Mr. President. June 14 has been selected as the day to observe Baltic Freedom Day. On this day in 1941. the Soviet Government initiated mass deportations of such magnitude that 48.000 Estonians. Latvians. and Lithuanians were wrenched from their homelands. The terror that reigned during the night and the suffering and anguish that these families endured compel us to remember and honor the Baltic peoples today. Two years earlier. in 1939. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had signed the notorious MolotovRibbentrop Pact which paved the way for a Russian invasion of the Baltic nations. In a secret amendment to the pact. the nations of Estonia.
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