Lithuanians throughout the world remember the tragic June days of June 15. 1940. and June 1418. 1941. as the dates when the Soviet Union invaded the Baltic States of Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania. a criminal act that has yet to be redressed. On these dates. the Soviet Union rounded up 34.260 men. women. and children and herded them into boxcars and had them deported to Siberia. Nearly 10 percent of the Lithuanian population was either murdered or deported and their country was destroyed in what has proven to be one of the worst acts of genocide in this century. This day of sadness and moral indignation should have been a lesson for us all. Unfortunately. it was not.
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