Latvia. and Estonia. I join with many of my colleagues in this memorial observance. not to mark that event really. but to recognize a 30year struggle for independence by the Baltic peoples. Some 30.000 Lithuanian freedom fighters have died during constant skirmishes with the Russians that lasted until 1952. A long and valiant effort to regain their freedom was waged despite mass deportation of the Baltic peoples to Siberia. These people have paid a heavy price for their refusal to submit to RussianCommunist domination. Since June 15. 1940. these three nations have lost more than onefourth of their entire population.
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