The Soviets needed to wipe out any opposition to the new order. Over 665.000 Estonians. Latvians. and Lithuanians were deported to Siberia. The Kremlin settled large numbers of people of Russian stock in the Baltic States to strengthen their control of the area. Widespread bloodshed ensued when the Baltic guerrillas took to the forests to establish a network of armed opposition to the illegal occupiers. More people were killed when the front changed and Nazi Germany invaded her old ally. the Soviet Union. When the Soviets returned the second time in 1944. they were determined to stay and began a brutal plan of collectivizing the countryside. Farmers were forcibly evicted and deported. More troops than ever were brought in to destroy the guerrilla movement. Even so. the partisans continued their struggle until the early 1950s when. isolated by numerous divisions. many in the resistance movement gave up their arms.
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