The postwar history of Lithuania bears grim testimony to this rejection of forcible incorporation. From 1944 to 1952. antiSoviet partisans struggled for freedom against the Soviet military occupation in protracted guerrilla warfare at a cost of over fifty thousand Lithuanian lives. During Stalins era. over onesixth of the Lithuanian people were deported to Russia and Siberia in an effort to depopulate and subjugate the Lithuanian nation. To this very day. Lithuanians are risking and sacrificing their lives in defiance of the Communist regime. and they continue in their struggle for the right of national selfdetermination and individual religious and political rights.
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