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...capitalist ventures in oil, forestry and so on will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn his attention from timber raping in Siberia to timber growing in America. DANIEL L. PEARLMAN Alexandria, Virginia...
Under 70 years of communist rule, Siberia became not only a place of punishment but also a punished place, and nuclear trauma was but one of the tortures visited on the land. Possibly the largest single source of air pollution in the world is a complex of smelters in Norilsk in central Siberia; it pumps 2 million tons of sulfur, along with heavy metals and other poisons, into the air each year, contributing heavily to a noxious arctic haze that plagues residents of the northern latitudes as far away as Canada. Siberian industrial emissions contribute heavily to the threat...
...visited our apartment, disappeared into the bathroom and returned with a book that had been concealed under his clothing: The Gulag Archipelago. The book was a shattering experience, evoking a somber world of gray camps surrounded by barbed wire, investigators' offices and torture chambers, icy mines in Kolyma and Norilsk...
...former senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. After brief service with the Red Army in World War II, he earned a scientific degree from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss of his home base, the Krasnoyarsk region, in 1969, reportedly at the direct behest of Brezhnev. Three years later he was named a Central Committee secretary...
...delegates, killing one. But before he could fire again the delegation had disarmed him, shot him dead with his own weapon. Word spread through Mirnoye and to two nearby camps. Prisoners revolted, disarmed the guards. On April 4 MVD security troops from the Arctic Circle towns of Norilsk and Igarka, armed with heavy machine guns, fought a battle with armed prisoners. Some 200 prisoners and twelve guards were killed. When prison order was restored, an estimated 80 prisoners were found to have escaped into the desolate countryside...
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