Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splendid fellow named Masdak was proclaiming to his native Persia that "private property is the root of hatred and strife between men . . . the cause of all evil and bad. Communism is applied religion ..." In 1492, of course, Columbus discovered America, but in the Peters book the founding of the Siberian town of Sibir rated as much space...
...talking about Russia, Communist scheming and Soviet thinking. In 1932, he decided to leave the University of Wisconsin and to learn something about the Soviet experiment by going prepared himself by taking a welder's course in the U.S., then worked as a welder and chemist at the Siberian industrial center of Magnitogorsk, married a Russian girl there. Then he spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the London News Chronicle and the French news agency Havas. In 1941 he wrote a series of articles about the growing friction between Hitler and Stalin, was summarily thrown...
...happened to them all? As many as 40% are dead, according to NATO estimates. Many are still working as slave laborers. A year after the war ended, Russian sources indicated that 2,800,000 Germans, Italians, Japanese, Hungarians and French were working on a northern link of the Trans-Siberian railway. Other prisoners are held over the heads of satellite countries as hostages...
Armored Train. Ulrich was Chambers' first boss in the underground. A tough, agile little Russian, Ulrich had been a fellow prisoner of Stalin in a subArctic Siberian camp, and commander of an armored train during Russia's civil war. "If there is ever a revolution in America," Ulrich used to say, "get yourself an armored train. It is the only comfortable way to go through a revolution." Pending a revolution, he taught Chambers all the wrinkles of underground work, from invisible ink to serving as a courier, to developing microfilms in the bathroom of a Gay Street apartment...
...most extensive and successful enterprises ever carried out in the name of science for the sake of imperialism; and so the Russians, with a genius for reverse publicity, ignored or suppressed many of its fascinating details until they sank from memory like a shower of stars in the long Siberian night...