Mr. Speaker. I welcome this opportunity to join my colleagues in observing and discussing the 25th anniversary of the illegal seizure of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union. Mass deportations. suppression of basic rights. and Russification has been imposed on the peoples of Lithuania. Estonia. and Latvia. And yet. regrettably. large segments of the world are unaware that this has even taken place. Indifference to their plight extends to much of the free world. Thus. they are forgotten people to too many. Nevertheless. they refuse to be made over in a single generation. or in several generations. Despite enormous handicaps. sparks of culture. language and religion are maintained.
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