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...happened during the first year of World War II, but the story of the Soviet rape of the Baltic states has never been fully and publicly told. Wisconsin's Republican Representative Charles Kersten, chairman of a special House investigating committee, last week began putting on the record one of the grisliest stories of this grisly century...
...historical framework: the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia broke loose from Russia after 1917's Bolshevik Revolution, became thriving little democracies (total population: 6,000,000). In June 1940, Soviet troops, cops and commissars invaded and occupied the three nations. Driven out by the Germans in mid-1941, the Russians returned in 1944. Since then, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians have lived under the Communist heel...
...Finnish exports to Russia in sterling or dollars; 3) reopened the question of Finnish territory captured by the Red army in World War II. Moscow, said Kekkonen, was preparing to let Finnish lumbermen float log rafts down the Saimaa Canal, which connects their inland lakes with the Baltic, a canal which Russia annexed in 1947. Russia's only condition, said Kekkonen, was that Helsinki should "continue to follow a foreign policy of mutual assistance and friendship between the two countries...
...inexhaustible faith, put much of his small fortune into Igor's experiments, and in the end resolutely mortgaged the family home to keep them going. Igor's sixth plane won the highest award at a Moscow aircraft exhibition in 1912. A huge manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane in history?a magnificent affair with a glassed-in cabin, a dining table and an outside observation platform...
...Every country that has been rehabilitated-Japan with its 80-odd million, India, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, European countries-is increasing its production with facilities acquired by the help of our Government. What is going to become of those goods? [Those countries could not absorb their increased production], so they are going to sell in the world markets at any price that will move those goods . . . That means that American goods will be frozen out of those markets, just as they are being frozen out in South America...