Early in that war the Red Army attacked Lithuania. and by mid1940 Lithuanian independence had vanished. Soon Lithuanians found themselves enslaved by the Communist regime imposed upon them by the Kremlin. and thenceforth authorities arrested and imprisoned all Lithuanians. Subsequently many thousand innocent peoples were also arrested. and in a mass deportation. they were exiled to distant parts of Soviet Russia. Some of these deportees must have died far from their homes and friends. and today on the observance of the anniversary of their deportation. we mourn their death and condemn this inhuman act of Soviet authorities. Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia: Symbolic Victims of Red Tyranny
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