Word: siberias
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...Soldiers had attacked him with a knife, slashing his eyes but taking care to let him live. "There!" said one of the Russians. "Go to the other German dogs and tell them we'll destroy them all. We'll cut out their eyes and send what's left to Siberia . . . Now get going...
...Chechen Ingush autonomous republic in the Caucasus, has blossomed into outright rebellion, and the secessionists last week defied a plea to lay down their arms. A much larger ethnic group in southern Russia, the Tatars, declared their region to be independent last week, and even some ethnic Russians in Siberia and the Far East are talking about setting up a breakaway republic...
...well. A privileged class developed anyway, and everybody had less of everything. But still they made the effort, realizing too late what Marx had said all along: A communist revolution in an undeveloped country means a redistribution of poverty, not a cable-ready cornucopia. Still, this cultural and political Siberia gave Soviets security. Their security was cheap, badly designed, and falling apart. But it was security...
...Hope, Raisa describes her early years as one of three children of a railroad engineer in Siberia. Money was so tight that she did not own a real overcoat until she went to college. "Everybody remembers the coat," she says. "It really was a milestone in the family history...
Coal miners in Siberia and the far north left their pits. Resolutions condemning the Emergency Committee were passed in communities from Sakhalin Island in the far east to Petrozavodsk, near the border with Finland. In Leningrad tens of thousands gathered in front of the Winter Palace, which Lenin's forces had stormed to begin the Bolshevik Revolution...