Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
Daughter Mary Hill. Son-in-law Samuel's activities were protean. He bought expiring railroads, banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies-roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built...
...Moscow last week the Commissariat for Labor took action against two Russian engineers who had refused to do work as signed them in the Siberian Kuznetsk coal fields. It was decreed that no one in Russia shall employ these "deserters" for the next six months, and that their food cards be canceled. If they do not starve to death clandestine charity will be to blame. In the Soviet mind, Russia is now fighting an ''economic war," and it is pointed out that in other kinds of wars deserters are shot. Thus, Moscovites argue, the Soviet State is "more merciful" than...
...Wishery camp [on the Wishery River] consists of about 27 sq. mi. of Siberian territory. Within this area were about 17 convict stations and barracks...
...didn't know the War was over," said Rudolf Kutz. "Nobody told us till 1929. We asked to be sent back, but nobody paid any attention, we had to walk. There are lots of fellows in that Siberian prison who don't know yet that peace has been signed...