1. POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF THE INHABITANTS OF LENINGRAD 2. THE LENINGRAD CASE OF 1948-1950

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• Document Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY USSR (Ianingrad Oblast
SUBJECT 1. Politiosi Attitudes of the
7nh*bitamts of Leningrad
2. The Leningrrad Case of 1948.1950
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DATE DISTR. 8 August 1955
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PART VII
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the Leningraders constitute in cent .in ways a group di:~ ferent from the 25X1
Muscovites ~~nd other Rus ~i=~ns _ '''~
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broad-minded and intelligent, and also more outspoken in-their political ucomrtcY tse 25X1
They appear to feel they have not been given their due compared with other cities for
their leading part in the Bolshevik Revolution and their great sacrifices during the
Second World War. There is in LT TLNGR.D a large and politically conscious industrial
proletariat, which to some extent considers itself to have been neglected by the
Government in Ii0SCOV . Priority to other cities has been given in such matters as
reconstruction, accommodation and consumer goods. _ is inhabitants of the city of LENIN
the population feels itself vaguely sli.hted.
in the campaign against "cosmopolitanism" nanny persons often of Jewish origin) had 25X1
been removed from their poses. In addition, a faction of the local Komsomol organisation
had demanded a greater measure of autonomy end independence from MOSCOW. They objected
to a too rigid and doctrinaire political approach and felt that party discipline was
becoming too harsh. It was rumoured also that the LENINGR:L Obkompartii had questioned
some of the decisions of the Central Corru.:ittee, as a result of which some of the Party
officials were di6missed. The First Secretary, POPKOV was said to have stated publicly
thaL he perscnally was more to thank than ZEfD:,NOV for the organisation of excellent
resistance during the siege of the city in the Second World War.
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