Word: yakutsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not for that squirrel-headed general, Harry would be in Stalag 17 or better in Yakutsk digging for iron...
...about their jobs under the eyes of armed MVD agents. Almost all the buildings in the area are put up by slave-labor construction gangs, but the difference between the working conditions of "free" and slave labor in Siberia is negligible. Salisbury also saw the infamous political prison outside Yakutsk, which Henry Wallace once described in glowing terms after a carefully "conducted" tour. Wallace did not know, said Salisbury, that his guide was the Siberian MVD chief. (Wallace later manfully apologized for his mistaken report...
Salisbury's grim description of Russian forced labor around Yakutsk was all the more startling in light of a "Picture Report on Siberia'' that ran in the Times barely three months ago, when Salisbury was still in Russia. "The correspondent," said the text accompanying the pictures, "was particularly impressed by the city's cultural institutions" and "excellent" schools. The captions also mentioned the "well-carpentered" houses, city library, and a nursery "somewhat comparable to a U.S. nursery." Nowhere did the picture story mention that the area Salisbury was describing was in the heartland of what...
...Russian rail and highway system, linking these troop dispositions and reaching toward the North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...