INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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CONTENTS
Agrlcultureo.??.oo..o.o..????o..oo.ooo.o..? 2
Industry............... .................... 5
Ideological Weaknesses ..................... 6
Party Activities ............ ............... 7
Soviet Patriotism .......................... 7
Children~s Programs......,.................. 8
Miscellaneous .............................. 6
Agriculture, Party activities and ideological weaknesses contimie to claim the attention
of Soviet regional transmitters, although s considerable portion of radio time is also
devoted to poor housing and libraries and other cultural deficiencies. Much stress ie
laid on the current autumn plowing which is said to be insufficient and inadequate.
Sugar beat harvestZng and cotton picking also come and@r close official scrutiny. There
is some evidence that the frequent breakdowns of agricultural machinery, particularly
tractors, though familiarly attributed to lax Party supervision and poor labor orgaxtiza-
tion, are closely linked with the living conditions o>r the tractor drivers. There is
little reference to industry and mining except in the context o? tradelunion activities
and socialist competition among industrial workers.
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Mast of the propaganda pressure in agriculture is directed toward the?completion of
annual t~.r. gets ahead of schedule, thAt ; ids, by the 3l,th October Revolution anniversary
on '1 November? Plowing, sugar~beEt harvesting and cotton picking are repeatedly re-
ferred to s.s the bottlenecks of agriculture and they are said to be short of the
minimum objectives by varying degree$I,' ; ?~i.ADYAN.SKA UKI3AINA (10 October) publishes an
appeal to X11. agxicultural worlrers of!the Ukraine to intercity their efforts in order
to meet their commitments by 7 November. Similar exhortations are broadcast from a
number of other regional sources,
The fz rat forthright ac~rntsslan that 3L.tu1Dl1 plowing is "well behind schedule" (vse
cache dalel:ro otstayet is contained iii'a $UGSKAYA ZARYA editorial (2 October). The
eblast a. a whole, in facts slipped toga low performance level by completing only
47~ of the target by the end of Septem;tler as compared with 71.5 in 1950. A number
of rayons----pa.rticu'arly Tzligulo-BFr?E:iain~ky, Voznesensl~r and Lysogorsl~r---have barely
managed ?t:o fvlf;li only half of their'i fiver-all plowing assignments as compared vrith
lest yE:ar. Poorly organized tr.a.etorix?epairing, inefficient supply of spare parts,
Cuel a;ui v~srte.r arc- given ss the mainreasnn for the poor .showing, and strict control
(terhniy kantral) i~ prescribed as t.hE','only remedy. Rseshei.ko and Merkushev, the
?esF?ective heads of the Oblast agricultural and cotton departments, are accordingly
urged to improve "this unbearable sithiation" (eto nesterpimoye polozhenie) by taking
effective r.!easures inc.luding, if needbeg a revision of the work quotas (peresmotr
rebo hi1:Y: roan) of etrery machlne~traator, station in the Oblast.
Li: Ling a number of rayons wia~h hovel Ili ehGCm a "considerable lack of leadership" in the
aT~ran.aation of grair. deliveries to t!rie $t--ate, O.RLOVSKAYA YRAVDA (2 October) for the
firs? ? irr~e ailudes to what might b~ :,onA~:rued as a refusal to deliver any grain:
" ??dn~7 ^er~ain colicstive farms have'I'~not even taken part in the grain deliver;/
carnpai~-r:." (...a neltotoric lmlkhozy ~idaztae ne prinyali uchastia v k:ampani.i lshlebodo-
z,,aerk ; Foaaowing is the paper ?s aa;esament of the oblast's agricultural activities,
by rsy~r,::, in familiar 5o*nettier'?~ino.l'ogy4
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Dro_lco~.?,1~;, Volodarsiry and Poi;ro~~~lsy'
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Za1~.eoscl-_.enslsy, Korsakovslry,
i ro~r~yan_?.iS}~ and S*.anovlyan_.ity
singular lack of use of agricultural
machinery and transport;
failed to achieve the required level
(of grain deliveries l
are _~tiLt in debt to the State.
