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This was accomplished in early 1940 when the three countries were attacked and occupied by the Red army. After arresting and exiling all the leaders and prominent citizens of the countries invaded. the oncefree democratic Republics were annexed to the Soviet Union. The saddest part of this treacherous maneuver was the cruel and inhuman way in which the arrests and deportations of thousands of Baltic nationals were carried out by the Russian officials. The innocent and helpless people were herded into freight cars and carried to distant parts of the Soviet Union. there to remain for a quarter century. After years of suffering. a small percentage of them have found their way to their former homes but most died in exile.