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...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
Death in Biarritz came last week to another contemporary of grizzled Bomber Frolenko, 88-year-old Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. He, too, was typical of his generation in Russia, the group of ineffectively liberal aristocrats of the middle 19th Century. (Tsar Alexander II's liberation of the serfs did not, in the end, please the serfs because the plan made them pay-as-they-farmed.) A grandson of a sister of Tsar Alexander I, Prince Alexander became Commander of the Preobrajensky Guards at 28. In 1877 he captured Etropol in the war with Turkey. His father. Duke Constantine, gave...
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