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[eleny]

27. My grandpa fled when he worried about being concripted around 1913

One of his brothers was yanked into the Russian army and never came back home. So gramps got out early and brought grandma and dad over later on.

It was pretty awful, as you've learned. I had relatives marched out of their homes and shot dead in the 50s. I remember the day when the letter arrived telling grandma how certain men in the family "all died yesterday". The details trickled out after that. So I can see why Yuri's dad was hunted even after being forced into the army. It's tragic.

I have many mixed feelings, though, since Lithuania was very antisemitic. But that's another story. Now, I hear that many can be pretty homophobic. And "many" doesn't take much in these tiny countries. But that's another story, too.

The Baltic geography always put them in the crosshairs.