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During the Berlin blockade of 1948, the U.S. supplied the 2 million citizens of Berlin by landing cargo planes every 53 seconds.
During the Lithuanian blockade of 1990, the U.S. has turned a blind eye to the 4 million people being squeezed by the Soviets. Not a single shipment of U.S. humanitarian aid has been sent to Lithuania.
In a Kaunas hospital last month, I met a 40-year-old man who had been born on a boxcar headed for Siberia. Has he survived that ordeal and returned to his homeland only to die from the medicine shortages resulting from Gorbachev`s embargo?
The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1940 is being succeeded by the Gorbachev-Bush Pact of 1990 in trading off Lithuanian freedoms for Big Power concessions.
