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Major General Pedro Aramburu's government followed up with large-scale jailings. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Peronistas were behind bars; 125 labor leaders were loaded aboard a navy transport to be sent to distant Patagonia, Argentina's more than adequate substitute for Siberia...
...soldiers and tens of thousands of dark-clad Muscovites, who stood in the sub-zero cold, craning their necks for a glimpse of the official entourage. Among those welcoming the "peacemakers" were a number of top-level bureaucrats just back from viewing a series of thermonuclear explosions * in north Siberia. Together they all piled into the Kremlin to get ready for this week's special meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Though the welcome was vast, it was silent; no one in the streets cheered...
...German drive into southern Russia the following year touched off rebellions against Soviet authority in several small autonomous regions. As the Red army rolled back the Wehrmacht, Serov followed behind, liquidating "collaborationists." He deported to Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket...
Some Western scientists reckoned that the Russian explosion took place in Eastern Siberia or in the Gobi desert. British scientists guessed that its intensity was in the neighborhood of 15 megatons (the most recent U.S. blast at Bikini is usually estimated at between ten and 20 megatons). Excited newspaper headlines (and some discreet Communist prodding) led fainthearts and opposition parties in most of the affected nations to demand an immediate stop to all atomic tests everywhere. Yet even in France, where the wails were loudest, the most intense concentration of radioactivity was ar below the top level that human beings...
...Street. For not only are the programs on East Asia, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East--among the newest at the University, but they are also dramatic illustrations of the interest of American higher education in the revolutionary area stretching from Egypt to Japan, and from Lithuania to Siberia...