![]() It’s all the same to me whether our Ferdinand was done in by a Serb or Turk, Catholic or Moslem, anarchist or Young Czech.” 1 The views that Švejk and Palivec express here are reflective of the ways many Czechs felt about the Turks in the first decades of the 20th century. Pay your beer, sit down in my pub and jabber what you like. For tradesmen like us politics doesn’t enter into it. ![]() ![]() Palivec replies: “One customer is as good as another, never mind a Turk. “Do you like the Turks? Do you like those heathen dogs? You don’t, do you?” the Good Soldier Švejk says to Palivec, the innkeeper, in Jaroslav Hašek’s famous novel.
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