Mr. Speaker. one of the Ironies of modern times Is the "progress" which mankind has made in developing weapons of mass terror and conquest. The barbaric practices of antiquity have given way to the more efficientmethods of the gas chamber. slave labor camp. and cattlecar deportation. It is the last technique in particular which the observance of Baltic Freedom Days on June 1416 brings to mind. for it was 22 years ago this week that the Soviets ruthlessly executed a mass deportation in the three conquered Republics of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. The goal of these mass deportations. along with mass arrests and exterminations. was the complete physical and spiritual destruction of these three small nations. The figures are staggering. During one night aloneJune 14about 10.000 Estonian men. women. and children were arrested and shipped in cattle cars to Siberia and northern Russia.
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