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This was "free exile." Conditions in the lagiers were much worse, and often fatal. A member of the executive council of the Polish Socialist Party was sent to a gold-mining camp in eastern Siberia. The work day was 12 to 15 hours long. Since the ground was frozen most of the time, the mining was done largely with crowbars and chisels. The size of the bread ration depended on the amount of work performed. Feeble, inefficient or unwilling workers were taken aside and shot...
...Vakhlin was expelled from the party and fired from his job. Later, for unstated reasons, he was reinstated in the party and is now trying to practice law. But, runs the coy official moral, "the cow won't be reincarnated and the bologna has been eaten." Minimum meaning: Siberia is vast, and there is always room there for another Russian...
Occasionally the alliance really worked. From time to time U.S. flyers bailed out or force-landed in Siberia after a bombing raid against Japan. According to international law, the flyers could have been interned, since the U.S.S.R. was not then at war with Japan. But the Russians transported them to a convenient frontier and allowed them to "escape" into U.S. hands. Another exception was a working arrangement between U.S. and Soviet intelligence agencies, which General Deane says was not only profitable but was carried out with "the utmost cordiality and good will...
There are three such "source regions" of cold air: Siberia, northern Canada and Antarctica. The first two are fairly well known to meteorologists; but the interior of Antarctica is still something to guess about...
...last expedition (1935) Rear Admiral Richard Byrd recorded a temperature of -90° F., almost equaling Siberia's record. He believes that the air above the polar plateau may be found to fall below...