Mr. Speaker. today Lithuanians throughout the free world will join in the mournful observance of the forced and illegal incorporation of the Republic of Lithuania into the Soviet Union and the subsequent mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians to Siberian concentration camps. June 15. 1940. and June 1418. 1941. are known to Lithuanians as the "Terrible June Days." For on June 15. 1940. the Soviet Union criminally invaded and occupied Lithuania and on June 1418. 1941. in a most despicable act. the Soviets deported 34.260 Lithuanians to concentration camps in the depths of Russia and Siberia. The terror and brutality continued throughout the decade as the Soviets continued to practice mass deportation and murder in an effort to dominate Lithuania. Yet Lithuanians are an extraordinarily strong and proud people who will never forget the "Terrible June Days" and the decades of terror. Today. the Soviet Union employs Russification policies in an effort to absorb Lithuania into its imperialistic empire.
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