Through the Russian Revolution . Obliterating the Past. Colossal statue cf Czar Alexander III being dis-mantled after the Soviet came into power. Note the workman at extremetop fixing rope on the crown. (See next page.). u COMRADES OF THE SEA 77 to hard labor. All done in the name of the Czar. Now the Czars were gone; their very names werebeing blotted out. The ships were being re-chris-tened with names fitting the new republican order. By this ceremony the Emperor Paul the First be-came The Republic. The Emperor Alexander IIemerged from its baptism of paint as the Dawn ofLiberty. Here was rev
Through the Russian Revolution . Obliterating the Past. Colossal statue cf Czar Alexander III being dis-mantled after the Soviet came into power. Note the workman at extremetop fixing rope on the crown. (See next page.). u COMRADES OF THE SEA 77 to hard labor. All done in the name of the Czar. Now the Czars were gone; their very names werebeing blotted out. The ships were being re-chris-tened with names fitting the new republican order. By this ceremony the Emperor Paul the First be-came The Republic. The Emperor Alexander IIemerged from its baptism of paint as the Dawn ofLiberty. Here was revolution enough to make theseancient autocrats turn in their graves. But it waseven harder on the living Czar and his son. TheCzarevitch was renamed the Citizen, while NicholasII came forth as the good ship Comrade. Comrade!This ex-Czar, now living in exile in Tobolsk, knewthat the meanest coal-heaver was now a Comrade. The new names appeared in gold on the jauntyribboned caps of the sailors. And the sailors ap-peared everywhere as missionaries of Liberty, Com-radeship and the Republic. To make these changes in the names of the shipswas very easy. Yet they were not mere surfacechanges, but symbolized a change in r
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