On that date. at the beginning of a campaign to suppress antiCommunist opposition. 15.000 Latvian men. women. and even innocent children were packed into cattle cars to begin a journey to the east. This outrage was only the beginning. By the end of the year. 19.000 more of their fellow countrymen had been arrested. deported. or killed. The same story was reinacted in Estonia and Lithuania. On the night of June 1415. Lithuania lost 30.000 people to the inhuman slave labor camps in Russia. Fifteen thousand Estonians were inlike fashion deported. Most of these unfortunate victims. sacrificed to the totalitarian Communist order. never returned .A3258 or went insane. broken by Soviet brutalities and inhuman living conditions. But what happened to their fellow countrymen at home? After the Germans drove out the Russians. they were in turn defeated by the Red Army which returned in 1944. Once more the tyranny and deportations reappeared. showing that the earlier atrocities were not just the child of impulsive barbarism. In all. half a million souls from these three former independent states. Latvia. Estonia. and Lithuania. were deported to suffer torture. disease. and starvation. We cannot describe the hideous acts that these people suffered. Many did not live to tell their story.
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