The dictators in Berlin and Moscow assaulted them from 1939 on and divided the small nations such as Lithuania among themselves. Then the terrible holocaust of the Second World War on the eastern front engulfed them. After the horrors of the Nazi occupation the Lithuanians were subjected to a reimposition of the Soviet regime which destroyed by death and deportation all independent native opposition. Today Lithuania is still one of those nations locked by the brute force of the Red army within the prison of the Soviet state. But we can be certain that the spirit of freedom which burned so long during a previous Russian occupation has not now been put out.
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