POLITICAL INFORMATION: RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS REMAINING IN CHINA PROPAGANDIZED BY SOVIET OFFICIALS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000710006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 5, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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Although Soviet propaganda usually declares that Moscow is not interested in the
fate of the remnants of the White Russian emigrants in China, Moscow still pays
great attention to these emigrants and considers work among them as an important
task of the USSR staff in China. After the completion of the current repatriation
program, there will be approximately 2,5030 persons with Soviet citizenship papers
in Shanghai; part of these Soviet citizens are those who postponed their repatria-
tion upon the advice of local Soviet leaders and part, mostly wealthy Jewish people,
will definitely never go to the USSR as they prefer to remain in China until they
feel free to migrate to some place abroad other than the USSR. In addition to the
Soviet citizens remaining in Shanghai there will be approximately 6,000 .kite Rus-
sian emigrants remaining. Moscow considers the presence of so many emigrants an
undesirable situation, especially with regard to possible future developments in
Far Eastern affairs. (See paragraph 5, below
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3. New instructions from Lozovsky head of Far East Inforuabure j to Sov `-et
Shanghai. Consul-General Khalin,and Rogov, Tass chief, e)pres-!ed regret tzi ...local
,ion) Soviet leaders appeared idle in working out an ef:iectl e plan to get more emigranto
to become Soviet citisene. Lozovsky. recanmended some measuros which in his opinion
would bring more emigrants to the Soviet side.
in the original statutes of the Club.
4. Khalin and Rogov called a special conference of Shanghai Sov'.et public leaders and
proposed, as one measure to gain more converts to Soviet citizenship, to open the
Soviet Club and the Soviet Polyclinic to all Russians whether Soviet citizens or
Russian emigrants. The Polyclinic will be reorganized and Russian emigrant doctors
will be invited to work in the clinic, and all Russians will be permitted to use
the clinic. The Soviet Club,,''in line with this new measure, must introduce changes
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Local verbal Soviet propaganda continues to present the White Russian emigrant'1X6
position in China as hopeless from the point of view of future accommodation and
safety. This propaganda, insists that neither the United :eta,-11-es nor other countries
will allow Russian emigrants to migrate en masse from China and that sooner or
later restrictions will be introduced by the Chinese authorities to make the life
of the emigrant unbearable-therefore the best alternative must be to join the
USSR and to be repatriated to the "Fatherland", However, th-s pro ands has not
been entirely successful and other measures have beco a nece ?sary?
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conflict involving; the U, 33R. local .:hite Itu. sians would be u;3cd by enemies of
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