Yet. the Soviet invasion. during World War II. affected Lithuanian culture severely. Today. the citizens of that beleaguered and downtrodden state possess almost no civil and political rights and are restricted to only the most basic privileges and rights. A quarter of the population has been forced to flee or were deported and exiled and subsequently were repopulated to other areas of the Soviet Union such as Siberia and elsewhere. Yet the saddest fact of all remains that the Lithuanian language. the oldest living language in Europe. is spoken only by half of the citizens and now faces extinction along with the entire Lithuanian culture as a result of the iron fisted Soviet policy that prohibits religious and cultural affairs. Mr.
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