DONNELLY. for his sponsorship of House Joint Resolution 201. which designates June 14. 1983. as "Baltic Freedom Day." This issue is of special concern to me because my parents were forced to flee Sovietoccupied Lithuania. This month marks the 43d anniversary of the illegal incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union. It also marks the 42d anniversary of the massive deportation to Siberia of 30.000 members of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. which took place June 1418. 1941. This was the first of many such mass deportations. It is estimated that. during the years of Stalinist occupation. between 1945 and 1951. 340.000 Lithuanians. approximately 10 percent of the present population. were arrested and deported. Since 1953. some of these have been allowed to return to Lithuania. most. however. are believed to have died in labor camps and internal exile. The injustices inflicted on the Baltic people continue today in other forms.
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