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Show Krassin's Strange Career KRASSIN. the Russian Bolshevik Minister Min-ister of Trade and Commerce be-ppp. be-ppp. longed to a respectable family of B uncertain origin '.hat settled In the S'herlan !jBJ province of Tobolsk nearly a century ago. As .i youth he went to school In Tyumen. Bj where his father had a house on the banks IHB or the Tura. The Siberian exiles then pasd H on foot through Tyumen on their way to HV banishment. The sight filled the boy K'rc- fli sin with horror, and evorcd his fir.' revo- J lutlonry .ncllnatlons. HH Krassln was admitted tc the Technological HHj Institute at Petrograd. and finished his edu- M atlon as an engineer in Berlin. He U iu:m H bered among the world's great masters of H the science of electrification. H In March 1919. he became COmcrtlaaary of H iransvrtatlon for tho Soviet Ciovcnment HJBJj He sought to reorganize the ruined railwa. Bj first and next rallmaklng factories H Kraaaln ' described as meek of manner. H melancholy of face and dressed In aobar H black, shabbier than the average British H "bag |