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Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Last Laugh | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...Russian government's gold reserves ever run out, it can always call on LIDIA SKOBLIKOVA, a dimpled, blonde schoolteacher from Siberia, who is going to need help from Brinks to get her winnings home. Speed Skater Skobli-kova, 24, won two gold medals at Squaw Valley in 1960. Last week she won three more, sweeping the 500 meters, the 1,000 meters and the 1,500 meters, setting Olympic records in all three races. "Now cut out that kissing," gasped Lidia, as teammates swarmed round to congratulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: King from the Kitchen | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...easy to see why: The Soviet Union is in many ways an underdeveloped country itself. Young people can find all the excitement and challenge they want at home, without joining a Peace Corps and going to Africa. Peter had worked for two summers in the "Virgin Lands" in Siberia. "The first time I went because I was a Komsomol member and they told me it was my duty," he said. "But the second time I went because I wanted to. I had seen something I liked there: a better side of life, a cleaner side of people that comes...

Author: By Adam Hochschild, | Title: Russian Youth Found Idealistic But Angered By Country's Flaws | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

Sleds & Rugs. Why was he there for the second time in ten months? Easy, said Fidel. For years he had yearned to see Russia's winter wonderland. "I want to see the real hunters in Siberia and see how they live, how they battle with nature and how they prepare their food. It will be very interesting to live among these courageous people." Then it was off to romp in the snow, pose for photographers on a sled and zip down a children's playground slide on a rug. "I want to tell you the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Fidel in Wonderland | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...Russia, during the years when ideas of any kind were considered enemies, authorities thought writing so explosive that they paid writers of all kinds the extreme compliment of sending them to Siberia for saying anything honest at all. Now Russian readers, long starved for words that would offer back to them an image of their own repressed hopes and feelings, stretch avidly to hear any new voice that is raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russia's Writers: After Silence, Human Voices | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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