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...homelands, they had found temporary asylum in Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace...
...Joseph Stalin, professional revolutionist, was exiled to Kureika, Siberia. At 35, he had given all of his adult years to underground Bolshevik work, and it seemed they had been spent in vain. To Olga Alliluyeva, his future mother-in-law, he wrote a letter thanking her for food parcels and asking only for a few picture postcards: "In this accursed country [of frozen tundras] I have been overcome by a silly longing to see some landscape, be it only on paper...
From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...
...could visualize hordes of Communist-trained Chinese troops swarming across Siberia to tear down Western civilization, I'd get excited. But I can't see it. It's not in the nature of the Chinaman to be a Communist. Moscow can't organize China for Communism, even if Moscow tries its damndest...
Only Stalin escapes this effect. "Perhaps," reflects T & C, his "plain* uniforms, quite unrelieved by any insignia . . . are studiedly symbolic of the wastes of vast Siberia . . . a perennial reminder of the Russian military might or might-not, a sort of sartorial sabre rattle...