COMMUNIST CHANGES AND LIVING CONDITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790124-4
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

DEC 1981 51-48 Approved For Release 2006/11/05: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500790124-4
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Hungary
Communist Changes and Living Conditions
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
DATE D I STR // Jan 1954
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. There has been a good deal of talk in the worm press to the effect that tha
Communists have "altered their political attitude to an astounding degree.
tof improvealleviations,
con internal
The fact is tiously has been nothing but a
unendurable. The purpose series
conditions previously exaggerated.
political situation. But all this can easily be 2. The assertion that one-third of the members of the state security police have
been discharged has no relation to the truth.
t ext i1es haver, ebeen
3. It is true that the prices of the necessities of slightly increased.
reduced. It is also true that wages have been e ela
stand loan. with a compulsory contribution of half a
this Improvement the went
month's wages
4. The difficult position of the Hungarian worker may be seen from the following
figures: In 1939, an industrial worker of the medium group got, on an average,
a monthly wage of 95.25?periga? on an average he had to spend 25.45 pengo, or
roughly 27 percent for rood. For all the other necessities of life, he had th such 75 percent.of left. In
gQ contrast wageiof 56o f'orint-. out
of in th 477,85 foriat,, or more than 73 percent
of this , he had to spend, on an average, 2 ercent he had to make a
of his wages on food alone. Out of the remaining 27 p re oh two percent, and
member's Party contribution of one percent, pay union
pay to -the annually renewed state loan, which takes nearly a month's wage.
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In spite of the reported changes, the actual feeling of security of people living
in Hungary has grown no stronger, though it is true than religion and the church
are not so fiercely attacked as previously. It is a striking fact that
deportation has been discontinued. Furthermore, the freedom of movement of
thom already deported is not limited. Those formerly deported cannot, however,
settle anywhere without a permit. Numerous deportees from Budapest, when they
tried to return there, were refused permission. The internment .camps are now
being given up. The compulsory laborers who wore., being used in rebuilding the
royal fortress in.Budapest, in the building materials factory in Alberttalva,
and part of those in the Rakosi Works in Ceepel, have bean taken away and placed
in the mines. Internees who did. not come under the terms of the amnesty have
been put into the already overcrwded state prisons.
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