Siberia s People

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This, as another public service of the National Broadcasting Company, is the background story of the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight, because of the growing interest in Russia on the Pacific, we repeat the story of Siberia's people.

Siberia's people, the secret of her strength. That man came out here from Leningrad. The Bornean, the mine director, pointed to a blonde version. And that man down there came from the Ukraine. From the grain fields of the Ukraine to here in Siberia.

And that man over there came from the Danjid Space Inn. He came out here to teach this Yakuts here how to mine with madder machauner. Five hundred miles inland from the Sea of Akuts in the region of Yakuts, men from all over the U.S. S.R.

are working alongside the native Yakuts, the slantide Asiatics, who for centuries have trapped and traded in this frozen wilderness. The European Russians worked with them with zeal and enterprise. Those Russians came out to Soviet Russia not in chains as I came forty years ago.

They came out here because they wished to come. The Ponian had come to Siberia as an exile. Twenty million Russians came out here to Soviet Asia in the first year after Hitler attacked us in 1941.

Twenty million in the first year. More have come since. The slow migration to Siberia, which had begun long ago as a mere trickle, had overnight turned into a flood. The European Russians came back and baggage to work out their destiny with the Akuts, the Tunguses, the Lopare, the lupari, the koi yaks, the giliaks, the samoyed.