Mr. Speaker. this week we mark two sad and tragic anniversaries in history. They are the 30th anniversary of the first mass deportation from the States on June 14. 1941. and the 31st anniversary of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania on June 15. 1942. The history of the Baltic nations has been one long tragic struggle against czarist and Soviet designs to secure outlets on the Baltic Sea. It was not until the close of World War I. that these courageous people through determination and sacrifice were rewarded with independence. In 1920. Estonia. Lithuania. and Latvia signed peace treaties with the Soviet Union. in which the Soviet Union voluntarily and forever renounced all sovereign rights over the people and territory of the Baltic States.
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