Latvia. and Lithuania. and ever since. the history of that region has been scarred by that tragic experience. The Soviets were bent on the systematic destruction of these three states and demanded their complete subservience. In order to insure the success of their objectives. the Soviets ordered massive deportations and executions which resulted in the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent people. In a few short months. the death toll exceeded 100.000. and yet. the Soviet effort to bend the will of the Baltic people to communism did not slacken. Inhabitants of entire villagesincluding men. women. and even little childrenwere rounded up. herded together under miserably overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. and shipped on trains east to Siberia.
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