It was on June 15. 1940. when the Soviet Union. in connivance with Nazi Germany. sent its Red army hordes into the three defenseless states. unseated their legitimate Governments elected by the people. converted them into colonies of the Soviet Empire. and has kept them subjugated ever since. This was the beginning of the Kremlins penetration into Europe. which subsequently led to the spread of Communist domination over all of Eastern Europe and parts of central Europe. During the past 25 years the peoples of the three Baltic States were subjected to extermination and deportation of hundreds of thousands who were sent to slave labor camps. There was continued suppression of religious life in the three countries. the denial of basic human rights. and a systematic policy of Russification aimed to stamp out all cultural life associated with the heritages of the Baltic peoples. In the United States we have many hundreds of thousands of people of Lithuanian.
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