1. BULGARIAN LIVING CONDITIONS 2. THE TKZS ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005600890007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.O. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT 1. Bulgarian Living Conditions
2. The TKZS Organization
DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 26 January 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The general situation in Bulgaria has improved in the past.two years
because of an {ncrease in production in nearly all economic sectors
which also brought about an increase in salaries and therefore resulted
in the possibility of purchasing products sold on the market.
2. A factory worker now receives an average of 25-30 leva daily, and may
reach 60 leva if he is specialized. In spite of this it is necessary
that other members of the family work since foodstuffs and clothing
are generally expensive. Factory and office workers, however, are
better off than farmers. Office workers receive an average of 500
levy per month, and in some cases as much as 800 leva.
3. At present there is active propaganda toward persuading the peasants
to become members of the TKZS (Trud.ovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko Stopantsvo;
Labor Cooperative of Agrarian Farmers). In spite of this, the peasants
are reticent to join. Official propaganda stressp- +hA.t those who are
members of the TKZS are happy because they have derived sal prosperity
and benefit from the use of technical equipment they received from the
government. Actually, provisions established by the statutes of the
cooperatives are still too onerous and the peasants, as long as they
can, prefer to administrate their own property personally.
4. A peasant who joins the 'SKIS places his property at the disposal of the
collective for a 5-.year period. The collective is formed of an average
of 30-40 members. If at the completion of the five years, the peasant
wishes to withdraw from the cooperative, he is in danger of not getting
back his own piece of land, which may be located in the center of the
cooperative, and therefore not returnable; but in its place he may be
granted another piece of land which will have the same dimensions but
not the same productivity. Furthermore, peasants who are members of the
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cooperative receive only a portion of the products grown while the
largest percentage is kept by the State. Not all cooperatives are
unprofitable, however. That of Pazardzhik, for example, is very
well organized and is equipped with Soviet agricultural machinery
which is excellent.
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