Lithuania. a player on the Soviet stage. speaking from the Soviet script. requested to be a constituent republic of the U.S.S.R. As a result of this action. many Lithuanians fled their homeland. Countless others were arrested or deported thus noticeably decreasing the population by 45.000. To add to the already intolerable situation imposed by the Russians. 30.000 members of the Lithuanian intellegensi were forcefully deported to Siberia When Soviet forces retreated from a German attack on June 14. 1941. 5.001) political prisoners were executed. Russian aggression murdered the peace and the nonaggression treaty. The fact that Russia committed and continued to commit these dastardly acts created horrendous violations of the United Nations Declaration. the Atlantic Charter. the United Nations Charter. the Convention on the Suppression of Crimes of Genocide. and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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