In 1940 all three Baltic republics were forcibly annexed to the Soviet Union and many hundreds of thousands of their inhabitants were uprooted from their homes. These innocent and helpless victims of the Soviet Unions treacherous seizure in 1940 are still suffering in some distant and desolate corner of the Soviet prison empire. Since then. for nearly 25 years. the free world has heard practically nothing about these unhappy deportees except bits of information obtained from those few who have had the extraordinary luck to escape. And the fate of some 5 million Estonians. Latvians. and Lithuanians in their homeland has not been an enviable one. Even though they were not deported. they also suffered much privation and hardship during the war. and are still suffering under the unrelenting tyranny of Soviet communism. We have even heard that the native population of the coastal areas of these countries were moved to the interior in order to settle Asiatic peoples there. Outrageous and almost inhuman as this may sound. yet the deliberate policy of the Soviet Union seems to be to colonize these frontiers exposed to the West with peoples who have had no contact with the West. We in the free world are fully cognizant of these heartbreaking facts. We are well aware of the sad fate that befell to those deportees and of the unbelievable lot of those who are liviiig in the three Baltic countries today. I sympathize wholeheartedly with their lot. and on the 25th anniversary observance of their loss of freedom and independence. I ardently hope for a quick liberation of these peoples from Communist tyranny.
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