MEPs commemorated the 1941 deportations from the Baltic states during a statement from president European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek on 6 June 2011.
14 June marks the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of thousands of people who were exiled to Siberia during Soviet rule.
More than 30,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were sent to prison camps under the orders of Joseph Stalin....
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