AGRARIAN POLICY IN POLISH TERRITORY CODED FROM EASTERN GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01035R000100010009-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Poland
MJET aerarian Policy in Polish Territory
Ceded from Haetern Germany.
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1. Government proms:aft has recently publicised the localisation *five!.
transfers made to settlere in the provinces cede& from 'astern Germaay0
close analysis indicates that the Oammuniot roils, is not interested in the
creation of a serong and self-sustaining peasant clasp. On the control?, act
agrarian policy is designed to keep the villages impoverished and dependent
upon Government aesistaece. Private land ownership to limited to embolic
holdings for propaganda reasons. Thus the regime can retain more effective
political control of the peasant class?
. In territory ceded
2 million hectares
1,100.000 Hee
8000000 Ha.
from Seetern Germaey the Polish state has taken abouA
of arable land which has been disposed of as follows:
Hetained under direct state ownership.
. Transferred to the Red Army, Polish Army, educational
institutions, and Industrial concerus such as coal
mines and steel mills.
100.000 HA. - Parceled out to new settlers.
30 Land plots parceled out to new settlers are too small to be self-sustain-inc.
Neves of three hectares (sad even one or two heater.* for those who had no
land) have been reported in the press. This policy is inconsistent with any
rational economy and contradicts the Goverumentue prewar plans and the program
of the Polish underground. Which set a peasentls farm at 8.15 hectares as a
self-sustaining mistakes. The 8.15 hectare mistime was also prescribed in the,
&Varian reconstruction program annotimeed by the Goma]. for National Unity on
15 March 1944.
4. The arable land retained by the state is under the bureaucratic control of the
?Adainlstration of State-Owned Lends.? This administration employs stout l00000
peasants as agrarian workers. The effect of this organisation is to create a
new proletarian class in place of the independent farm holders called for in
the original procrams.
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5.0 The current system results in inefficient exploitation of landc. The production'
from land under state or military and institutional control is much lower than
that from land worked by individual settlers, Official statistics indicate
that crops from state-administered lands last year were only 40% of normal
production. While the newly-formed peasant farms, though they had no technical
assistance at their disposal, achieved in output equal to 6$% of normal
production?
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