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Soviet Tests. With their methods checked by this workout, the Japanese scientists waited for more explosions, which came fairly soon. Last Aug. 26, an electrical instrument recorded a sudden rise in atmospheric electricity north-northeast of Japan, presumably in North eastern Siberia. It was not like the rise caused by a thunderstorm, but showed the characteristic profile of an atomic explosion. Four hours later came an air wave. It was only one-sixth as strong as the waves resulting from the U.S. tests, but Dr. Miyake says this does not mean that the Soviet explosion was only one-sixth...
Some Japanese newspapers jumped to the conclusion that the Soviet tests were held on Wrangel Island, off the north coast of Siberia, where the Russians have a meteorological station. Dr. Miyake is not as definite. All during the tests, he says, the Russian station kept sending its normal weather bulletins...
...Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going...
Salisbury's grim description of Russian forced labor around Yakutsk was all the more startling in light of a "Picture Report on Siberia'' that ran in the Times barely three months ago, when Salisbury was still in Russia. "The correspondent," said the text accompanying the pictures, "was particularly impressed by the city's cultural institutions" and "excellent" schools. The captions also mentioned the "well-carpentered" houses, city library, and a nursery "somewhat comparable to a U.S. nursery." Nowhere did the picture story mention that the area Salisbury was describing was in the heartland of what...
...according to Magarshack, was to make her household resemble the Czarist government as closely as possible. She gave her serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead and either drowned them at birth in the estate lake or brought them up secretly for years in locked rooms. "A maid who did not offer...