Independent Estonia. and Lithuania had ceased to exist. and their inhabitants were enslaved by Soviet agents. Their enslavement was made effective by the summary arrest. Imprisonment and deportation of tens of thousands of prominent citizens in these countries. These arrests and deportations proceeded on a mass scale. and a week before the outbreak of NaziSoviet war on June 21. 1941. largest mass deportation of Baltic peoples took place. exiling many thousand innocent people to forbidding regions of Soviet Russia. To this day not much is known of the sad fate of these peoples. It is most likely that most of them are already dead and others are lingering on still in exile. On the 25th anniversary of the mass deportation of the Lithuanians. Latvians. and Estonians by the Soviet authorities. and the enslavement of more than 5 million Baltic peoples. we all hope for better days for these peoples in the near future.
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