Giant strides forward were made in agriculture. industry. and social improvement. With war clouds once again gathering over Europe in the late 1930s. this liberty was not destined to last for long. Landhungry dictators. eager to settle their own people on Lithuanian soil. had long coveted the independent Baltic state. First Germany. then Russia. made impossible demands on Lithuania. After years of great hardships suffered under the two opposing armies during which many Lithuanians were killed. deported. or fled. Lithuania found itself once more a part of Its big eastern neighbor. We. as freedomloving Americans. have never accepted this usurpation on the part of Russia.
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