Well over a million people of Lithuanian background live in the United States. many thousands of them in Illinois. Many of them came to America after their native land had been occupied by the Soviet Union. Thousands fled from Lithuania to other lands and others have been sent to Siberia and elsewhere by the tyrants in the Kremlin. As a result of migrations. deportations. and repopulation from other sections of the Soviet Union. over half of the people now living in Lithuania are unable to speak Lithuanian. What makes this so tragic is that Lithuanian is the oldest living language in all Europe. Not only their language. but their national and cultural heritage face extinction.
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