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"Mr President, I believe that the success of the European Union depends not just on economic matters, but on our awareness of each other. I am referring to our understanding of historical experiences.
Sixty-three years ago, from 25 to 28 March, the Soviet occupiers in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia carried out a carefully planned mass deportation operation. In a few days, approximately 95 000 people from the three Baltic States were exiled to Siberia, and 75% of them were women and children.
At that time in 1949, while Europe was recovering from the Second World War and building a new life for itself, in another part of Europe atrocities and mass deportations were being carried out, and people were being persecuted and imprisoned. The aim was to destroy those people who were brave enough to fight the system of terror that was the Soviet Union.
I am pleased that today in the European Parliament we had the opportunity to mention this event and I very much believe that it is extremely important to support programmes that fund schemes to raise awareness of each other’s histories."@en1
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