Quotes About émigrés

The majority of loyalist émigrés from the North went to Canada. Three-quarters of these arrived in Nova Scotia, which at that time included all the maritime provinces.

Their legacy to America was immense, and the social sciences and humanities as well as the fine arts, music and drama would be unimaginable today without the contribution of these émigrés.

The Western democracies had to fear their own public opinion, and above all the right-wing press, which constantly railed against the 'warmongers' who sought to drag Europe into conflict so as to regain their lost positions.10 Anti-Communism was widespread, and the ban on émigrés' practising any political activity, in the majority of host countries, was not a signal for tolerance.

Refugees, usually émigrés and immigrants

Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.

Even skeptical emigres clued in to OGPU methods wanted to believe their homeland could somehow be seized back from the godless, barbaric Bolsheviks, and speculated endlessly about a Napoleon figure to lead a patriotic movement, mentioning most often Mikhail Tukhachevsky: