Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
...stage for one of the swiftest, most abrupt and feverish social and political developments the world has known. How massive that development may be, the rest of the world began to suspect when most of the industrial Ukraine went under, and Russia continued to arm herself from the Siberian arsenal...
...Siberian Arctic, until recently a grim prospect even for an Eskimo, has begun to yield to plane, radio, icebreaker...
...Weave cloth (an art unknown among Siberian primitives) on a loom much like that of the Polynesians...
...camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities. Among the 10,000 prisoners was a large number of university professors and college students who organized a miniature university within...