After the Nazis and Soviets smashed Poland in September of 1939. the Kremlin moved troops into the Baltic Republics and annexed them in June of 1940. The sufferings inflicted on the Baltic countries by the Soviet occupant surpass in magnitude anything they had been subjected to before. Hundreds of thousands of Estonians. Latvians. and Lithuanians were systematically exterminated. tortured. deported to slavelabor camps and prisons in Russia. A policy of colonialization. succeeded terror and genocide. in an effort to destroy the identity of these peoples and submerge them in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Thousands of Russians have been moved to the Baltic States.
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