Thirty years ago this month. 30.000 members of Lithuanias intelligensia were thrown into railroad cars and transported under severe conditions to the Arctic wastelands of the Soviet Union. Many other political prisoners were executed on the spot. Later in 1941. after the German invasion of Russia. the Jewish population of Lithuania was almost completely exterminated by the occupying Nazis. The Soviets returned with a vengeance in 1945. and within a year deported 145.000 brave Lithuanians from their homeland. Further Communist torment followed in 1949 when 60.000 Baltics were exiled to Siberia. The toll of this 9year policy of genocide and coercion was of tragic proportion. as the Communist heel of tyranny and repression attemtped to crush out all forms of active resistance.
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