Latvia. and Estonia and to lend my support for declaring June 14. 1984. Baltic Freedom Day. The once independent Baltic States were forcibly taken over by the Soviet Union in 1940. Terrorized by the regime of Joseph Stalin. the people of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia were denied basic religious and social freedoms. In order to eliminate dissent. the Soviet Union deported over 600.000 people of the Baltic States from their homeland to gulags in Siberia and elsewhere. Due to the harsh and inhuman treatment by the Soviet Union. many of them perished. Those that survived were forced to carry on an oppressed existence designed to compromise their heritage.
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