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(Latvian Public Broadcasting) On June 14 Latvia commemorates the thousands of citizens deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities 80 years ago - many of whom never came back. Latvian President Egils Levits, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda released a joint video statement in remembrance of one of the darkest days in the history of the Baltic States, the text version of which is reproduced below. On this day 80 years ago, Soviet forces occupying Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania carried out a mass deportation. Tens of thousands of people, including the elderly and children, were torn from their homes and placed in cattle trucks for the long journey to Siberia. Many died. Some returned, to broken lives. More deportations followed. Almost every family in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania has a story to tell.

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