~lowZn~: i:"?e vague charges of ''insuffici;ent attention" to plowing i.n most of the rayons
1- ;rode b;; t'OLOT (5 October), Fi.vP cf'li'tl~em--Alexeyevo~-Lcsovsl~, Anastasi.evsl~r }3ataisY.,
Orio~ralc; and Fgorlinsky--are singled outiaa extreme examples, but the reason given by
tre paper i s hardly more illuminating rthan the accusations "Their poor work is the
result of their. fatluse to grapple withid'el.aye ir. the operation of the machinery."
KOROVOC:F;ADSKA PRAVll.A's claim (5 October) (that the Oblast as a whole "is not worl~a.r-g
eatisfac tori_l.y" i s more specific, The' spring crop-plowing plan, it says, wsa completed
b,y orl.~~ X80"7;o by the end of September~~I'sand only 32.9% of the planned areas was plowed
by the aohine-tractor stations. The utter, however, are said to be "only
partiaL'y gu:Ilty" since the major fault;--inadequate supply of fuel, water, etc.--lies
F1=?where. Among the "many" re4yotis doing) ,a poor ,job, four are named as being
"specially in arrears"-~-~Adzhamsky, Khwelevslry, Dolynsky and T'yshkovsky. Five of the
mathine~Lractor stations serving other] ;reyona are doing "very badly," and one of them-
the Kra=noselska station---violated itsll agreements (narushayet svoi dogo~rory) witl-i the
coilerti.ve farms, having completed merely] 20;~ of the plowing under contract.
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CHBRVONL: ZAAORIZH7LE (9 October) calls attention to the slow fa11oW-plowing in the
Oblast whi?^h is causing "great anxiety~'';(peryoznoye opasenie)o Some rayons are as much
as a month behind schedule, and the olileiet as a whole is not much better off. The
ia.-niliar label of "bad leadership" isjpinned on the machine-tractor station directors
who arE displeyirg "ignorance of fielcll,work." This ignorance, the paper claims, resulted
in extrP.mely poor performanceo The Chap'syevsky station, for example, ploRec' only
about 650 out of the 7,000 hmctares specified in the plan. The Vassi].evsky stations
production is ,just about as low. Using', 10-12 tractors out of the 3l, available, it
completed 80 2`,?~ of the plan? it ' '' '
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;;u ar- ec~t arvesting~. The di:=closure that :.ugar beets (and potatoes) had not been
dug on "thousands of hectares" i~ made by RADYANSKA ZHITGMIRSCHINA (lU October).
'There is no mention of the reasons for this failure but the appropriate~Party,
goverrm!ent and agricultural officials are told to change their attitude and tc see
that. this "intolerable situation" does not ^.cntinue. Fopelr>,yansky, Berdychev,
Lubyanslty and other rayons are said to be -the slowe.t in the oblast?
RADYANSI?:~1 UKl'iAlN:A i5 October) tako_ a dim view oi' the sugar-beet situation in the
Ukraine a a whole, s,.imming it up in '.hc statement that the delayed harvesting
operations in the republic "lead to great losses of crops.." Suety, Poltava and Kiev
oblast_ are making "the worst .rog.rc~ns," and the other areas, as listed~~ibelow, are not
mucr: -oet :~:' ? I
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Sin thc,us, hectares)
Perfot~na.nce
!in thous. hectares)
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Sulry oblast.
3`?
21.;
P~lla~.ra obla~~t
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31.7
Kiev oblast.
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63.2 ~I
K_irovo~ rad c:blas ~
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13.9
Criernigw oblast
11
5.8
Ternopol obla:et
1V
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No f i~zure= are: gi~rer ?or G ;nnit.sa oblast ?rrhich, after showing "an example of good
organisation," has begun to lag behir.~.d and i_; still in arrears. (Of some interest,
in Ltu~t r_OTL'1e!'.tl~n, r=? a r~:port ?rom Kiev fir. dici,ation speed (5 October), saying
t:hay. an analysis of the Ukrainian sugar Indus+,ry ahow;= that prc:duction is running
aheari ui cliedule, and the pl~:cn has so fa.r been exceeded by 1Ct,~l.
