Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-belting front. Mr. Molotov's cry for a fresh sector in Europe had to be balanced against cries from Chungking (see p. 25); against the threat looming from the Aleutians (see p. 24) that Japan might soon menace both the U.S. and Russia with a new Siberian sector; against, above all, the renewed peril to Egypt and Suez...
...hardships and perils which formerly confronted an aggressor." And the aggressor that is now whipsawing his way through Burma is the most populous of the Axis nations. Expert Kir-alfy is alarmed by visions of Japanese forces striking at Alaska and Canada or crashing through Russia's Siberian rear. But the thought that throws him into a cold intellectual sweat is the vision of the Nazi and Japanese tank commanders shaking hands on the dusty plains of an India in which all pukka sahibs will have checked the white man's burden forever at a pukka concentration camp...
...Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...Novosibirsk (2,000 miles east of Moscow) was a primitive country town of 70,000. Today it is a thriving city of 500,000, known as the "Chicago of Siberia." Siberian iron and steel production (chief centers: Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk and Stalinsk) is estimated to be already as large as Japan's, and new mills are going up in scores of localities. According to Maurice Hindus (TIME, April 27), one of the few men outside the Soviet Union who was right about Russia's western front, "Komsomolsk . . . the steel city in the Far East . . . is a roaring ammunition plant...
Siberia still lacks sufficient railroads, and the Trans-Siberian is dangerously near the Manchukuoan border and Japanese bombers. But long ago the Russians began building a parallel line from Taishet 2,000 miles east...