Mr. Speaker. the night of June 14. 1941. and the days to follow were tragic ones for the peoples of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia as thousands upon thousands were forcibly driven from their homes and deported under inhuman conditions by the Soviet Communists. The national independence of the Baltic States had already been destroyed by the incorporation of these three countries into the Soviet Union in 1940. But the Communists did not rest content with the destruction of independence. They were bent on destroying the peoples of these countries as well. by denouncing as traitors and sending to slave labor camps in Siberia anyone who dared criticize the totalitarian system that had been forced upon freedomloving peoples.
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