Mr. Speaker. today is Genocide Day. the 34th anniversary of the mass deportation of people from Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania to slave labor camps in Siberia and other sections of the Soviet Union. This historic action of Communist brutality occurred in 1941. shortly before Nazi armed forces invaded its previous ally. Communist Russia. The three Baltic republics had enjoyed a shortlived freedom. having secured their independence shortly after the end of World War I. The territory of the three small countries was invaded first by Soviet troops and then by Nazi forces. Toward the end of World War IE when Soviet troops reoccupied the Baltic States. the U.S.S.R illegally incorporated these three nations into its structure. an action which our Government has never recognized.
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