It is especially fitting since the House on Monday passed Senate Joint Resolution 201 designating June 14 as "Baltic Freedom Day." The United States has never recognized the Soviet incorporation of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. June 14 is a very important date in Baltic history for it was on that day in 1940 that thousands of people from the three Baltic States were forcibly deported to the Soviet Union and Soviet citizens were relocated into the Baltic States in order to "Russify" those States. All the repressive measures continue today but the Soviets have not succeeded in destroying the independent spirit of the Bats. We must stress continually that the United States recognizes the "desire and the right of the people of Lithuania.
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