Rigged elections took place in which a oneslate choice was presented to the people. Through terror and intimidation these Lithuanian people were forced to cast their near 100 percent vote for the Ccmmunists or those doing their bidding. Forthwith a new government was established that called upon the Soviet Union to take Lithuania into the U.S.S.R. as a constituent republic. From then on. the process of direct Sovietization took place. All political opposition was destroyed or silenced through murder. deportation. or intimidation. The Soviet state structure was imposed upon the country and the Soviet Constitultion adopted. All cultural and religious activities were reordered to serve the ends of communism.
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