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- LETTERS, Page 9Baltic Nationalism
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- The once free Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian nations have
- been nearly destroyed during 50 years of overt and covert force
- wielded in the effort to create a Soviet Union. They are
- determined to be independent again (WORLD, Aug. 21). If the
- Baltic states are made free, then one of the great violations
- of democracy in the 20th century will be put right.
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- David John Plesic Miami
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- The ceremony shown in the photograph of Lithuanians placing
- flowers and candles on the railroad tracks took place June 14.
- This was a day of mourning to commemorate the victims whom the
- Soviets began deporting on that day in 1941. The deportations
- lasted until 1952. About 10% of the Lithuanian population --some
- 300,000 men, women and children -- was shipped out in cattle
- cars to face slow death in Siberia or Gulag camps. After
- Stalin's death, only a fraction returned.
-
- Rimvydas J. Sidrys Streator, Ill.
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