RELIGION AMONG MVD TROOPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R001300110028-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: October 26, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Sverdlovsk Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT -religion Pao :g MMD ?`roops DATE DISTR. 26 October 1956
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1. Guards around ramp 511026 at Asbest were MYD troops.
observed Moslem religious rituals, including prayers
the East.
with their heads towards
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3. The guards were friendly to the German PWs and often traded or sold items
to the PWs, of course when none of their superiors were present. Among
the NICOs and officers also there were Uzbeks and other minority nationalities
from the Cauca.=us, as well as men from the Ukraine and other parts of the
Soviet Union. The drafted men,however, were predominn.. t1y
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