REPORTS SERIOUS SCARCITY OF FOOD, CLOTHING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050567-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 567
• Publication Date: April 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION;
CENTRAL INTELLI`LiJ" L AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIC, BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Albania
SUBJECT Economic, Sociological - Standard of living
HOW
PUBLISHED Irregular periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Rome
DATE
PUBLISHED 10 Jan 1952
LANGUAGE French
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
REPORTS SERI:0US SCARCITY OF FOOD, CLOTHING
The following detailo were furnished by an individual who left Albania
in November 1951, after a clanuestine stay of about 13 months. The observa-
tions apply chiefly to the northern part of Albania, especially the region
of Gafa Malit, Va I Dejes. Besha, Kurbin, and Ktelle.
The greatest concern of the people is the lack of food, especially bread.
People are starving because of thy.o year's drought and the scarcity of farm
workers. The few able-bodied men not mobilized for other jobs. belong to farm
cooperatives which operative on a .cllective basis. From the cooperatives the
people receive too little flour to support life. The harvest is stored in
government warehouses and only a few brave peasants dare to keep a little rather
than see their families stave
Only the aged who are incapable of wors are left at home. Hence, some
fields are uncultivated. Thr quotas which the peasants must turn over to the
government sometimes exceed the crops The annual quotas assigned are; 5 to 20
quintals of grain. 25 to 30C Cilogrars of beans, 5 to 50 kilograms of wool,
50 to 500 eggs, and 5O to 700 kilograms of meat In addition, they must pay
taxes varying between. 1C.000 aria 41,060 leks Such taxation will eventually
ruin the peasants.
The monthly allotment of wheat is 6 kilograms per person, but often there
is no distributic-+. Only Demon; unions and officers' families receive these
allotments. Families of "reactionaries" and kulaks receive none. On many days
bread is not available at all.
Black market price. -jr.- rtr