Americans focused their attention on Hitlers "New Order." then in rapture over Frances capitulation. Hardly noticed at all were the columns of Soviet troops knifing through the Lithuanian Republic. a thrust planned a year in advance. Latvia and Estonia would share the same fate shortly. Before seizing Lithuania. the Russian secret police had prepared its dreadful lists of persons who would have to be deported or killed to reduce the threat to the Soviet domination. The pattern was a familiar onethe neutralization or elimination of those who possessed authority or influence and the potential to employ it. Thus. government ministers. parliamentarians. magistrates. and law enforcement officials felt the brunt of Russian brutality.
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