the years since 1941 other nationalities have come to learn firsthand of the terrible plight of these first three nations to fall to the Russian military might. Today we can only guess at the toll in human lives which these vicious Communists have taken throughout the captive nations. We should also give thanks for our own freedom and pledge again our determination to stand against the forces of international communism until these peoples in the captive nations are once more free of the oppressive rule of the Russian Communists.
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