Mr. President. this year marks the 22d anniversary of one of the most inhuman actions perpetrated by the Soviet Union during its long history of oppression and slavery. On June 14. 15. and 16. 1941. thousands of men. women. and children were forcibly deported from their homelands to unknown parts of Siberia. This barbaric act took place in the Baltic countries of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania. which the Soviet Union had occupied in clear violation of nonaggression pacts with all three. The Baltic States gained their independence during the years immediately following the First World War. Each nation based its sovereignty on the Wilsonian principle of selfdetermination.
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