What news we do hear is uniformly bad. Because of Soviet policies there has been a considerable change in the composition of the population of Lithuania. During the second Soviet occupation in 1944. some 80.000 Lithuanians fled to Western Germany. and another 60.000 were found in Eastern Germany and deported to Siberia. During the next 2 years an additional 145.000 Lithuanians were deported. In 1949. 60.000 more were deported. Since Stalins death. a revised policy of reuniting Lithuanians with their homeland has permitted about a third of those deported to return home. The rest are believed to have perished in Siberia. The United States continued to recognize the legitimate independent Lithuanian Government which was established on July 27. 1922.
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