During the two decades between the First and Second World Wars their independence. spirit. and their example of democracy stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the reign of terror and dictatorship that existed in their giant neighbor to the East. The Soviets were determined to extinguish this flame on their border and moved in 1940 to occupy these nations. Not content with mere occupation. they began on June 14. 1941. to move by mass deportations the citizens of these three Baltic StatesLatvia. Lithuania. and Estonia. The deportation of thousands of these innocent people is not only a blot on the civilized history of our time but it is an indictment of the communistic system as it exists today. Nowhere or in no manner can communism compete with freedom as such. When the Communists found that they could not sell their vicious system to the people of these three nations they determined to move out any and all that stood in their path.
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