In all these difficult tasks they made great strides. and in the ensuing two decades Lithuania became a prosperous. productive country. The Lithuanians at last enjoyed the rewards of their own industrious efforts and the security of being free people. � Then came the turmoil of the Second World War. That war swept away all their achievements. robbing them of their hardwon freedom. Their country was invaded by the Red army and then made part of the Soviet Union in 1940. Those who dared to resist were executed or deported to slave labor camps in Siberia. Today the Lithuanians are prisoners in their own homeland. They still resist Soviet rule in an unending fight for freedom.
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