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Rendezvous with Tommy guns. So for two months she gave the Russians false information. She dared not break with them until her father, who lived in the Russian zone, came to Berlin for a visit. When the two Russians, Senior Lieuts. Sedov and Schulkin, dressed in civilian clothes, next came to see her, eight U.S. MPs with Tommy guns turned up at the rendezvous, took the Russians to Wannsee Prison, where they stripped and searched them...
...Philosopher John Dewey's Commission after a minute scrutiny of the evidence, held that the first two Moscow trials were frame-ups, that Leon Trotsky and his son Sedov had not been implicated as charged. But the Commission's findings did not exclude the possibility that some sort of treasonable activity had occurred...
...summer of 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sedov was doing exploration work in the Kara Sea and making a hydrological survey of the Laptev Sea, two links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down...
...March 2, 1938, the Sedov had drifted 3° north. 21° east. On that day the drift of the ice floes shifted and the three ships began to move northwestward toward the North Pole. Meanwhile Joseph Stalin had sent an air expedition to rescue the crews. The fliers reached the ships on April 2, promptly arrested Professor Samoilovich for bungling, thereby giving him the distinction of being arrested closer to the North Pole than any other man in history...
...icebreaker Yermak reached the ships, towed the Sadko and Malygin to clear water. The Sedov, her screw damaged, was left in the ice. Aboard her were 14 men picked for stamina from the four ships, under Constantine Badigin. who had been elected captain of the Sedov. The new icebreaker J. Stalin tried to reach the Sedov, but another winter set in and she had to give up. At this point Joseph Stalin decided to turn the Arctic fiasco into an asset. He purged the Glavnoye Upravlenya, Severnovo Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short...