The church buildings are still there. but have now been converted into warehouses. markets. stables. handcraft factories or art galleries. Prosperous farms have given way to unkempt. poorly cultivated collectives. An influx of Russian colonists has undertaken to continue the policy of Russification and to settle the barren lands and fill the vacant jobs caused by mass deportations and massacres of the Lithuanian people. However tragic the situation appears. each and every visitor from America and other countries of the free world report that the hope for a free and independent nation lives on in the hearts of the Lithuanians. Communist indoctrination. persecution. and the threat of Siberia or liquidation have had little effect on the memories of this courageous people.
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