THE VOICE OF INTERNATIONAL LITHUANIA

26 April 2024

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The tragic story of how one third
of Lithuania’s population became
victims of Soviet terror

In June 1941, the first massive arrest and deportation of the Lithuanian population was perpetrated. A cargo of 17.500 people were crammed into cattle cars. Moscow’s instruction often required separation of men from their families: some 4.000 men were separated and transported to concentration camps in the Krasnoyarsk territory while 13.500 women, children and elderly people were transported mostly to Kazakhstan, the Altai Mountains territory, Russia’s republic of Komi, the Tomsk region, and the Arctic zone.

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The tragic story of how one third of Lithuania’s population became victims of Soviet terror

The tragic story of how one third
of Lithuania’s population became
victims of Soviet terror