Speaker. this week we in the Congress have marked the observance of the 52d anniversary of the restoration of the Republic of Lithuania on February 16. 1918. Each year the Congress honors our friends of Lithuanian descent in the knowledge that the occasion cannot be a true celebration because of the reign of Communist oppression. Hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians have been killed or deported from their homeland since June 1940 when the Soviet Union seized power. The illegal seizure of power by force of arms against Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia will one day be repaid by the hunger for freedom which exists behind the Iron Curtain.
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