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- LETTERS, Page 8Russian Minority
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- Fifty years ago, Stalin's armies occupied and forcibly
- incorporated into the Soviet Union the independent Republic of
- Estonia (WORLD, Sept. 25). Since then, Estonians have had to endure
- brutal deportation to Siberian labor camps, where many died, and
- an influx of Russian laborers in numbers that threaten to render
- Estonians a minority in their own land. But when the Estonians are
- finally given a chance to express their anger and demand a
- restoration of what is rightfully theirs, the Russians wail about
- discrimination and the deprivation of their "rights." What gall!
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- Raivo A. Balciunas
- Chicago