Lithuania. as well as Estonia and Latvia. suffered the consequences of the deal between the Nazi and Communist governments to divide Europe between them. The Soviet Union invaded the Baltic States with no provocation. unless It was that despotism cannot tolerate three small democracies thriving at its very gatesand with no justification. unless brute force serves as its own justification. One year later. again in June. the Russian Communists began mass deportation of Baltic peoples. More than 150.000 men. women. and children disappeared into Soviet slave labor camps. In that same month and year. when the Nazi and Communist governments had a falling out and the Communists departed. there was a 6week interregnum wherein the Lithuanian people restored their independent institutions.
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