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...Wishery camp [on the Wishery River] consists of about 27 sq. mi. of Siberian territory. Within this area were about 17 convict stations and barracks...
...didn't know the War was over," said Rudolf Kutz. "Nobody told us till 1929. We asked to be sent back, but nobody paid any attention, we had to walk. There are lots of fellows in that Siberian prison who don't know yet that peace has been signed...
...Siberian Taiga (Amkino). Because its scene is one of the world's wildest frontiers and its direction straightforward and vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right...
TURKSIB?Good newsreel of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway (TIME, June...
...steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting technically, but his approach?...