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...growing alarm of the Soviet leaders. The facts, as Khrushchev gave them: ¶ A shortage of cattle in 1952 equal to 22 million head. ¶ A decline in pork, from 5,000,000 tons in 1940 to 1,600,000 in 1952. ¶ A drop in butter production, in Siberia alone, from 75,000 tons in 1913 to 65,000 tons in 1952. ¶ A supply of potatoes and vegetables that is "quite unsatisfactory...
Black Pobedas. Stevens traveled about Russia as much as Soviet restrictions would allow: from Leningrad on the Finnish Gulf to Tiflis in the Caucasus and Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
...Your article states that the radioactive dust scooped up by U.S. bombers was floating westward over the Pacific from Siberia. This may come as somewhat of a shock to you, but confidentially, the Pacific Ocean lies east of Siberia, not west...
...radioactive air mass from Siberia, floating westward over the Pacific Ocean one day last month, carried an international thunderclap. To the high-patrolling U.S. bombers, which scooped up samples of its fine dust, the radioactivity was obvious evidence of some kind of Russian atomic blast. To the scientists who analyzed the samplings, it was clear proof that the Russians had exploded a thermonuclear superbomb, a remarkably exact duplicate of the U.S.'s own. To the political leaders of the U.S., the air mass was one more ominous sign that the time was close when the Russians might have enough...
Under his direction, whole populations were moved from the border areas to regions deeper in Russia. The great prison administrations of central Siberia took in millions of foreign deportees, then dispersed them to distant parts of the Soviet Union, later-with the characteristic switch to benevolence-parceling them back to their own countries. The countries were often grateful. It was a technique Stalin and Beria had learned through experience. Then he returned to the MVD and became Minister of Internal Affairs...