Speaker. 23 years ago three small but vigorous. progressive. and independent nationsLithuania. Latvia. and Estoniawere occupied by Communist Russia under conditions of cruelty and in complete defiance of international law and order. June 14 commemorates massive deportation from these countries by the Soviet Union as the Communists moved viciously and deliberately to break the backbone of resistance in those countries and literally scatter these brave peoples to the four winds within the vast Soviet slave empire. At the present time. the Soviet Union in its diabolical fashion carries on the pretext that Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia are content as members of the U.S.S.R. and also maintains the pretext that the Soviet Socialist Republics bearing their names gives their people recognition and autonomy. The facts are that in addition to waves of deportation. the Communists have attempted to repopulate and "Russify" the Baltic lands. We must emphasize that for centuries the Baltic peoples lived under subjugation by the autocratic Czarist Russian regimes. They obtained a brief period of independence following World War I. to be swallowed up by their monstrous neighbor.
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