Through Soviet military occupation and unlawful Communist expropriation they have lost their personal property and the wealth created by industrious Estonians during many generations. Thousands of AmericanEstonians who have been lucky enough to find refuge in this country. have personally suffered from Communist cruelty and terror. Most of them have lost members of their families and close relatives through arrests. deportations to Siberian slave labor camps or by outright murder. committed by the Communist oppressors. For 30 years now the expropriation. pauperization. slave labor. suppression of basic human rights and freedom. Russification. terror. mass deportations and murders have been the mark of the Soviet occupation in Estonia and the other Baltic States of Latvia and Lithuania. The Estonian people have never lost hope to regain their freedom and independence and we Americans salute them for their hope. In the years past we have often heard the United States and other Western countries criticized by Communists for practicing colonialism.
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