Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were the Muscovites downhearted? Confounding outside observers, who a month ago predicted that the whole Soviet system would shiver and collapse like a card-house at the breath of modern war, U.S. newsmen in Moscow and a handful of U.S. citizens who got out of Russia by the Trans-Siberian Railway painted a far different picture...
...Communist universe, Moscow might be expected to have the highest morale. From the smaller cities there was little word, from farming villages (where anti-Stalin feeling is strongest) none. But along the Trans-Siberian Railway travelers saw much the same sights that they had seen in Moscow: swift, purposeful mobilization, ample food. They also saw an average of three trains an hour clanking westward with materials for the front...
...Biggest single difficulty of a Russian Government pushed east of Moscow would be transportation. There are virtually no roads, only two north-south rail lines east of Moscow. Both are single-tracked. Only major transportation line through most of Siberia is the east-west Trans-Siberian Railway. Even if all existing industry ran full time at full capacity, few could see how Russia would run an industrial economy and fight a modern war, with such transportation...
...More concrete deterrents were to be encountered across the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is ringed with fortifications. Beneath the cold waters of its harbor lurk submarines, possibly 75 or 100. Within bombing range of Siberian airdromes are all of Japan's paper cities. And guarding Vladivostok and all of eastern Siberia are two special Red Banner Far Eastern Armies, garrisoned and equipped to stand a long siege; mobile, well-trained, efficiently commanded by General of Army Josef Rodionovich Apanasenko. In 1938 the Japanese Army ran into the Red Banner and came out second best...
...matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater, were successful. The Siberian meteorite was perhaps contraterrene, the Arizona meteorite of earthlike matter...