Figure 1.--This photograph was taken in Kiev, dyring the Soviet Union, probably about the mid-1970s. We know that it was taken before 1979 when the photographer immigrated to America. It was a recent photo at that time, taken, I should guess, about 1976. The children from a Kiev kindergarten (about five years old) are all dressed up for a New Year's party wearing party hats (bunny rabbit caps for the girls, a wizzard cap for the boy). Their mothers have dressed them in their very best dress-up clothes--white ruffled dresses for the girls, dark shorts and a white shirt or blouse for the boy. The girls wear long white stockings or white knee socks. The boy wears white long stockings that he seems a bit too big for because they are unusually short, so short that the clasps of his garters are exposed. For some reason he seems to be wiping away a tear.
