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Sandbar. In the Baltic, after very carefully checking some radar observations, Swedish Navy men dropped grappling irons, gingerly hauled up a case of fine old brandy...
However, I don't know what the conditions are now under the Bolshevik occupation. There are rumors that the beaches are declared prohibited military zones, in order to eliminate flight by the Baltic Sea. Even fishing boats are watched carefully by escorting speedboats supplied during the war to the Bolsheviks under Lend-Lease. I don't think that at present there is any bathing at the Baltic Riviera, drenched with blood. Who could enjoy...
...should like some information. In the April 14 issue, you stated that the Baltic people used to go swimming along the beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude-"the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time...
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forced, at the point of Red Army guns, to join the Soviet Union in 1940. Ever since then, Russia's westward window on the Baltic Sea has been tightly shuttered.* Said one Lithuanian recently: "We don't speak of the Iron Curtain, as that is not a strong enough expression. Our country lies behind the Steel Curtain." From refugees' reports, letters, rumors and official Soviet decrees, a picture of life behind the Steel Curtain can be pieced together...
...Vorkuta Is the Name." Before the Steel Curtain descended, the Baltic people were known to the world as a highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted...