Today. in spite of supposed Soviet concern for selfdetermination. they continue to carry on a ruthless program of "Sovietization" in the Baltic States. We need only recall that these states were the first victims of the cynical NaziSoviet nonaggression pact of 1939. The deportations of the Baltic peoples to Stalins forced labor camps started in 1940. A conservative estimate would place the number of people so deported at 100.000. during the period 194041. After World War II. the repressions were much worse. From Latvia alone. more than 100.000 people were deported. However. these people did not sit idly by and await their destruction. They fought back from the farms. fields. and woods of their native lands.
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