were well prepared for its task. In Lithuania. for example. thanks to the plantation of a large number of its agents and other subversivesl--under cover of the mutual assistance pact of October 1937 between Russia and Lithuaniathe NKVD worked jointly with the Lithuanian Communist Party in preparation of a 14point classification of categories who would be the prime subjects for extermination and deportation. On November 28. 1940. the Lithuanian Peoples Commissar for the Interior issued an order about the negligence in the accounting system concerning "antiSoviet and socially alien elements." The 14 categories encompassed. in effect. the "alien elements" who composed the entire Lithuanian establishment from both the public and private sectors of Lithuanian life. They were: 1. Members of Russian prerevolutionary political parties (refugees). 2. Members of Lithuanian contemporary political parties (Christian Democrats. Nationalists.
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