Horror remembered: Lithuania honours deportees to Siberia

A man lays flowers on rusty tracks near old wagons at the Naujoji Vilnia railway station in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuania yesterday marked the mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation. Deportation started on June 14, 1941, where some 280,000 people were deported to Siberian gulags, a year after

Soviet troops had occupied Lithuania.

The deportations came just days before the invasion of Russia and the Baltic states by Germany.