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...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...
...Whoa. Contrary to popular belief, sled dogs, which are not necessarily pure-bred Siberian Huskies, are docile, though a team often gets some ankle nipping from the team it is passing. Once in front, the lead team tends to set a slower pace, but a passed team, in a frenzy of competitive spirit, redoubles its efforts to take the lead. The driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick...