Western Siberia
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Oct 11, 2026
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
It was a suicide mission.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Evacuees and refugees from the occupied and threatened territories were sent deep into the rear, with the majority of Jews resettled beyond the Ural Mountains, in particular in Western Siberia and also in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The materials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, EAK, contain the following statement.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Quote, "At the beginning of the Patriotic War, about one and a half million Jews were evacuated to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian republics.
Conrad VineGUEST
Um, but you know, there are, there are, uh, in, in my work with A2P, um, I, I come across many groups who have been, um, hurt.
Conrad VineGUEST
Uh, for instance, um, uh, in, in Western Siberia, um, which is actually a vast extent of territory, um, there is a, um, there, there was the West Siberian Union.
Conrad VineGUEST
And in the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, um, the division wanted to downgrade the unions in Russia to union mission status.
Conrad VineGUEST
Now, what that means is that if you're a union, the, then the, uh, members elect their own officers.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
It was a suicide mission.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Evacuees and refugees from the occupied and threatened territories were sent deep into the rear, with the majority of Jews resettled beyond the Ural Mountains, in particular in Western Siberia and also in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The materials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, EAK, contain the following statement.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Quote, At the beginning of the Patriotic War, about one and a half million Jews were evacuated to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian republics.
Matt MorseHOST
It's one of Russia's major oil hubs and has Europe's largest oil tank farm.
Matt MorseHOST
Multiple trunk pipelines converge there, bringing crude from Western Siberia, Tatarstan, and other regions from Russia for storage, pumping, and blending into the Ural's export-grade oil.
Matt MorseHOST
So another processing facility in Russia.
Matt MorseHOST
The Ukrainians struck this location as well.
Kate ListerHOST
Who was he? Where did he come from?
Douglas SmithGUEST
Well, he was born into a peasant family in Western Siberia, uh, later part of the 19th century, and really he, you would have thought he would've just had a life like all of his ancestors, basically working the land, farming, fishing, and that sort of thing.
Douglas SmithGUEST
But he had some sort of strange religious experience as a young man, and set off wandering all over Russia in search of religious enlightenment, which set him on a path that took him to places that no one ever could have imagined.
Kate ListerHOST
No, I mean, where he ended up from where he started, nobody could possibly have predicted that.