RUSSIA: Go East, Young Man!

Russia is an Asiatic country, and I myself am an Asiatic, Joseph Stalin once told a Japanese diplomat. "Our country is both European and Asiatic. The largest part of our territory lies on the Asian continent." said roly-poly First Party Secretary Khrushchev five months ago in India. Last week Stalin's heirs were showing increasing determination to make Asians out of millions of other Russians.

Some 1,200,000 Red army soldiers, ostensibly discharged as a gesture toward disarmament, were being urged to settle in the New Lands of the Soviet Far East. In the party organizations, half a million young Communists were...

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