Hi,
Very interesting and timely message. I share your feelings about the absence
of any retroactive allegiance to the last three regimes that ruled our
homeland during the last century and the behavior of many Austrians during
WW2 was quite notorious.
Fred Schneider
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabriel Rinzler" <grinzler_at_gru.net>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Re: Romanian origin July 06, 2015
> For the few of us born in Czernowitz or Northern Bucovina the question if
> we consider ourselves Romanian is not an uninteresting topic. From the few
> examples mentioned before, during our wandering years, it was occasionally
> favorable to be born in Romania but other times not. When I was waiting in
> Vienna for an US visa my Soviet citizenship was more advantageous then the
> Romanian one as the Soviet quota was less crowded. When during the cold
> war I was traveling with my first American passport that had under "place
> born: Soviet Union" it was some time embarrassing. So I made in the next
> passport sure that it stated: born in Romania. But when I was visiting as
> a tourist the DDR, our bus was held up an hour at "Checkpoint Charley"
> because my and my wife's passports needed an extra scrutiny.
> A few days ago when I was explaining (again) how my hometown changed its
> nationality several times while staying geographically in the same place,
> I was asked: but what do you feel yourself Russian, Romanian or Ukrainian?
> I cannot say that my time spent in Romania or under the Soviets has left
> me with any feelings of attachment or patriotism for any of them, so I
> said: neither!
> Through our parents and grandparents we may have some second-hand cultural
> allegiance to the late Austro-Hungarian empire (see Cornel's fascination
> with the A/H military and the Kaiser) But we know that the Austrians were
> not " Feine Menschen" either, especially during the second WW.
> That is how I see it.
> [Gabriel Rinzler]
>
>
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