Lithuanians are no strangers to foreign oppressors and totalitarians. After finally winning independence at the end of the Great War, they had barely two decades of self-rule before being invaded by the Soviets in 1939. The Nazis then overran the nation in 1941, murdering more than 100,000 Jews during their occupation, before the Soviets reclaimed the country.
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