Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 6 

A long and thunderous applause had already begun while Morozin was still finishing his translation. "Hooray for Harioto!" people shouted. "A medal for Harioto!" others called out. "The Order of Lenin for Harioto," some wag called out. That last remark caused a burst of hilarity, and people were wiping away tears. Hooray for Harioto! was repeated several more times. When all the glasses were emptied, Ekaterina Efimovna, the Mayor and the People¹s Deputy, rose slowly to her feet and then with a flick of her plump wrist silenced the hall.
"Comrades!" she said and looked sternly at Bondarenko who averted her eyes and reached for the champagne bottle to fill his glass. "I say 'comrades' because," Catherine the Great began anew, "we are all comrades here. Once more we are embarking on a common cause, and thus we continue to be comrades, comrades in the best sense of the word. You needn't