Your article referring to my neighboring country Lithuania, “Small nation played large role in breakup of the Soviet Union” (News, March 12), was as interesting as it was factual.
The writer, unfortunately, could not resist taking a customary swipe at Lithuania, just as it is frequently done to Latvia and Estonia, by stating that Nazis killed Jews in Lithuania, with sometimes “eager” assistance of Lithuanians.
It is pointless to debate the validity of these absurd assertions. It is astounding, however, never to see the eagerness described with which the KGB and its predecessor, NKVD, tortured, killed and deported Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians in numbers totaling up to one-third of their populations.
There was another Holocaust–Stalin’s–that claimed more than 40 million victims, many of whom were of Jewish faith.
