Policies of Russification were vigorously imposed and Lithuanian nationality was relegated to an inferior status in the days of czarist Russia. Tsarist oppression. however. is moderate compared with the type of Sovietization now imposed upon the country. In maintaining power in Lithuania. the Soviets have instituted campaigns of mass deportations. they have restructured every aspect of Lithuanian society. making it conform to Communist norms. they have reduced the Lithuanian people to the ignoble status of a colonial people. they have deprived these people of all freedom. As part of the scheme of Sovietization. Soviet Russia has carried on a campaign to eradicate entirely the Lithuanian national consciousness.
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