Speaker. 25 years ago this day the Red army of Imperial Russia invaded Lithuania and 2 days later invaded Estonia and Latvia for the purpose of imposing Communist puppet regimes upon those nations. These acts of military aggression were committed in violation of solemn treaties of peace. nonaggression. and mutual understanding between the three Baltic States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After the Red army occupied the Baltic States the political commissars of Moscow immediately launched mass deportations in those nations. All the leadership elements in those three nations were subjected to a reign of terror the likes of which had not been seen since the days of Ivan the Terrible. Rump elections under the guns of the Red army paved the way for Moscow to install quisling regimes in Lithuania.
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