Mr. Speaker. this week we commemorate with sadness the 43d anniversary of the Soviet invasion of the three Baltic Republics. Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania. an event followed by all the usual atrocities of Communist rule. including the deportations and killings of political opponents and the harsh repression that endures to this very day. The Baltic States have not even been allowed to keep the vestiges of sovereignty which have been permitted for the other Sovietcontrolled countries of Eastern Europe. The Baltic nations have been annexed into the Soviet Union. Mr. Speaker. the character of the Soviet Union has not changed.
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