Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Baltic nations in June 1941

Seventy-five years ago on June 1, 1941, 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 the USSR. Fewer than half returned alive – an event that continues to cast a dark shadow on these countries and … Continue reading Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Baltic nations in June 1941