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The seizure of the Pueblo, the downing of the American EC-121 reconnaissance plane, the attempted assassination of South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean commando unit, and the recent revelation of North Korea's plans for unification of the Korean peninsula in the 1970s, raise numerous questions about the nature of the political system that has emerged from the Soviet occupation of Northern Korea in 1945-1948, during Stalin's last decade of rule.

This article evaluates the relationship among the railroad
staff of the Far East during the most dramatic events in the political
life of the country at that time—repressions. As a rule, Russian academic
literature indicates that few workers perceived the Soviet
state's mechanisms of pressure negatively. This article demonstrates
that the railroad staff's position was far more diverse than traditionally
argued, which is a result of the broad variety of social groups
working for the railroad in the Far East. The article demonstrates
this diversity of opinions by focusing on those events that affected a
significant number of railroad workers.

The Korean Peninsula has been Asia's Berlin Wall, where communism and democracy have directly confronted one another.