Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia is growing stronger and stronger. If such an attack were made, Japan would have to make it within the next six months. Russia's current project of colonizing Siberia is purely a defensive move...
...Stalin's youth, the Red sketch remarks, he edited a Bolshevist paper named Dro ("Time"). His crimes of robbery and assassination are omitted though his arrests, exiles and escapes are listed-with significant omission of the fact that Stalin did not escape from his last exile to Siberia but was pardoned by Kerensky...
Because distance is easier to determine than direction, first guesses had the quake almost everywhere-in Mexico, in Siberia, in the Black Sea, in the mid-Pacific. Finally, when the earthquake men were able to co-ordinate distances reported by several stations, their eyes popped. The circles they drew all intersected in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and northeast Canada. Never before had a major quake occurred within the Arctic Circle west of Greenland. If the epicentre had been in a populous area, observed the seismologists, the loss of life & property would have been tremendous...
News from two of the most interesting fronts of today has been choked off to a trickle lately. For the past fortnight almost nothing has come out of Germany except official announcements by the government; the state of the Russo-Japanese conflict in Siberia has completely dropped out of the papers. Concerning the latter it is possible to say that no news is good news; more will be heard when the tangible results of the Soviet Recognition become known, but for the present to hear of no fresh border outbursts or inter-capital spats is reassuring. As for Germany...
...keeps pretty closely to the "human relations' side of it, in many ways resembling very strikingly Ella Winter's "Red Virtue." It scope ranges from anecdotes of peasant life and collective struggles through a discussion of morality, prostitution, art, jails, the army and other points to a travelogue of Siberia and an essay on world revolution...