The Red army overran those countries. occupied them. their inhabitants were enslaved under the newly instituted Communist regimes . there. and the countries were annexed to the Soviet Union. Meanwhile. arrests and imprisonments of Baltic nations took place on an unprecedented scale. in tens of thousands. perhaps in hundreds of thousands. All those thus arrested and imprisoned were shipped. in a huge mass deportation. to distant parts of the Soviet Union. Today. more than two decades later. we do not know much about the sad fate of these Baltic peoples in exile. In observing the anniversary of those tragic mass deportations. we pray for the liberation of those who still survive in Soviet prison camps. Twentyfirst Anniversary of the First Mass Deportations From the Baltic States. Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. by Russia.
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