A puppet parliament was illegally elected. its 80 members having been picked by the Communist Party to confirm decisions already made in Moscow. and it began its sessions on July 21. 1940. Soviet troops and tanks ringed the Parliament Building. The resignation of President Pats. who was already a prisoner of the Russians. was accepted. Estonia was duly admitted to the U.S.S.R. on August 6. 1940. The usual murders and arrests and robberies took place. About 40.000 were sent to slavelabor camps and about 150.000 were deported to Russia. So the Russian Bear swallowed up another free people. Lithuania: Lithuania is neither Slavic nor German in language or race.
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