Speech #880010381

In the next 4 years. almost 300.000 Lithuanians were uprooted and deportedmany with the agricultural collectivization of 1949. In their rise and fall. Estonia and Latvia have followed a similar course: Exploitation by both native and foreign oppressors. cabinet instability and a multiplicity of political parties. and eventual incorporation into the Soviet Union as the fall of the Iron Curtain clanked shut because of an army of occupation. rigged elections. and the mass deportation of political prisoners. Such has been the sad and trying history of these gallant and spirited peoples. This attempted suppression of human freedom justly deserves the attention of the President and the Senate of the United States and all the free peoples who participate in the United Nations.