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...Hitler in search of Lebensraum. In a blistering editorial, Pravda pointed out that Peking had published a history textbook containing a map that showed China's frontiers as including parts of the Soviet far east-the Maritime Krai, Vladivostok and Sakhalin; a large part of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast; parts of Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan as far west as Lake Balk hash. This reinterpretation of geography would in effect push the Chinese border as much as 300 miles into the Soviet Union (see map). In a fit of Asian self-righteousness, Peking also demanded that Russia return...
...Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya huffed indignantly about a large Chinese boat on the Amur River in Siberia that was deliberately swamping smaller Russian craft and splashing Soviet sunbathers on the river banks...
What manner of country and what sort of people must the Communists deal with in trying to accomplish their mission? China, of course, is enormous -14 times the size of Texas. It ex tends 2,400 miles from the banks of the Amur River in topmost Manchuria to the tropical jungle border with Viet Nam, and 2,500 miles across from the indented coast on the China Sea to the Kunlun Mountains deep in Central Asia. Inside this vast domain lies just about every variety of flora and fauna imaginable, from rollicking pandas to prowling tigers, from the invigorating ginseng...
...Joint development with the Soviet Union of the Amur River Basin, which forms the boundary between the two countries. The two nations 'signed an agreement last month. China's share of Amur hydroelectric power will be more than her total electricity production last year...
...Siberia, Mark sees innocent peasants and dissident Communists forced to labor like slaves. Because of an order from Stalin, he must lead a winter march down the Amur River to set up the industrial city of Komsomolsk. Without proper food or clothing, the march of the Young Communists turns into a pointless sacrifice; Soloviev's description of how they follow the Amur, dig holes in the ground for shelter, and perish from cold and hunger, is a masterpiece of reporting...