Word: siberias
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...buckets of vodka, and got a laugh out of most situations. Behind the facade of bonhomie he was ruthlessly liquidating all who stood in the way of Stalin's plans. Stubborn peasants were turned over to his friend, NKVD Colonel Ivan Serov. and shipped off in boxcars to Siberia; Jewish culture in the Ukraine was (to use a recent Communist phrase) "wiped...
...produced phony letters from home. "This letter was supposed to be from my mother." one of the Russians remarked scornfully, "but she can't write." Watchful U.S. agents felt sure that all the Russians would hold out, reported one sailor's remark about the current destalinization campaign: "Siberia is still Siberia." But days later that sailor and four of his comrades were gone; four stayed on in the U.S. in seclusion, but the U.S. knew that at least one of them was under continuing Communist pressure...
...what I said so often in Hitler's day-those who ask to be deceived must not grumble if they are gratified." There was even talk of canceling the invitation, but cooler heads persuaded everyone that if Whitehall really put its talents to being coolly cordial, even old : Siberia hands"would get the idea...
Lysenko has not been shot, imprisoned or even sent to die in Siberia like his old rival Vavilov. He keeps his three Stalin prizes and his six Orders of Lenin, besides many of his honorary posts. But he knows what has happened to him. When interviewed by a Western newsman, he said with dignity: "I shall concentrate now on my scientific work...
...Sugiura needed no airplane. Last November, just a few days after Japanese meteorologists detected air disturbances from Soviet tests in Siberia, he set two large porcelain dishes filled with water in the yard behind his Tokyo laboratory and let dust settle into them for 24 hours. He evaporated the water and got from each square meter 150 milligrams (.005 oz.) of dust. Most of it was ordinary dirt from Tokyo's grimy atmosphere, but the remainder was highly radioactive, and could be analyzed...