November 2, 2013

An Early Model


Near Vilnius, Lithuania, about 1934. Kaunas Nina's cousin has a pedal car.

Thanks to Kaunas Nina's daughter—my Kaunas Cousin—for making this photo available to us.

3 comments:

edutcher said...

I'll take a guess and say the family was fairly affluent (although I don't think that was allowed in Stalinist Russia).

Irene said...

Lithuania was not under Soviet control during this time. It was independent between 1918 and 1940. The Soviets controlled it for a year after that, then the Germans. The Soviets secured the country again in 1944.

edutcher said...

My history of the Eastern Front is a little hazy, but, now that you mention it, I do remember.

My bad.