This brings to mind another of Damon Stern’s lectures, which was about how the brutalized and starving poor people of Petrograd in Russia behaved after they broke into the palace of the Czars in 1917. They got to see for the first time all the treasures inside the palace, and they were so outraged they wanted to wreck them. But then one man got their attention by firing a gun at the ceiling, and he said, ‘Comrades! Comrades! This is all ours now! Don’t hurt anything!’
