A very moving film shown here at Heritage this week, Red Terror on the Amber Coast, made an important point about the Soviet need to destroy individualism in order to impose collectivization on the Lithuanian peasants. The abolition of the individual was necessary for the communist Utopia. The people of Lithuania had this forced upon them, but even in Russia and even among the true believers this individuality had to be extinguished. The people were sapped of their identities along with their property in order that they would submit to …
