Konstantinas: \u201cMy childhood passed here, about 80 years ago. I was the youngest of three sons. My parents were farmers. I remember I had no one to hang out with. After elementary school, I got transferred to I\u0161lau\u017eas School. I used to walk about 10 kilometres every day. The horse was harnessed only in case of a snowstorm, but rarely. We would leave and return in the darkness. During the post-war period, we were moved outside the fence, behind that aerial field. We were forced to leave our house and moved into the homestead of deported people. I remember how German prisoners would build houses. We would run around construction with other kids. They had built aerials as well; made of copper, on a wooden pole.
Germans had an orchestra of mixed instruments. There was a very good violinist. He conducted the orchestra. Soldiers and their families spoke and sang Russian and German. Soldiers had a huge house of culture; would screen movies there.\u201d (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Konstantinas: \u201cMy childhood passed here, about 80 years ago. I was the youngest of three sons. My parents were farmers. I remember I had no one to hang out with. After elementary school, I got transferred to I\u0161lau\u017eas School. I used to walk about 10 kilometres every day. The horse was harnessed only in case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"global_cat":[37,28,81,64],"palces_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1675","palces","type-palces","status-publish","hentry","global_cat-rusiskas","global_cat-sovietmetis","global_cat-russian","global_cat-soviet-era"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n