Mr. Speaker. this month. Americans of Estonian. Latvian. and Lithuanian descent will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Baltic Holocaust. The days of June 14 and 15 marked the beginning of a mass deportation effort conducted in the Baltic States 40 years ago by the Soviet regime. In the wake of this campaign of terror. virtually no Baltic family was left untouched by the tragedy. Occupation and genocide are still being repeated by the U.S.S.R. with the most recent example being in Afghanistan. Indeed. during its entire 63 years in power. Communist Russia has remained an ideologically dogmatic. politically repressive state which has exploited every opportunity to control its weaker neighbors.
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