[Cz-L] Plunder

Plunder.
  Whenever there was a change of regime there was looting.
During the 14 years of my life that I spent in Czernowitz we had
3 such changes : The 1940 Soviet take over.
                              The 1941 Rumanian World War Two outbreak.
                                The 1944 Soviet recapture.
 During the take-over period there were always a short time of regime
vacuum.
  No regime, no police – no law . Catch as you can.
    According to tradition , people took axes and crowbars and took to the=
 
streets.
    You had to get up early ,otherwise you had to wait in line for access t=
o
the loot.
   The Germans put up signs :" Who plunders will be shot " but that did no=
t
deter very much.
     What was plundered : First all the stores were broken open and looted.
       Factories , offices, restaurants ,wine cellars, nothing was spared.
      Feuer, a notorious vino from the Pizzelligasse , came dangling a
bucket .
        The neighbors shouted : " Feuer , don’t go looting, they’ll sh=
oot
you ".
      "Who is looting ? there is wine flowing in the Russischegass ,they=
 
say , I just
            take a bucketfull , it is a waste to let it flow".
      And he was right , in the gutter of the Russischegass wine was
flowing.
    Good red Cotnari. Somebody rolled out a few barrels and bashed in the
    pegs and wine was spilling into the gutter .
     After looting the obvious ,the second wave took the remainder:
Furniture, doors
  windows , pictures ,lamps and more.
    My brother came home with a telephone. As we had no line there was no=
 
use for it.
   My mother said : "You take this back ,they will shoot us for this".
   So back it went.
      Looting was not our cup of tea…
           Hardy
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