Everything was expropriated without even a mention of possible compensation. In the course of only 1 month. all of Lithuania was converted into a huge prison. and its inhabitants into serfs of the Soviet masters. In accordance with the secret master plan worked out In Moscow. in the night from June 1314. 1941. some 40.000 Llthuanians were deported from Lithuania to slave labor camps in Siberia. Among those taken away were women. children. aged. even the sick and infirm. Wives and children were ruthlessly separated from husbands and fathers. The deportees were crammed into cattle cars. the doors were boarded up and nailed shut. Quite a few of these unfortunate Lithuanians died en route. The Lithuanian nation will never be able to forget this frightful day.
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