Forty years ago on June 14. 1940. the Soviet Union began to execute its policy of expansionism in the Baltic States of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania. and today these small nations remain under the ironfisted control of Soviet totalitarianism. This forcible occupation and incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R.. and the subsequent deportation of hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians. Latvians. and Estonians to Siberian concentration camps remains a constant reminder of the true attitude of the Soviet Union toward basic human rights. Before the conquest of these three nations. there was a short yet progressive period of free government in these lands.
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