Days before mock elections made a mockery of all she had tried to accomplish. Days before 50.000 of her people gave their lives in 8 years of armed. patriotic resistance. Days before the Soviet rulers deported every sixth Lithuanian to distant parts of its empire. or to the concentration campswhere many died. And on this. the 54th Anniversary of Lithuanias Declaration of Independence. and the 721st anniversary of the formation of the Lithuanian State. the people of Lithuania continue their struggle for rights inherently theirs. Ash Wednesday. 1972. finds the Russian State vigorously attacking religious beliefs and practices in Lithuania through antireligious propagandathus denying churches the freedom to propagate their faith.
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