Mr. Speaker. last weekend marked the 22d anniversary of the first mass deportations from the Baltic States which took place on June 14. 15. and 16. 1941. Generation after generation of the Baltic people have withstood the influence of their adversaries even though they were physically overcome. The people of Latvia. Lithuania. and Estonia have never lost their identity and have preserved their cultural heritage and their individuality throughout centuries of vicissitudes despite superimposed regimes. It is ironic that the latest effort to overcome the Baltic people and to destroy their nationality and their longpreserved identity should have come from Russia within the generation of those who in establishing the Soviet Government proclaimed "the right of the peoples of Russia to free selfdetermination up to and including separation and formation of independents states."-International Conciliation.
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