Mr. Speaker. 22 years ago this month saw the enforced deportation to Siberian slave labor camps of thousands of free and innocent peoples. being slowly crushed under the heel of Soviet Russian imperialism. We speak today in memory of this sad occasion. yet call attention to the heroism of the peoples and nations involvedLatvia. Lithuania. and Estonia. Here we have three small countries that grew into respectable and ably administered independence after the horrors of the First World War--an independence guaranteed by the Allied Powers and confirmed by treaty with a powerful neighbor. Soviet Russia. - These betweenthewar years were well used by the governments and peoples of the Baltic States to develop economically and politically. within the range of their domestic interests and within the confines of their own nationality.
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