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Translation Office 1 33: 40 be Article of the "Vlajka" from ll.lo.1941. In Bul, mahcen 29,0KT.19 41 "Comrade" and "Brother" play General. Tgb. No. Budjenny became famous in the USSR by his careless wearing of uniform and especially by his long, powerful moustache, on which even a march song was composed, which is sung today by all Bolsheviks. When we think of Marshal Budjeny, the memory of the number of legionary generals of the former ČsR rises up, whose number was so large that it exceeded that of all generals in the former Austro-Hungarian army. These legionarian generals were also popular among the soldiers. Not perhaps because of their moustaches, but some perhaps also because of the careless wearing of their uniform. These heroes would hardly climb a horse without foreign help, although,-justice must be, I do not want to say that they climb the horse wrongly, as it is to the mighty general inspector of the former Chsl. c/12.07. Army J.S.Machar, blessed memory, has happened. Yes, such a thing happens, although this has probably been the first and only time in the history of humanity/when a poet confuses Pegasus with the horse and when a conspiratorial antimilitarist perceives the opportunity to hang his hero's breast with sparkling orders for which he had nothing but ridicule at the time of his ambiguity. I do not want to wrong the real soldiers. A soldier never makes fun of a real soldier, even if he comes from the enemy camp. The former German army had many capable officers, who in the world war for their bravery on the front the German Iron Crosses I. and II.Class and the Austrian Orders with sword and medal. But precisely these, if they were admitted at all into the association of the former army, then reached as highest rank the level of a captain or major. It was no longer possible. After all, it was "the cursed Oeterreicher", who had served largely "from the Pike on", i.e. Militaryly educated were to be graduates of cadets schools or of the Theresian military- 169-9A1