Word: omsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good bureaucrat needs to be happy is a bureau-any bureau. Not understanding this universal law of nature, Moscow s Komsomolskaya Pravda waxed wroth last week at a bureaucrat named Bylinkin who could just as well have worked in Omsk, Tomsk or Washington...
...into police states. It is important as a moral and political indictment of Europe's and Asia's No. 1 power. And it is a readable story of escape and survival from a police network whose agents are kept almost as busy abroad as they are in Omsk and Tomsk...
...Eastern Front. Then, like Bela Kun, the future head of Soviet Hungary, and Tibor Szamuely, the future head of Hungary's Red Terror, Josip Broz was captured by the Russians, or deserted to them. It was 1915. He was 19. The Russians packed him off to Omsk, in Siberia...
...Omsk Josip Broz saw the mass execution of 1,600 striking railroad workers by Tsarist Admiral Kolchak. When the Red Army reached Omsk, Josip Broz joined up. The young Croat who didn't want to fight for the Habsburgs fought through the hard, bitter years of Russia's civil wars...
...Omsk's Mayor is 44-year-old Kuzma Koshelev, an ex-peasant from White Russia. He has his troubles. Fuel must be hauled 200 to 1,000 miles. Nine brickyards turning out 86 million bricks a year have been unable to catch up with the housing shortage. Water is scarce. But matters have improved steadily through...