However. on the eve of the Second World War. a secret agreement was signed between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia which gave the Soviets a free hand to invade and occupy Lithuania and the other Baltic States of Latvia and Estonia. The world knows well the atrocities committed by the Soviets In their quest to subjugate the people of Lithuania. Stalinist policies of forced collectivization and national terror resulted In the deportation of more 300.000 to the wastelands of Siberia. The entire infrastructure of Lithuania and the other Baltic States was devastated and private property confiscated. No one was spared.
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