sentences:  Tyrmand was on vacation in Warsaw when the War broke out, so he interrupted studies and did some smuggling jobs in the area of the Western Bug helping people to cross the from Nazi Germany to the Bolshevik Russia.Subsequently, Tyrmand managed to flee to Vilnius as a refugee, and after the Russian occupation of 1940, he began working with local media, most notably with Prawda Komsomolska, a Soviet propaganda medium.During this period he met the Polish journalist Andrzej Miłosz (brother of the Polish writer Czesław Miłosz).