Inc. in praying for the day when we will again see a free Lithuania. The resolution follows: RzsOLUTrION Lithuanian Americans of Cicero. Illinois. assembled June 13. 1982 To commemorate and protest the deaths by torture and massacre. and the mass deportations of Lithuanians since June 15. 1940. when Soviet Russia according to the MolotovRibbentropp secret agreement occupied Three independent Baltic States: Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania. To commemorate the ruthless. inhuman deportation without any trial of more than forty thousand Lithuanians in a single night of June 14. 1941. To commemorate the courageous Lithuanian Freedom Fighters who lived for years in forest pillboxes and lost thirty thousand lives while fighting for Lithuanias freedom against huge numbers of Soviet Russian forces. To commemorate those who in protest of continued oppression immolated themselves. like the young college student Romas Kalanta who shouted "Freedom for Lithuania" while engulfed in flames.
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