When the Nazis and the Soviets concluded their agreement. the Communists were then given a free hand to take over Lithuania. in spite of the earlier treaty and a subsequent nonaggression pact signed in 1926. The Soviets occupied Lithuania in 1940 and absorbed it into the Soviet Union. The pattern of World War II was repeated. Lithuania suffered under the wartime occupation of the Nazis and then the return of the Red army. The tiny nation was exploited economically. and many of its citizens were liquidated and deported. In spite of these unending series of disasters the Lithuanians have never relinquished their love of freedom. their desire for independence. All attempts to extinguish the Lithuanian spirit of liberty will fail. as they have in the past.
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