Word: siberias
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...thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little too hammy in his actions to suit an American audience, but his overacting detracts little from the film...
...Siberia's harvested area increased by 2,100,000 acres over last year. In Kazakstan and central Asia land sown to winter grains increased by a half-million acres; in the Black Earth region, by 1,250,000 acres. The ratio of men to women in Russia's fields was about 3-to-100 (prewar average...
Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...
Russia. ". . . Put aside your thoughts about Communism, godlessness. This is a fascinating country. The progress Russia has made is astounding. . . . Siberia is an inexhaustible storehouse of strategic war materials. I wish I could tell you. . . . In my judgment Germany will never conquer Russia...
...Japanese neither planned nor wanted. The Navy had forced a U.S. plan upon the Japanese. When the enemy plans were thus disrupted, the Navy knew that the Japs were concentrating great forces in the north; there was reason to believe that they were then plotting an invasion of Siberia. And 73 days after the Marines landed in the Solomons, Siberia had not been invaded. If the reason was the Solomons campaign, then the U.S. landing in the Solomons was the cheapest second front the Allies could have bought...