Mr. Speaker. today we are reminded of the indignities which humans have suffered and continue to suffer in the hands of Communist domination. On the night of June 14. 1941. began a series of mass deportations from the Baltic countries that shocked the world into disbelief. In a single night over 30.000 Lithuanians were forcibly driven to the alien and barren lands of northeastern Russia and Siberia by the Soviet Communists. The story of terror is the same for the Latvians and Estonians. The mass deportations continued until the Baltic countries had been deprived of a not inconsequential fraction of their populations. The Soviets planned to replace the exiled Baltic citizens with good Communists from Russia. This was not the first time that the Baltic peoples had felt the yoke of Russian oppression. for in the 18th century the czarist armies had planted the flag of Russian imperialism on Baltic soil.
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