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...Russians Kiev was the "mother of cities," Russia's ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
Since then Svoboda has been Russia's favorite non-Russian hero. When not with his army, Svoboda has been preaching a close Czech-Russian union. When the Pan-Slav conference met in Moscow four months ago, his appeals were among the most urgent...
...Czechs, as to the Russians, the Bulgars and the Slovaks, there was magic in the name of this handsome giant -for in most Slav languages the word svoboda means freedom...
Otto's recruiting was a fizzle. He signed up his three younger brothers, almost no one else. For a time the Army went doggedly ahead, assigned drafted Austrian, Slav, Czech, Hungarian and some German aliens to the unit. Training even began at Indiana's Camp Atterbury...
Conrad liked best to talk about people. "I do not mean gossip . . . he liked to probe the psychology of people, known or even unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...