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Political Farce. Stalin put him in charge of Soviet atomic development. His great contributions: 1) information gathered by his spies in the U.S. and Britain from Fuchs, May, Pontecorvo, the Rosenbergs, et al.; 2) uranium mined by his prisoners and impressed workmen in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and, probably, Arctic Siberia. While the Cominform's Andrei Zhdanov was making the most noise about eastern Europe, Beria quietly stepped down from his police job (now a full ministry, the MVD) and took over the organization of the satellite countries, the consolidation of the Soviet Union's own republics...
...bureaucracy under which Russian oilmen are forced to work is so top-heavy, writes Smirnov, that Russians guardedly refer to it as "one with a plow and seven with spoons." Bringing in a dry hole is a criminal offense punishable by banishment to Siberia. On geological expeditions, food is always so short that to feed a field party of 25 a manager is forced to "add another 25 'dead souls' to his roster, thus getting food for 50 men, which is barely enough to feed his crew...
...first issue of Pravda came out in 1912. Molotov was soon arrested and exiled to Siberia. When the Revolution came in 1917, he was a hunted escapee, hiding in Petrograd with a faked passport. He cheered on the revolutionary masses when the Czarist government collapsed, organized the Petrograd Soviet...
John Quincy Adam's real name in Eskimo means "the women." He was given his Boston surname by white traders. John, the chief of the Eskimo crew, delights in telling in his pidgin English of his world travels. The white men who first recruited him took him to Siberia to trap furs. The Russians, however, took his furs from him. Carter described this incident as "just another example of Russian-Alaskan strained relations." He said there have always been ill feelings across the Bering Strait...
...lodged a protest. But it was quickly discovered that routine weather flights from Alaska usually do not reach farther west than the Attu area, 375 miles east of Kamchatka. In the Senate, a Democrat and a Republican questioned Air Force judgment in sending the B50 so close to Siberia and wondered how the U.S. would feel about a routine Soviet flight 25 miles off the U.S. coast...