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Second Thoughts. Next day, Khrushchev was still as surly as a Siberian bear. He muttered that if this was British Socialism, he preferred to be a Tory. At a lunch given by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Khrushchev interrupted another of Bulganin's speeches to grunt: "And I hope next time we come, the Labor Party will be more friendly." When Brown came up to offer his hand, Khrushchev curtly said "Nyet," and turned away...
...Virgin Land" is Soviet propaganda's term for an unsettled stretch of central Siberian steppe, about the size of the two Dakotas, that Party Secretary Khrushchev grandiosely planned to put under wheat in just two seasons. Ploughs and tractors were brought hastily from the Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Komsomols (Young Communists), most of them without farm experience, were dumped on the steppe and told it was their sacred duty to produce...
Drafted in 1939, Winter fought in Poland, later in Russia. He kept his talent alive by filling his soldier's sketchbook with nearly 500 postcard-sized abstractions, which he regularly mailed home to his wife. Later, he spent five years a Siberian labor camp, where he kept on sketching...
...Koba" was a fellow Georgian, Sergo Ordzhonikidze (rhymes roughly with poor-Johnny-kids-me), an oldtime Bolshevik who had risen to be top commissar of heavy industry. One day in 1936, during what Russians now call the Ezhovshchina (the purge which carried off some 7,000,000 Russians to Siberian prison camps and mass graves), Ordzhonikidze learned that his precious engineers were being arrested. Victor (1 Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, a minor executive of the Commissariat, later told of Ordzhoni-kidze's telephone call to Stalin...
Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will...