!four much of the >rentioned failure i= due to red tape i~ indicated in the case of
Khotifzl;y .rayon (Su.~ry obla.=tl, Sugax-beet harvesting was t,o he completed there by
?0 w,-.t,.t.r;-nber, but the work schedule d.ravm. up for every collective farmi "remsined
hidden" i.n the de-ks of the Farty Committee until 24 September, vrhen it~iwas too late.
~n $:haxkcv oblast, wrack is on the whole urel]-organized, the damage to the best roots
^au^:~~d groat loses tc; the State, amounting i.n 5ome rayons to lc:~ of the entire crop.
Th~~ amc parer dep.lore~ the unneces_ary ti~xe l.ag Uetween t:h? harvesting', and the
~leli~rery oi' sugar beets--part.i.cularly in ~~innitsa and Kharkov oblasts--and points to
tree s~:~_~~ar_age>rsent of transportation facilities as th? oi:1.y rea~-on~ According to the
plan appro,*rd by the U'!crainia_n Council o.f Ministers. tha IC:arkov oblast~l~ authorities
wF'rr: t:o 3s^ign 6'92 trucks for sugar-beet t.?anGportation, but only 150 were made
ar~xi 1::~bla
~o to~i,?c,_kYz~:: 'I he cotton. =ituat.ion i.n Uzbek SSR, the largest cotton-growing area
in the Soviet Union, is discussed by PRAWA ou 3 October. The USSR Ministry of the
Cotton Lndustry and its organs, says the paper, are not paying sufficient attention
to the "correct utilization" of machinery much of which is remaining idle. This is
further aggravated by the fact that the Uzbek cotton pickers, having "given their
word'' (dav svoye slovol to deliver 500,000 tons of cotton more than last year, are
not Even up to echedule~ PRA~'DA intimates that even t-he Central Committee of the
Uzbek Party is not entirely faultless as ??he wo_ke=~s' promise to exceed last year?s
quota ''made it incwnbent cn...,the Central Committee of the Uzbekistan Communist
Ptlrty" to pay great attention 1;o the preparations for cotton harvesting~~. The
Party's final responsibility in the matter is vtressed in the editari.alassertion
t?t^.at neither. the har~.~esting nor the delivery plan for September has been full filled
by the Uzbek cotton industry. ~
Among the other centr-+~l A;;.iatic areas where cotton har?vest;ing calls fort, close official
scrutiny, according to PRAVDA, are Kirghiz SSR which "failed to cope" with the
impl.ement?ation of the plan, and Stavropol and_:rasnodar krais which "are progressing
very slowly:" ~
That cotton harvesting fir. the Ukraine has deteriorated in the past two Ivreeks may be
inferred from RADYANSKA UKRAINA (!, October). I't lists five oblastai as running
bEhind schedule, and two of them--Nikolayev and Odessa--as being especially bad.
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As poi.ntea out in a previous CPW report, this paper castigated the cotton authorities
of Kherson and Nlxclayev oblasts for the poorest showing in the Republic. That
charge hu= new been extended to include 7aporoahye, Odessa and Stalin oblasts whose
dereliction is attributed partly to "poor mass political work" on the~part cf the
Party or~anizaticns. The chief cause, hcwever,_accurding tc the paper, islto be
not assisting" the
define the type of
deplorsi,l~ results
.least three rayons
quct.a, in ai~cther
obla:'-t as ~vl-iole ,
(it) Fulfilled the
collective i'armery in t,aotr errorts. me eaitioria.~ aoe~ nv~
assistance the Ministry failed to offer but merely points to the
that this failure brcutTht about. In Zaporozhye oblast alone, at
have i~een unable t.o account for more than one fifth cf their
r,yon, Velil:o-Br_-lozersky, t; he performance was 11.8, As for the
the paper says that. "there has Pict been a single d~.y during which
State cotton delivery quota."
