Mr. Speaker. time and time again I have tried to alert this body to the continuing acts of repression. torture. detention without charge and the hideous phenomenon of disappearances in many nations around the world. These acts of madness seem more and more to have become the rule rather than the exception. This month we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the "Baltic Holocaust." It was 1941 when the Soviet regime embarked on its first mass deportation of the peoples of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania. This was designed to Sovietize these three Baltic countries. Herded like cattle into railroad cars. the prisoners were transported to slave labor camps in Siberia to disappear forever in the vast Gulag of the Communist regime.
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