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“It just came to our attention then. This day also sounds like a serious warning: it seems that such atrocities may have taken place so long ago, eighty years ago, but we see what is happening beyond our borders: the lack of humanity, the destruction of our people just because they think differently, it turns out can be today. The worst thing is that cruel historical lessons are not learned and that freedom and humanity must be fought every day, “said President D. Grybauskaitė.
At the monument to the suffering of exile, the president laid flowers and thanked the people of Lapland for the preserved testimonies of the Soviet genocide, for the power of the spirit of the deportees, which they share with all of us and with the world.
Due to the deportations that began 80 years ago, Lithuania lost more than a quarter of a million bright and hardworking people who loved their country.
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