From John Guzlowski’s Lightning and Ashes: The Men From the East Were Terrible

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. It came 2 weeks after the Nazis invaded.

70 years ago today the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east and divided up the country with the Nazis. In some places in Poland, they light candles and put them in the windows to remember the dead and the suffering of the living during that time.

My mother was living west of Lvov in eastern Poland when the Russians invaded…

Tonight in Danville, Virginia, where I live, I will light a candle.