Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution
How can we explain otherwise that these same Russians, who have everywhere in their own country destroyed and burned the slightest sign reminiscent of the Czarist Government, have left in Bucowina and in Galicia all the Austrian symbols? Everywhere on the public buildings one saw the Austrian eagle and German inscriptions, superfluous, moreover, in a country where the only languages spoken are the Ruthuanian, Slav, and Polish. Even the old tobacco shops of the Austrian monopoly have retained their black and yellow signs. At Czernowitz, when General Korniloff received us at the General Headquarters, established in the palace of the former Austrian Governor, he was seated under a life-sized portrait of the Emperor Francis Joseph. Now in Russia we should have to look long before we could find a portrait of the Czar with anything left but the frame!
In that same city, accompanied by two Russian officers, we had gone to make some purchases in a shop. It was kept by people whose Viennese accent clearly showed their origin. They wrapped up our purchases in a copy of the Arbeiter
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