It's a story full of hope among a sea of despair, one involving one of Europe's smallest yet proudest countries.

With thousands of refugees currently awaiting their fate at the periphery of Europe's borders, hoping to reach Germany, the United Kingdom or Sweden, at least one man was setting his sights on the Baltic nation of Lithuania.

Last week, American journalist Josh Friedman of the Freeman Post took a trip to the Greece-Macedonian border to interview refugees and collect stories of those stuck there.

It was outside Idomeni, Greece that he met an Afghan refugee named Basir Yousofy, who had been in the camp for over a month. What made Basir's story unlike so many others was his surprisingly well-spoken Lithuanian he learned in his native land.

Basir claimed to have worked as an interpreter for the Lithuanian troops stationed in Afghanistan during the NATO War, and had documentation and photos to prove it. Freeman Post couldn't prove the authenticity of the documents, but they paint a compelling story.