This resulted in about 2.000 leading people being arrested without any legal recourse and being sentenced to prison or shot. In November 1940. the Communists issued an order to account for all antiCommunist forces in Lithuania. This accounting was to include all former members of antiSoviet political parties. organizations and groups. all former members of nationalistic parties. organizations. and groups. former gendarmes. policemen. and generals. former army officers. persons expelled from the Communist Party. political emigrants. all citizens of foreign countries. former workers of the Red Cross. former noblemen. estate owners. merchants. bankers. and employers of hired help. These people were all to be purged. Between June 14 and June 21. 1941. 34.260 persons were sent to Siberia. In 1944. when the Communists again invaded Lithuania. a new wave of deportations was carried out. There were several other deportations. and finally in 194849. to break the resistance of Lithuanian farmers to collectivism. about 10 percent of Lithuanias population. more than 300.000 people. were deported to Siberia. Today Lithuanias seaboard areas are peopled by Russians. The freedomloving Lithuanians are broken and scattered about Siberia. where many of them are worked to death.
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