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...that they have no freedom," he went on. They must sell their crops at prices set by the government, and support a great burden of taxation for public works. Although there is not sufficient food produced to feed the population, yet much is exported to feed Russian families in Siberia. "There has been, an there will be, famine on a large scale as long as the Communist regime lasts," he said...
Mass Deportation. A woman who asked not to be named in the press because her husband might still be alive and in Communist hands, told the committee that soon after the Russians marched into Lithuania they began shipping men, women and children to Siberia by the carload. Separated from her husband, she spent 17 hungry, nightmarish days traveling eastward in a cattle car packed with 40-odd deportees, 15 of them infants. In Siberia she lived in a crude barracks, worked twelve hours a day in a construction gang...
...Lithuania, so in Latvia: Mrs. Zenta Vizbulis never saw her husband again after she was arrested in the Latvian city of Talsi. She, too, was hauled to Siberia in a crowded cattle car. The Communist slavers put her and other women to work on collective farms. Now & then she saw work gangs of Latvian men from a nearby slave-labor camp. "They were just like skeletons," she said. "They were young men with deep black eyes...
More precious than all these is the "black wealth" of the steppe: the deep, black earth that covers most of the Ukraine and stretches across the Volga into the plain of Siberia. Shorn of its black earth, the Soviet Union would die. It feeds two-thirds of Russia's 210 million people...
...Between 8 and 20 million "forced laborers," most of them at work on the massive "Stalin Projects" (Volga-Don Canal, Kuibyshev power station), and in atom plants in central Siberia. Supervised by GULAG, the industrial arm of the MVD (secret police), a minority of the slaves are political prisoners; many are Crimean Tartars and other minorities, shipped to Siberia en masse...