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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Wednesday 15 June. [Ukrainian sources]

75th anniversary of mass deportations from Lithuania.





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estNATO ‏@estNATO  14 июн.
Today, 75 years ago Soviet KGB deported 10.000 #Estonians to #GULAG in one day. We will remember and never forget!
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Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/06/14/stalins-deportation-of-baltic-peoples-in-june-1941-remembered/
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians from their occupied lands to the interior of USSR from which fewer than half returned alive, an event that continues to cast a dark shadow on these countries and their relations with Moscow.

The deportation from the three occupied Baltic countries of more than 40,000 people was the first mass action of its kind following Stalin’s Anschluss of those countries as a result of the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that made the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany allies....