Speech #870209777

In 1939 the Soviet Government imposed mutual assistance pacts upon the Baltic States as an excuse for stationing troops in Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. In 1940 the Kremlin incorporated the Baltic States into the Soviet Union by threat and connivery. In 1941 began the mass deportations to Siberia as part of a cruel plan to enslave the Baltic nations. But the fact that the populations of these countries are still living in slavery two decades later does not mean that their serfdom will last forever. It must not last forever. for man can live just so long in slavery. especially when he has known something better.