CIVILIAN MORALE IN THE CAUCASUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200140035-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: October 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
UKURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY ..USSR (Caucasus)
SUBJECT Civilian Morale in the Caucasus
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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This Document contain- lnforgation.ReotiqWtbw Na-
tional Dskn.. of O e U$ $ etzta#, witbin,thegpsan-
ims of, Title lt, eeattaoa 7p an4~7M, of ttu II,#. 0~14e,
amended. Its tern-' ca or revelation of it. ooatenpa
to or reoelpt by an unauthoetstd pars n iaVzoh)bited
by law. The rsproduetlan of this form is peublbited.
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a 2,$0 ruble-a-year tuition fee is being collected by
the' government' in schools above grammar sohool.' Mang families are un-
able +p, send their children to'schools not only because of the tuition
f494 but also because the children are needed on the kolkhosy.
2. Approximwtely 120#000 Armenians voluntarily immigrated to the Armenian 8$R
from various countries of the world. These people soon discovered that
ill of the promises made by the Soviets dike'to na ht.
ug By, and' by the
immigrants had, to Oil , all of their possosiio1sj and' in order to' survive)
they begs ,working in faotoriei and on ~colkhozy. Ai a rrsultagreat die-
Content arose among 'the immigrants who than began to grumble about their
plight-and talked about the good life they had led in the countries from
whiok they came. Such talk took diep foot amonf the Armenian people-and
'the Soviit govei+nmerit beganSi 'to 'take "ii4, iuris to iu preie its ' By this
time 0"t" numbers of ii kgrsnts b gam ' to' flee from 'the USSR. Malay
committed ,eujoide' and thousands, wit*, o6ftd6m>h6d'to prisons and sent to
Siberia for openly expressing their discontent, 'Gut of the 120,000
Armenians who immigrated to the Caucasus only about 500 immigrants 'remain.l
3e
the peoples of the Caucasus., were angry at the United
M us f or e a it gave the Soviet Union during World War I.
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00 Mat, t%4e peoples of the Caucasus would welcome and aid azw nation or
cc inatton of nations which would promise to break, up the k osy and
give the people a better life in the future.
0omment, Although this report does not give arty exact
e migration of the 120,000 Armenians, the report in
its entirety gives the impression that it is a post World War IT
il: gration.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFMIW ONLY
SATE X ARMY, X NAVY X A 1 R x FBI' AEC
(Homo WuAiw41an DI*1ballan Indhater, yr "X"i Fala DINrIbiNaa .BF
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30 October 1953
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