Mr. President. June 15 Is the 34th annual Baltic States Freedom Commemoration. This commemoration marks the loss of independence for Latvia. Estonia. and Lithuania and the subsequent deportation of many of their citizens at the beginning of the Second World War. 10 Ibid.. at 175 and 176. Between the two world wars. the three Baltic States enjoyed two decades of national independence and selfgovernment. In the early years of independence all three rapidly recovered from the effects of the First World War largely as the result of hard work. thriftiness. and determination. and virtually without loans or foreign aid. Education. literature. and the arts and sciences flourished in a cultural renaissance.
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Characterizing all three groups as hardworking and thrifty.