Published on Monday, September 29, 2008
By Daily Bulletin Staff Writer
The newspaper item from March 23, 1917, drips with irony.
It's an interview with Anton Cherbak, a resident of the Alta Loma neighborhood of today's Rancho Cucamonga who was publisher of the Russian-language "Pacific Ocean" newspaper in San Francisco.
"I am going back to Russia next month," announced Cherbak, who as Anton Shterbacoff had come to the Inland Empire in July 1898. "I shall meet my friends of the prison, free people now, and I shall tell them that Russia is pointing the way to freedom for all humanity."
Cherbak, the Anglicized version of his name that he took upon arriving in America, was praising the early stages of the Russian Revolution in which the yoke of the czar was thrown off, though only to be replaced later by even greater oppression of the Communist regime.
Despite warnings from his family, Cherbak did go to Russia the next month to lecture and tour and briefly become part of the Russian legislature, the Duma
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