ECONOMIC - FUEL AND POWER, RATIONING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210120-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: March 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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HOW
PUBLISHED Semimonthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Paris
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 15 Dec 1952
REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
B.E.I.P.I. (Bulletin de ,'Association d'Etuden et d'Informations
pro 3 i~ ques internationales)
NEW RUMANIAN FUEL RATION LAW
Jomment: The followir.;, taken from the 1 - 15 December
1952 issue of 3.E.I.P.1., reports a new Rumanian law on fuel
rationing and assigns a political and not an economic motive
for the action.]
On i November 1952, the Council of Ministers and the Central Committee
of the Rumanian Workers' Party enacted a law for the rationing of fuel sup-
plies. All buildings were classified in one of three categories:
1. Industrial enterprises, which receives heat as of 1 November.
2. Public buildings, hospitals, and meeting places, which receives
heat according to their need.
3. Dwelling places, which receives heat "a=cording to their needs,"
only between 1 December and 15 February.
Men working "for the interest of the masses" are excepted. These are:
scientists, doctors, writers, journalists, architects, music'ans, opera
singers, and meritorious artists. Also exempt from strict fuel rations are
Stakhanovites, socialist builders, and laborers and white-collar workers
with large families.
The decree imposes heavy penalities on all those who obtain wood or
coal on the black market, to the detriment of the national economy. Punish-
ment consists of fines, revocation of dwelling permits, and 3-6 months' im-
prisonment.
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The restrictions created by the present ordnance cannot be justified
as a measure of public economy, inasmuch as crude nil, wood, and natural
gas are among the principal resources of the country. The reason for this
action is political. Workers are forced to try to become Stakhanovites.
White-collar workers attempt to enter the categories of "activists" and
builders of socialism. The remainder of the population, which does not
fall into any of these categories must spend hours watching Communist-prop-
agenda motion pictures in order to pass some time in well-heated motion-
picture houses.
In this manner, fuel serves as a political weapon in the hands of the
Rumanian government.
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