Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution
Jewish and German populations of the small towns, is evidently hostile to the Russians, and longs for the return of Austrian rule: the Austrian Germans, for obvious reasons, the Jews especially, from their ancient resentment to the Russians, which the Russian Revolution has hardly attenuated, because of the oppression of their race in Russia.
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This hostility of a minority of the populations of the towns is openly shown. That is further proof of the benevolence of the Russian rule. Belgians and British whom we met in Galicia were astonished to see the Russians accommodating themselves so benevolently to this resentful, contemptuous attitude, that was demonstrated, for instance, by young Jews in the cafés. Our fellow-countrymen did not hide their contempt of what they called the cowardice of the Russians. At a meeting in the open air that we had held at Tarnopol, about a thousand Austrian civilians, men and women, were among our soldier audience, During one of the speeches one of the
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