Mr. Speaker. it is with great pleasure that I rise today to join my colleagues in commemorating the 40th anniversary of Genocide Day. I find this day in Baltic history to be a particularly moving one as members of my own family suffered deportation at the hands of the Soviet Union in the early 1940s. Along with over 300.000 other Lithuanians. they were taken from their homes and forcibly sent to Siberia. Many of these people were never to see their beloved homeland again. Lithuania had experienced an all too brief 30 years of independence between the two World Wars.
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