INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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• Publication Date: March 16, 1953
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DATE DIST./[OMarch 1953
COUNTRY USSR DATE OF 3-9 February 1953
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SUBJECT INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES
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CPW Report No. 71 -- Inside,USSR
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CONTENTS
IDEOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES 2
Vigilance Campaign ................... 2
Alien Influence on Youth ............. 4
Know Thy Enemy ....................... 5
INDUSTRY ................................. 6
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The vigilance camaikn still gets'heavy play on the home service, and is exploited
indirectly in a variety of contexts ranging from agricultural shortcomings to
embezzlement of state funds and immorality in private life. School teachers are
enjoined to imbue their young students with a sense of "watchfulness," Komsomol:
and nonpartisan youths are urged to read available publications on "how to recognize
the enemy within" and Party organizations throughout the country are advised to
make the screening of applicants for membership more thorough than has been the came
heretofore. Political vigilance, like charity, begins at home, that is within the
ranks of the Communist Party, according to ZARYA VOSTOKA of 3 February. The Party
is the most coveted organization in the Soviet structure; spies and diversionists
"of every stripe" (veekh mastei) would like to worm their way in for "espionage
and sedition" purposes. The superficial and perfunctory manner in which new members
are admitted to the Party, says the editorial, "force us to make serious conclusions"
(zestavlyayut nas delat seryoznie vyvody), and one is that not a single person
anywhere in Tbilisi or elsewhere in the Republic is to be admitted to the Party
without an exhaustive preliminary investigation:
It must be remembered and never forgotten that
political vigilance is first and foremost designed
'to preserve the purity of the ranks of the
Communist Party.
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In a double page PRAVDA article on revolutionary vigilance broadcast on 6 February,
Kozev declares that the "recently unmasked disgusting group of corrupt Jewish
bourgeois-nationalists" provides additional proof,,if any were needed, that
intensified political vigilance must become second nature with every citizen of
the Soviet Union. He goes on to list the activities of Gurevich, Taretuta, Sao
and Romenov who, until their recent arrest, had managed to roam the country at
will and engage in a variety of anti-State activities. Involved also is the chair-
man of the Moscow Oblast Industrial Leather Trust (Mosoblkozhpromsoyuz), A. R. Malkis,
who is said to have helped the spy Romanov obtain a responsible job in Moscow
Oblast.
Reminding the Soviet people thst there can be no two view on the current inter-
national situation, Kozev admits that different opinions on the subject actually
have been voiced by "ill-starred politieiansf4 (gore-teoretiki), "dogmatistis and
scholastics" (dogmatiki i nachetchiki). Some of them "even went so far as to
say" (dogovorilis dazhe do togo) that the USSR was, no, longer threatened by
imperialism thereby imploying that a relaxation of vigilance was in order. Such
"reasoning" (rassuzhdenie) is said to be anti-Marx ian and harmful since it betrays
an underestimation of the potential danger residing in. the politically-unstable C PYRG HT
elements of Soviet society and the enemies" capacity of exploiting it:
It would be Wong to believe that with the liquidation
of the exploiter classes in the USSR international
capital lost the opportunity of recruiting its
agents within our country ... fragments of the
broken exploiter classes still exist here and there;
so do the disguised followers of the routed anti-
Soviet groups--Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries,
Trotskyites, Bukharinites and bourgeois-nationalists.
Oshibochno bylo by dumat. chto s likvidetsiev
ekspluatatorskikh klassov v USSR mezhdunarosniy
kapital poteryal vsyakuyu vozmozhnost verbovat
svoyu agenturu vnutri nashei strany ... oskolki
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razbitykh ekspluatatorskikh klassov koegde sokhranilis
do sikh por; sokhranilis I zamaskirovannie posledyshi
razgromlennykh antisovetskikh grupp--me
nshevikov,
eserov, trotskistov, bukharintsev,burzhuaznykh
.natsionalistov.
CPYRGHT
Referring to the class struggle (klassovaya borba), Kozev again implies thata
certain section of Soviet opinion held that since class warfare: was over in -the
Soviet Union it need no longer claim the concentrated-attention of Party theoreti-
cians... This eoitention is'countered by the assertion that the..class struggle-is a
permanent feature of international and Soviet life and cannot therefore be ignored. For. regardless of the forms it assumes--civil war,,,intervention,, `bldcl B.YRGHT
or border incidents "engineered by the Anglo-American intelligence"-_
Russian text:
the class struggle has been,, is and will remain a
struggle between Socialism,and capitalism.Qn.an inter-
national scale.
Klessovaya borba byla, set I budet borboy bezhdu'
sotsializmom I kapitalizmom v mezhdunarodnom
masshtabe.
