Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...
...Last August when Russia was fighting off Germany's renewed attacks and it seemed certain that Japan would seize the chance to invade Russia's Far Eastern provinces, the U.S. went into the Solomons. Japan "fell into the trap" and diverted the troops she needed for a Siberian adventure...
Inside the contracting area the battle became a melee. Distracted Axis troops faced in all directions at once. Panzer divisions dug in, using their tanks as pillboxes. Across the steppes galloped Cossacks in their black capes. Around gutted villages roared Russian tanks, swift motor-borne Siberian infantry...
...Siberian and Ural miners worked twelve-hour shifts digging coal for Russia's railroads and metallurgical plants. North of Moscow 80,000 city officeworkers felled timber for firewood. Logs were transported by barge, train, bus and trolley car to the capital. After classes and on Sundays pupils and teachers toted firewood to their schools...