Mr. Speaker. I would like to take this opportunity to join my colleagues. in commemorating the 40th anniversary of "Genocide Day"-when hundreds of thousands of Lithuanian. Latvian. and Estonian citizens were taken from their homes and deported to the slave labor camps of Siberia and other places in the Soviet Union. Genocide Day is an important one in Baltic history. for it keeps fresh in our mind the tragic fate of the nations of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. It serves to remind us of the despicable treatment of the captive nations and their peoples by the Soviet Union. The Baltic nations were forcibly annexed by the Soviets in 1940. and their genocide began in earnest the following year.
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