Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow...
...answered himself: "It is a man who wants to raise a family and to settle firmly in a new place." The emphasis was on the words "firmly" and "new place," for the audience was a group of young city men who are being sent east to help turn Siberian wasteland into golden harvest...
...number of items embargoed for them outnumbered the list for the satellite countries. The Eastern Europe gimmick is to buy strategic materials in the West and freight them to the Chinese at top prices. Each day free world generators, machine tools, and petroleum equipment are raced across the Trans-Siberian railroad to the East, all via the profit making of the middle men in occupied Europe...
...difference between the working conditions of "free" and slave labor in Siberia is negligible. Salisbury also saw the infamous political prison outside Yakutsk, which Henry Wallace once described in glowing terms after a carefully "conducted" tour. Wallace did not know, said Salisbury, that his guide was the Siberian MVD chief. (Wallace later manfully apologized for his mistaken report...
Lawyer Vishinsky's answer crackled with sarcasm. The periodic patrol flights along the Siberian coast were "peeping into other people's gardens." He denounced the "very stupid carelessness" of the first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...