I,gthier wards,. . o ev quoting Stalin, one end of the class struggle to
oPerat` o w'fithin the framework of the USSR the other and extends into the
bourgeois .stat'es that, surround us. .
A~broadcast from Dnepropetrovsk (4 February) quotes a ZARYA.editorial as saying
that there'is no difference between the common variety of "thieves of Socialist
property" and political subversives:. both are "a godsend to, the enemy" (nakhodka-'.
d,lya,vrega) To what length political carelessness., can go is cited in the case
of-the SinelnikovskyRayon Party Committee which approved a certain Rudenko for
the:pott of collective farm chairman without realizing that he had been "wanted
for` investigation" by the same Committee for a long period of time in connection
with'.Mie.;questionable behavior. Many swindlers and criminals are still at large,
according to the paper, because their friends holding influential position's in the
oblast trade union and other organizations "rescue and protect them" by providing
suitable Jobs for them. G. Alexandrov,,State Counsellor for the Justice Department
(gosudaretnenniysovetnik;Yustitsii)., writing in LITERARY C,AZETTE on 3 February
.also identifies the swindlers and thieves with such political criminals as spies.
and divetsionists since both of them are "Just what the enema is looking for."
Lack of Party vigilance, he says, has made it possible for three Soviet citizens
to dupe Soviet officials from the Kirghiz SSR to the Crimea and abscond with large
amounts of money by using different names and false reference documents. It is
also revealed that "a group of squanderers" (gruppa raskhititelei) had been
operating for a long time in Bashkir ASSR. The political aspect of their opera-
tions, Alexandrov intimates, may be deduced from the fact that one of the group's
leaders was a former big-time cattle dealer (krupniy skotopromyshlennik) and the
other a 'white guardist' (belogvardeyets).*
*As revealed in the: above-quoted article, the operations.of-the Soviet version of
"confidence men" are not without certain amusing features. The story is told of
a ,criminal "K" who upon arrival in any city would telephone the head of a local
enterprise representing himself as a visiting high official from the "periphery"
and asking for the employment of a lesser official allegedly accompanying him.
He would then show up at the appointed time as the mentioned "lesser official,"
and, with the excellent "telephone reference" (telefonnaya rekomendatsia) that
preceded him, would have no trouble getting the desired job.
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Many building organizations are failing to fulfill
the house-building plans every year .... Some enter-
prises of the oblast have slackened their attention
toward improving the working and living conditions
of the workers.
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The communal enterprises such as public baths, laundry, transportation awl electric
supply in the workers' settlements are said to be functioning very unsatisfactorily,
Interruptions in the Water supply are frequent in Prokofyevsk, Kiselevsky Lenin-
Kuznetsky and other towns. The network of repair shops is far too inadequate to
serve the people, the assortment of consumer goods produced.by the local industry
is limited and the quality "remains low" (ostayetsya nizkim). The oblast Pa-.-';
organizations, the report concludes, must put an end to the "harmful practic
of under-,,stimating the importance of the workers' material welfare" and devote
more time to the daily cultural and other requirements of the people. It is
revealed that most of those officials seldom if ever visit workers' dormitories
and other communal dwellings and are not even familiar with the conditions obtain-
ing there: "you cannot learn much by sitting in an office."
PRAVDA refers editorially (7 February) to a collective letter from the workers of
the Zarubino fishing trust, the largest in the Far East, to call attention to the
"vicious methods' (porochnie metody) of administration employed by the USSR Fishing
Industry. The letter, which was not broadcast, points out that structural defects
are frequently found on the fishing vessels delivered by the Ministry, and repair
materials for the fishing fleet are usually shipped'by the Ministry when it is too
late; that is, in the height of the fishing season. Serious shortcomings have
been noted also in the oil Industry, PRAVDA continues. The Ministry of that
industry and its subordinate organizations "are insufficiently familiar with the
situation on the spot" (nedostayet glubokago znania polozhenia del na mestakh).
This is particularly evident in Tatar ASSR where drilling operations are frequently
and unaccountably delayed, and in Bashkir ASSR where "little interest is shown"
(male interesuyutsye) In improving the technical skill of the industry personnel.
At the "?Ukrvodstroy" (Ukrainian Waterway Construction), where valuable materiels
are poorly guarded, a group of squanderers and thieves have been operating and
causing great losses. Tens of tons of petrol (desyatki Conn benzina.) hev' this
disappeared from one sector of that project, the Vasilievsly construction and
assembly division. Another gang of swindlers (gruppa zhulikov) is said to have
built a nest at the Krasno-Perekopsk sector and engage in squandering (ra7hazeri-
vanie) socialist property.
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