Latvians. and Lithuanians lost their freedom and were caught in the clutches of Soviet tyranny. In the meantime wholesale arrests and imprisonments of prominent men in all three countries were carried out relentlessly. These unfortunate souls were hurriedly packed up in freight cars and deported to distant parts of the Soviet Union. This terror of arrests and imprisonments. and deportation continued for a year. culminating in the largest mass arrests and deportations in tens of thousands in one single day alone. on the night of June 1314. 1941. It is no exaggeration to say many hundreds of thousands were thus uprooted from their homes and deported to inhospitable regions of distant Asiatic Russia. there to work and suffer in slave labor camps. seeking their salvation in death. The free world will never know the number of these unfortunate Baltic peoples thus doomed to certain death. All we know is that only a few of them were fortunate to survive the ordeal. and then return to their beloved homelands alive.
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