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LETTERS, Page 9Baltic Nationalism
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.
David John Plesic
Miami
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.