April 1, 2014

Seven Days


Kaunas, Lithuania, June 8, 1940. The girls in Mom's high-school class sat for this photo seven days before the Soviets launched their first occupation of Lithuania. Mom is in the second row, third from right.

3 comments:

edutcher said...

Yes, you can pick her out.

PS Current events make us wonder if this is the tragedy or the farce part.

Irene said...

I wonder if Finland wishes it were in NATO.

edutcher said...

They had something of a military genius in charge of the army back then.

Too much to hope they've got another.