Forcefully incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Estonians today are among those peoples who have been systematically denied their very basic human rights of selfdetermination and freedom of expression. With their illegal occupation by the Soviet Union. came a concerted policy in the Baltic States of mass deportation of natives to Siberia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union. supplemented by colonization of these countries with persons of Russian stock. It is estimated that at the rates of immigration which have prevailed in the past. Estonians may be a minority in their own country by 1985. Soviet control of Estonia does not end there. however. as we find the Soviets pursuing an antireligious policy and one which is designed to suppress cultural and ethnic expression as well.
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