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Figure 1.-- . |
The rejuvenated Red Army pushed back into Lithuania (1944). A major Wehrmacht force was cut off in Kurzeme (Courland). The Soviets Back in control the Soviets renewed the arrests and deportations. About 350,000 Lithuanians were deported in deplorable conditions. The arrests and deportations (1940-41) had targeted groups that might harbor anti-Soviet attiutudes. With the deportations beginning after the Soviets had reestablished control were aimed at changing the
ethnic ballance in Lithuania. The goal was to Russify Lithuania. Many did not survive. The Western Allies involved in the contentious issue of Poland. The future of Lithuania and the other Baltics was not discussed at either the Yalta or the Potsdam Conferences. While the Western Allies did not raise the issue of the Baltics
which had been annexed, The United Stastes refussed to formally recognize that annexation.
The rejuvenated Red Army pushed back into Lithuania (1944). A major Wehrmacht force was cut off in Kurzeme (Courland).
The Soviets Back in control the Soviets renewed the arrests. Security forces had a wide range of coersive measures which could be employed on those arrested. Until 1938, permission was needed to torture an individual. It was easy to obtain, but was necessary. This requitrement was suspended for a brief time, but reimposed in 1939. There was an exception for certain categories of pridsoners. Here the most importsant were the nationaslist movements, especially the Lithuanians and Ukranians. [Solzhenitsyn, pp. 99-100.]
The Soviets also resumed deportations. About 350,000 Lithuanians were deported in deplorable conditions. The arrests and deportations (1940-41) had targeted groups that might harbor anti-Soviet attiutudes. With the deportations beginning after the Soviets had reestablished control were aimed at changing the
ethnic ballance in Lithuania. The goal was to Russify Lithuania. Many did not survive. The Western Allies involved in the contentious issue of Poland.
The future of Lithuania and the other Baltics was not discussed at either the Yalta or the Potsdam Conferences. While the Western Allies did not raise the issue of the Baltics
which had been annexed, The United Stastes refussed to formally recognize that annexation.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Harper & Row: New York, 1973), 660p.
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