But Russian repression under the czar. though it existed. was light compared to the tactics of the Soviets. Individual liberties have been crushed. selfgoverning institutions have been demolished. and the once flourishing culture of the Baltic Republics had been choked by the Soviet tyranny. Everything has been remolded to fit the structure of totalitarianism. everything. that is. but the courageous peoples of these three unfortunate nations. For the mass deportations of citizens. unspeakably tragic though they be. are a telling account of the failure of the Communists to remake the Baltic peoples in their own image. We commend the populations of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia for their resistance to the insidious techniques of the Soviets.
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