By 1940 Lithuania was again incorporated into Russia. Then began the most brutal occupation of their entire history. In Lithuania some 34.000 persons were deported to the Soviet Far East from June 14 to June 21. 1941. The German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. followed by a German occupation. brought a temporary end to the deportations. but in 1944 the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic and there were additional mass deportations. It has been estimated that about 10 percent of the population of Lithuania was deported to Siberia in 1948 and 1949. Supplementing the deportations as a means of changing the ethnic composition of the area and to replace the loss of labor. the Soviets pursued a policy of colonization with persons of Russian stock. The number of Russian settlers in Lithuania in 1959 amounted to about 8.5 percent. as compared to 2 percent before the war. in the capital of Lithuania. Vilinus. native Lithuanians became a minority.
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