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@mekkaokereke @professorhank The absolute numbers in the US are higher because the population is larger — ~330 million of whom around 45 – 50 million are black. Meanwhile there's around 3 million Lithuanians both in Lithuania itself, and the diaspora.

And the number killed, forcibly deported, and imprisoned during the early years of the Soviet Russian occupation was around 300,000. So that's basically one-in-10 people from an occupied ethnic group:

"On June 14, 1941, mass arrests and deportations of Lithuanians to inner parts of the Soviet Union and Siberia began.

"According to the data of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, the Soviets deported, killed and imprisoned about 23,000 people during the first occupation. In total, about 130,000 people were deported from Lithuania by 1953, and another 156,000 Lithuanians were imprisoned."

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2297019/lithuania-commemorates-victims-of-soviet-deportations-on-day-of-mourning-and-hope

That's excluding a host of other atrocities (including mass rapes, mass relocation of ethnic Russians into Lithuania and other occupied countries, whole cities levelled, etc) by the Russians.

That's just the initial stages of the 1941 occupation.

That doesn't include anything that happened later, including in the aftermath of the 1972 uprisings...

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