Where Is GRAZ on the EASTERN SIDE? NEAR WHERE? NEAR WHICH OCCUPIER? Now I don't live near Pheonix, but I can tell you about the nudie bars on the highway... or Bakersfield with The Oil derricks, or Fresno with the heat, or Eureka and the hippies, or Oregon and the Three Sisters or even Miami, Baton Rouge, Knoxville, Missipi... and I think Arnold lived a lot closer to the occupied zone than I do to Rock City TN.... So the liberals are grasping.
quote from History website
From Some History website
"In the Soviet occupied eastern half of the country, the Soviets asked Karl Renner, a Socialist leader, to form and head a provisional government whom the Soviets believed they would be able to manipulate. Renner recruited the leaders of the three nonfascist parties and established a city administration in Vienna in early April 1945. "
A French reader who lived in Austria as a boy reports, "The French Lycée in Vienna was opened shortly after the occupation began. One could find in this school a lot of French children as well as Austrian. I frequently went into the neutral secor and even the Soviet sector. The Soviet military police were very strict and dangerous. We children known that they were able to shoot, even a child. I have to say the Soviet police were always polite with me. The France-U.S.-England sectors were free, with certain limitations. It was forbiden to critisize the presence of the Allies, and still more so Soviets. (Actually there were few but committed Communists prepared to critixcise the Allies--as the alternative was the Soviets. There were informers everywhere. Conditions after the War were very difficult. Even in school we could be punished for political comments, but in hiding with friends we did discuss the politixal situation. To travel from one sector to other we needed a card; and a passport with visa for the foreigners."