Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's pudgy Mao Tse-tung had made the long trip from Peking to Moscow to pay fealty to Joseph Stalin. A Soviet diplomatic mission met Mao at the Manchurian border, put him on the Trans-Siberian railway, escorted him all the way to Moscow (ten days, some 3,500 miles). So far as is known, it was Mao's first trip outside his native land...
Reader F. B. Sherman has inquired whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive food parcels and letters from families back home [TIME, Nov. 7] ... The post accepted all the food and clothing parcels that my aunt, in Russian-occupied Poland, could send me, but out of 20-odd parcels, numerous letters and communications (asI learned later) I received a single postcard during my 1½year stay at the hard labor camps [in Siberia...
...faith and determination were sufficient to get her through the long, Trans-Siberian Railway trip and to help her track down Mrs. Lawson in Yangcheng in northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners...
...your review of Isaac Deutscher's Stalin: A Political Biography [TIME, Oct. 10], you mention that Stalin in Siberian exile under the Czar received food parcels and picture postcards from his mother-in-law. Can you tell me whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive such gifts from the folks back home...
...Russians wished to keep their bomb from sending up telltale dust, they could have exploded it deep in some Siberian lake. The second Bikini test bomb (Test Baker), which exploded underwater, did not raise much of a cloud. Most of its dust was carried back into the lagoon by a deluge of radioactive water...