Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
...Italy the 162nd Turkoman Infantry -former Russian prisoners officered by Germans-was fighting to help save Kesselring's army. Almond-eyed, some with pigtails, they had belonged to crack Red Army Siberian divisions, now were obviously helping the Germans for a meal ticket...
Feeling a good deal like Siberian exiles, the museum men whiled away the long, blitzless days by whamming golf balls across the manicured terraces or romping with a police dog named Peggy. Drinking was strictly forbidden...
Where possible, Konev uses Studebaker trucks, for whose six wheels, four gears and sturdiness Red officers profess high regard. Artillery is hauled by tractors, men, and small, shaggy Siberian ponies, which need amazingly little food and rest. U.S. jeeps do the rest, because the Russians have found them marvelous mud buggies...
...remember Scott as the TIME editor who lived ten years under Stalin's rule, worked first as a welder in Siberian Magnitogorsk, later as Moscow correspondent 'for the London News Chronicle and the New York Times...