On August 3. 1940. a "day of infamy" for the Lithuanian people. Lithuania was declared under Russian coercion to be a constitutent Communist Republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lithuania gallantly resisted the overwhelming hordes of Russian and Nazi invaders. During the first Soviet occupation. Lithuania suffered the loss of about 45.000 of its people in fierce resistance to its Soviet captors. Some 30.000 Lithuanians were deported to Siberia on the night of June 14. 1941. and 5.000 Lithuanian political prisoners were executed when the Soviet forces hastily retreated under Nazi attack. Repeating the history of the First World War. German occupation again replaced Russian occupation.
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