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Gleb Nerzhin, in many ways a stand-in for Solzhenitsyn himself, makes an opposite choice to Rubin's. By refusing to work on a new bugging device, he condemns himself to Siberia. He is the character most conscious of the paradox that pervades the novel: that in Stalin's Russia only those in prison are truly free to be honest with one another. "When you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power ?he's free again...
...escaped his prison hell on March 5, 1953, when he was released after serving his eight-year sentence. On the first day of his freedom, the local radio carried the bulletin announcing Stalin's death. Even though out of the camp, he still had to live in exile in Siberia. He began putting down on paper the stories he had worked over in his mind during his imprisonment...
...earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields in western Siberia to Czechoslovak plants near Kosice...
...pact, which had been discussed for a decade before the Russians stopped saying nyet, is the first trickle in what the Japanese hope will become a Siberian thaw. Russia is already proposing that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...
...Japanese estimate that Siberia contains at least 5 billion tons of iron ore, 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas, limitless hydroelectric power, and eminently marketable amounts of pelts from sable, lynx and big Siberian bears. "We have a destiny in Siberia," says Yoshinari Kawai, 82, a canny Japanese bulldozer manufacturer who led the timber negotiations and now heads the Japanese consortium. "Happily, that destiny will be equally profitable to us Japanese and the Russian people...