SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Publication Date: July 16, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
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SOVIET UNION - EASTERN EUROPE
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the USSR - Eastern Europe Division, Office of Current Intel-
ligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the
Directorate of Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should
be directed to the authors of the individual articles.
July 16, 1975
Czechoslovak Repression Under Fire
from Italian Communist Party. . . . . . . . . . 3
Changes Noted in Local
Party Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Czechoslovak Repression Under Fire
from Italian Communist Party
Renewed tensions between the Czechoslovak and
Italian Communist parties may create further prob-
lems in the already troubled preparations for a
European conference of Communist parties. The
bilateral squabble has never been far below the sur-
face since the Husak regime came to power in 1969.
Unita, the Italian party's official organ, on
Tuesday blasted Prague for mistreating "scores of
its intellectuals" and charged the Husak leadership
with violating "one of the foundations of socialist
democracy"--freedom of culture. The move was
ostensibly made in response to the "tragic
letter"
that
Karel Kosik, a Marxist philosopher in
Prague,
sent
to Jean Paul Sartre. Kosik's letter
described
the
increased repression that has followed
Husak's
speech on April 16 condemning Dubcek and warning
dissidents.
Kosik's letter was made available to Western
news services in late May, when another commentary
in Unita described the situation in Czechoslovakia
as "extremely grave." The Italian party's decision
to replay the Kosik letter and to increase polemics
with Prague at this time may be tied to the prepara-
tions of a European party conference.
The Italian party has played a leading role in
opposing Soviet attempts to formulate a binding
program, and several sessions of the drafting com-
mission in East Berlin have thus far failed to
hammer out documents acceptable to all parties.
Meanwhile, the Italian party denies that it
has received a letter from Dubcek reportedly re-
questing that the issue of Prague's repression be
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placed on the conference agenda.
the Italian, British, panis ,
and Yugoslav parties have already warned Moscow that
they would find it hard to participate in the con-
clave if Prague takes harsh measures against Dubcek
or his followers. Spanish party leader Carrillo
has even indicated that he would support the Dubcek
position should it be raised at the conference.
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Changes Noted in Local Party Organizations
Changes in Soviet personnel at the first and
second secretary level of local party organizations
continue. This third report reveals that the rate
of local shifts has neither decreased nor increased
significantly since our last report (Staff Notes,
June 4). The following shifts have occurred:
RSFSR:
June 25: Fedor Petrovich Burmistrov, 1st sec-
retary of Karachayevo-Cherkessk Oblast, was trans-
ferred to other work, and was replaced by V. S.
Murakhovsky (formerly secretary of the Stavropol
Kraykom).
July 11: Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov, 1st sec-
retary of Voronezh Oblast, was named 1st deputy chair-
man of RSFSR Council of Ministers, and was replaced
by Vadim Nikolayevich Ignatov (formerly 2nd secretary
of Leningrad Obkom).
Tadzhikistan:
April 24: Aleksandr Ivanovich Shitov, 2nd sec-
retary of Tadzhikistan, was replaced by Yury Ivano-
vich Polukarov (formerly a sector head in the CC,
CPSU Organizational-Party Work Department). On
May 13, Shitov, who is a candidate member of the CPSU
Central Committee, was appointed 1st deputy chairman
of the USSR People's Control Committee.
Ukraine:
April 23: Aleksandr Ivanovich Ishchenko, 1st
secretary of Sumy Oblast, was relieved under criticism
and replaced by Ivan Grigoryevich Grintsov (formerly
secretary of Donetsk Obkom).
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May 13: Ivan Petrovich Dryzhak, 2nd secretary
of Khorezm Oblast, was transferred to other work and
was replaced three days later by Boris Anatolyvich
Novitsky (formerly 2nd secretary of the Kara-Kalpak
Obkom).
May 16: V. V. Kislev was named to replace
Novitsky as 2nd secretary of Kara-Kalpak ASSR.
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