CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE WESTERN UKRAINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R001500060003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - US OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR) REPORT NO. CSDB-6036
Current Economic and Political T
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Kolkhozy have been established in all villages throughout the Carpathian oblasts
in the Western Ukraine where the land is suitable for cultivation. Since mid-1952,
kolkhozy in the mountainous regions of the Western Ukraine have been exempt from
furnishing the State with a quota of their produce and taxes on individual
kolkhozniki have also been reduced. All kolkhozy have their own armed guard
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2. The majority of the population in the mountainous regions of the Western Ukraine
work in the oil fields and forest industries, where they earn a good wage, 50X1-HUM
strengthen their propaganda, - --+- .,, ...- ...,..L.`Wa VV
4. There were no mass deportations from the Carpathian oblasts in the Western Ukraine
during 1952. However, during the past several years individuals from the Western
Ukraine have been forcibly resettled in the Eastern Ukraine.
5. The general situation in the Western Ukraine has not changed as a result of Stalin's
death.
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a two-fold effect: 1) to obtain the support of known dissatisfied elements, 50X1-HUM
primarily kolkhozniki9 in the Western Ukraine; and, 2) to deny members of the
Ukrainian resistance movement operating in the area access to food and to nullify
the propaganda activities of the resistance organs among the population of the
Western Ukraine.
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