Kharazov. a Russian. attacked "malicious antiSoviet clerical elements." As with the other Baltic states. thousands of Lithuanians were exiled to Siberia and Central Asia after the Stalinist takeover In 1940. One million Lithuanians disappeared between 1940 and 1959. And from 1944 to 1953. when there was strong opposition to the return of Soviet power. an estimated 300.000 were killed or exiled. Only 35.000 returned from exile after Stalins death. There are Lithuanian nationalists In eastern exile and labor camps now. too. A Chronicle earlier last year reported that a group of students and young professionals had been accused by the KGB of contacting deportees and prisoners and also with meeting with nationalist groups in Georgia and Armenia. two other republics where antiSoviet and antiRussian feelings run high.
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