Secret clauses of the agreement "gave" Lithuania. as well as the other Baltic States. to the Soviets. It mattered little to Hitler and Ribbentrop that Lithuania. a sovereign nation. was not theirs to give. and even less to the Soviets that it was not theirs to receive. for Soviet troops invaded the country a year later. Occupation followed: People were deported. others shot. Such things get overlooked when they occur during the greatest spree of bloodletting mankind has ever unleashed on itself. I do hope. however. that we in the United States. as well as the rest of the world. do not forget the legitimate Lithuanian nation that existed before the 1940s. and continues to exist even today under the illegal rule of the Soviets.
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