ABSTRACT
During the Russian occupation the Red Army garrison set up a field hospital in the yard of the Ukrainian church. Many local young men fell for the propaganda and its promise of utopia. But they lost their lives when they joined or were drafted into the Red Army. During the summer the Russians brought several truckloads of the most delicious melons to Busk. Rumors were that they came from Georgia or some other southern lands of Great Russia. In the school the Russians introduced singing and dancing, as well as competitions in them. Around the time the Red Army entered Busk, in September 1939, a middle-aged couple, who were distant relatives from western Poland fleeing from the Germans, came to live with us. But they were deported to Russia and died in Siberia.
