Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...
...courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death. Hereafter all grave cases are to come up before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii in the White Sea, most Moscovites realize that Comrade Yagoda still retains effective powers of life...
...Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia pointed last week to another remote spot on the map and invited Jews to move in to form an autonomous Jewish national province. The spot was Biro-Bidjan in farthest Siberia, a wild and fertile land of mountains and rivers, drained by the great Amur and separated only by that river from Manchukuo on the south and west...
...Petersburg streets with dead when a family of five Russian Jews who lived in one small room across from the central police station scrambled a few belongings together and hastily escaped from Russia. There were 16 refugees crowded into the third-class compartment which carried them across Siberia. And when they reached San Francisco via Japan and Honolulu nothing seemed so strange as the way U. S. residents spread themselves out, unless it was the way they ate soup for the first part of their dinner instead of the last. Last week Jascha Heifetz arrived in New York...
...peace in Asia necessitate a more realistic appreciation of the Japanese position, there is no reason to believe war will come between the two countries. War between Japan and Russia is a possibility, but it will be fought on the most convenient battle-ground in the world--Manchuria and Siberia. There, of all places, two major powers can fight with a minimum danger of involving the rest of the world, especially the United States. If we must have wars, one can hardly recommend a better fighting locus than this area. If the United States got into a war fought...