Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

This is the rest of the story,
When I had to leave Leningrad and go to Moscow or to a nearby city in the USSR, I had to apply for permission to the “УПДК”
UPDK - Main Administration for Services to the Diplomatic Corps.
I applied several times to go to Czernowitz and every time I received a NYET. Finally I received a DA.
I flew to Lvov, in the Aeroflot plane I was seated next to an English speaking passenger that somehow knew where I was going. Arriving in Lvov I was picked up by an Inturist rep who took me to the train station bought my ticket and introduced me to the conductress which in Russian is called Dezurnaya. The dezurnaya took me to my compartment, introduced me to the other passengers in the cabin and told them that I am a “Veliky Americansky ispravnik” (Important American official) and to look after me. She also told them that if something happens to me she will keep them responsible. She checked on me at least once an hour.
When I arrived in Czernowitz an Inturist rep meet me and took me to the Cheremosh.
On leaving Czernowitz an Inturist rep took me to the train introduced me to the Dezurnaya and when I arrived in Levov I was also meet and later taken to the airport for my return flight to Leningrad.
I was under constant supervision; they thought that I was a “Veliky Americansky Shpiyon”

Arthur

--- On Sun, 7/18/10, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz
> To: "Arthur Rindner" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>, "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> Cc: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 2:53 PM
> Could it be that Czernowitz was such
> a desirable place to live in, that had
> everyone been allowed to visit, they would have wanted to
> stay there?
>
> Another reason might have been the general communist
> attitude of saying
> "nyet" and "nye mojhne" to everything.
>
>
> On 7/18/10 8:13 AM, "Arthur von Czernowitz" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hardy,
> > Yes, I forgot, I believe the reason that I did not get
> permission to visit
> > Czernowitz was, that the city was a closed city.
> > Why? ich weishnit.
> >
> > Arthur

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