Takii~; its rue frc.~m ..RtiDYIuNSK1'c UKRAINlt. F]ULSIiEV?TSKOYI: ZNAMYA (5 October) looks into
the grin C01.'tGrl situation of Odessa ~~;Ulast and declares that it is "the most back-
ward" in the Rept:ulic. hmonr_ the s?:ertccmings than; contributed tc? t ~ sorry state
ni ai,fair~ r.rre lour labor discipline, "extratnely poor" organization of~work and 'an
"int.ol.erable dune lag" betvreer. the har~restir,,g rind the delivery of cot on. Listed as
the v~orst rayons are Razde7.u~yanslry, Herezovsky, ICominternovsky and Iv~novsky, but
"a s:imilr~r ituation" i~ said tc exist. in many other .rayon.
NAnN>/F'RYA11;;K:^. PRAVDA (10 October) cc,rrrplains that cotton picking in Kherson oblast has
reached a ne~l lour, and demands a "decisive" ~reshitelny} i.nc.rease in harvesting tempos.
Kalininsl: : a;;cn vrhich "occupies next to the last place" in the oblast in point of
efficiency i= pil]oried fur tolerating =uch a low daily output as 16 }cilograms per
.cotton piclter. (Tliere i_ n:urope!' from oppression and slavery. The patiotism theme
i~ developed further in the conclusion that there can be no world science,
literature and music without such great Russian luminaries zn those resp'ectivs
fields as Lomonosov, the "discoverer" of the law of atomic structure, the poet
Pushkin, the composer Tchaikovslry' and others. Discussing the larger aspects of
patriotism, Niskoy points t.o Marxism-Leninism as final authority for the belief
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gard a bourgeois state ay its fatherland. Hence true
that the proletariat cannot r
patrioti~rt is possi'b1e only is a proletaz?ian state. The proof of such patriotism is
in the cruriul test of defending the Soviet Union which "is a duty act only oi' the
ci.~,izena of the Soviet Union but of every honest man in the world."
T2,e Ultrainian people, Idiskoy concedes, "also have their past" cu,d should be proud of
it. That "past," it appears is inextricably tied to their struggles against foreign
oppressor... -~il '.:hey "united vrith the brotherly Russian people. "
CHILDP.EPI `S PROGR'WLS I,
The radii josnal PIOI~EASV C~h4PFIRE No. 31 tells ite youthfia a?,idience that "the
throat cf anew war ha= overshadowed the tvhele world," and that the conspiracies of
the t~:lt;lo-luneric~:n imperialists make it clear who wants to start a new war. (Kursk,
Q October). A broadcast f. or ,junior- school children in Ukrainian ('Kiev, 10 October)
tells a sr,cn?y of a little boyj in London whose lather was l:ill.ed by a policeman during
a m::rch of unemployed cn the street, and whose mother and sister s:.=bsequently died
of hnnL;er,. Recalling what hej had heard abc,ut the Soviet Union, the little boy
sudde:;l; realizes that all children them lead a happy life. The upshot of the story
is that tl,e boy. :~~,xicus b~.a linable i;o visit that "wonderful country," also realizes
tl,~~t he is "act alone" since the >.vorkc?rs r_f berth the USSR and England are fighting
fcn? his cause. ii
hiISCI:LI,cuI];OUS
1Jledic_inal: ~Ierbs. A repct?+ frcam Tbili i (ir. Russian, 11 October) speetks cf the
sub-tr~~pical, volatile oi.l-bearing plant "aloe" now cultivated on a large scale in
a special Sovkhoz (State fa.rm). The juice extracted from that plant is said to be
very useful in biogenetical therapy. .lLtzother medicinal plant now under cultivation
is thn (tviadi). Developed by Soviet scientists from the "h2e::iccuz 'fea" plant, it
yield= a type of oil which Mused effectively to combat intestinal worms. The bush-
typc plru,t knovm as "cat'': whis~sera" (lcashachiy us) is said to have become k'nrnm
recently in medicine as "an e?fecti~?e remedy" against kidney trouble and ,jaundice.
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