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...aircraft flew off course on intelligence purposes, [while] the U.S. said it flew off innocently. However, both governments implied similar things: that the plane was alone when it flew off, that it was alone when it was shot down and that it was shot down off of [Soviet island] Sakhalin," said Keppel, who once served in Moscow...
Coal miners in Siberia and the far north left their pits. Resolutions condemning the Emergency Committee were passed in communities from Sakhalin Island in the far east to Petrozavodsk, near the border with Finland. In Leningrad tens of thousands gathered in front of the Winter Palace, which Lenin's forces had stormed to begin the Bolshevik Revolution...
This new crusade began with the seizure of the east bank of the Amur valley as far south as Vladivostok, which a now enfeebled China ceded in 1860. On the enormous Pacific island of Sakhalin, the Russians first established a joint "condominium" with the Japanese in 1855, then took over the whole place in 1875. In the rugged and thinly settled borderlands of Central Asia, the Russians simply invaded. They stormed legendary Tashkent in 1864 and turned the whole of Turkistan into a Russian province. They besieged the sacred city of Samarkand, site of the tomb of the medieval chieftain...
Stalin won outright annexation of parts of eastern Poland; the Poles were compensated with parts of easternmost Germany. In the Far East the Soviets were secretly awarded the Japanese Kurile Islands and the southern part of Sakhalin Island, an arrangement disclosed after Japan's defeat...
...tuberculosis appeared when he was graduated from medical school. The fatal disease surely contributed to his doleful outlook, though it does not appear to have affected his compassion. As Troyat suggests, while Chekhov's journey to a remote penal colony was motivated by sympathy, writing The Island of Sakhalin was not a labor of love. Yet the book riveted attention on the inhuman conditions at the Czar's gulag and eventually led to reforms...