Even though we can point to fresh instances of Soviet aggression. our indignation over earlier Soviet acts of violence against sovereign peoples must grow. not diminish. with time. The tragic June anniversaries teach a bitter lesson about the nature of the Soviet regime. But. the Estonian. Latvian and Lithuanian peoples teach the West another kind of lessona lesson of courage and dignity which has survived 41 years of oppression. In 1941. the Soviet Government tried physically to obliterate resistance in the Baltic countries to the forcible annexations by means of mass deportation. For more than four decades. Moscow has attempted to culturally and linguistically russify and "sovietize" the Baltic peoples.
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