Almost immediately the familiar pattern was repeated as Communist Party sponsored electionsthere were no other candidatesproduced a "Peoples Diet" that voted for Lithuanias immediate incorporation into the Soviet Union. Through brutal military and political tactics. the proud people of Lithuania found themselves under a puppet government and Soviet control. In a period of 3 days during July 1940. some 35.000 Lithuanians were arrested and deported to Siberia. never to be heard from again. Although the period 194144 saw Lithuania occupied by the Germans and resisting both invaders. the nations recent history has been tragic. President Gerald R. Fordwhen he was House minority leader in 1970gave an account of the suffering Lithuania has endured: This [invasion] was an act of infamy which must never be acceded to by the Lithuanians themselves or by any freedomloving people of the Earth I * What many Americans do not know is that more than 400.000 Lithuanians were swallowed up in Russian and Siberian slave labor camps through mass deportations between 1941 and 1950. ripped from their homes by Soviet terroristsSoviet murderers. What many Americans do not know is that about 30.000 Lithuanian freedom fighters were killed In guerrilla warfare. resisting Soviet occupation * * *. Mr.
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