The nine different ethnic groups of Bukovina region, (Austria-Hungary), 1902. From top left: Hutsul, Hungarian, Romani, Lipovan, Jew, Pole, Schwab, Romanian, Rusyn

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  1. I see lots of medals among them. I wonder if they are veterans that served together or what is the context of the picture?

  2. I live in Bukovina, but I was born in Transylvania and I’m a Schwab from my mother side (I don’t know my father side, I would say either Romanian or Hungarian).

  3. The Schwab is already in the 1920s while the Pole next to him is dressed like it’s 1620s. And the Rusyn looks like the guy I’ve met in Zakopane last year.

  4. >Schwab

    That word in Polish (“szwab”) is a pejorative against Germans in Poland so don’t use it even if you are from the actual region lol.

  5. Stolen from Romania…
    Still missing Basarabia…
    Damn those Russians and Germans with their Ribbentrop Molotov shit

  6. I am Hungarian and when i saw this picture i was seriously battling with my tears.

    This picture for me is the true definition of PEACE and togetherness
    .

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