In the summer of 1944, the Red Army began its liberation of the Baltic States. Like the other nations of Eastern Europe, the Baltics knew that in the Soviet lexicon liberation was a euphemism for occupation. Following in the wake of the army, the conscription gangs arrived and began gathering up young men to be […]
Free: What’s in the Suitcase?
Jennifer has made me a suggestion; pack two suitcases with ladies’ underwear & take them to Eastern Europe. The time is during the decadent West of the sixties & the strange world behind the Iron Curtain. Plus the lady whose husband is serving ten years in a political prison; & a trip to Istanbul carrying […]