Lithuanians also witnessed the introduction of the 8hour day and such social legislation as a labor control law. Lithuanian literature. opera and other music also flourished. Lithuanias era of progress ceased when the Soviet army occupied the country during World War ]a and declared it to be a constituent republic of the U.S.S.R. in August 1940. During this occupation Lithuania suffered the loss of an estimated 45.000 people who fled or were arrested or deported. Less than a year later. Nazi forces overran Lithuania. making the country one of the first to experience the aggression of both Stalin and Hitler.
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