>The effect on Siberia should be pretty hefty. Maybe Nikolai "I want
>cornfields in Siberia!" Khrushchev's dream will at least become a >reality.
I now write:
If the grain belt moves some degrees of latitude north across the Amur River, mark my words: there will be more and more "illegal" migration of land-poor and landless Chinese peasants into the Russian Far East, and cross-border tensions (drummed up by demagogic scofflaws) will mount.
John Gulick
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