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²⁹ See Senn, Alfred Erich and Motulaite, Violeta, ‘The Lithuanian Concept of Statehood’, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 21, no. 2 (1993), 25–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar For an example of this problem see the discussion of language in Vzaimovliianie i vzaimoobogashchenie iazykov narodov SSSR (Moscow: Nauka, 1987). Baltic philologists have been working determinedly to eliminate Russianisms from their native languages.

³⁰ See Lietuvos kov ir kančių istorija, I: Lietuvos gyventojų tremimai, 1941, 1945‐1652. Dokumentų rinkinys (Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1994).

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