Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirteen (Mosfilm) relates a day's experience of ten Soviet soldiers, their commander, his wife and an old geologist on their homeward journey across the Siberian Desert. Coming by chance upon a spring frequented by a band of marauding Baschmachi tribesmen, the commander (Ivan Novoseltsev) decides to trap the bandits when they shortly arrive for water. One by one the defenders drop before overwhelming hordes until by the time help comes only Private Akchurin (Ilya Kuznetsov) remains...
...rapping of knuckles echoed through the land. Chief political officers in the Kiev, Volga and Caucasus districts were reprimanded for "political blindness and carelessness" in failing to detect intriguers in their midst. Two unnamed spies of a "certain foreign intelligence service" were arrested. The West Siberian Geological Trust, ordered to explore for oil in the Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...cannot graft them on our system any more than you can graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They raised lusty cheers for the Prime Minister and returned the mellow words with which he left them: "God bless...
...troops, most of them from the Pacific Coast, who formed the U. S. contingent of Allied Intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. From this halfway point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took a different view, supported the White Russian armies openly, laid down a barrage of vilification against...