Justly proud and sovereign countries which had achieved independence after World War I could only enjoy that independence a relatively short period before they were forced to fight to keep it. They withstood both the Germans and the Russian Communists to the best of their ability but were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 by force and illegal elections. The story of the mass executions and the mass deportations of the tens of thousands of these people to slave labor camps in the Arctic mark those days as a shameful insult to humanity the world over. Let us not forget that the actions of the Soviet Communists both Immediately after the perpetration of these inhuman acts and over the intervening years have done little to atone for their black deeds or to ease the lot of the brave survivors. We Americans rejoice that some of these Baltic people managed to make their way to this country.
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