Ka cika wannan jumlar: A watan Yuni na shekara ta 1940, ƙasar Lithuania ta shiga hannun Soviet Union. Soviets sun gabatar da tsauraran manufofi na sovietization, gami da mallakar manyan kamfanoni, mallakar ƙasa, da ƙasa. An tsananta wa masu adawa da kwaminisanci da sabon tsarin mulki: kimanin 6,600 aka daure su a matsayin "maƙiyan mutane" da kuma wasu 17,600
aka kore shi zuwa Siberia. An sake tsara Sojojin Lithuania a cikin Rundunar Sojoji ta 29 (179th Rifle da 184th Rifle Divisions) na Red Army. Fiye da jami'an Lithuania 500 sun yi ritaya kuma 87 sun shiga kurkuku.