Word: freddy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poldi, Freddi. Figl rose to leadership in postwar Austria. His strength of character had been developed in Dachau and the underground, and his anti-Communism appealed to the Austrians-who have not yet forgotten the first week of the Red army rapine, when women lay shivering on Vienna's steep roofs, hoping that the Russian soldiers would be too lazy to climb all the way up. He once told a Russian: "You can put me in jail if you want to; I was there for six years, and I'm not afraid to go back...
Recently he remarked: "We here in Austria can literally look across the Iron Curtain. We see how for miles behind the frontier they have razed every village. And we tell each other: Poldi, Freddi, Pepperl, we say, if this is the People's Democracy, then we are better off with what we have, even-" and he pointed to himself with a grin "-even if the government is no good...