MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION (UTM) OF RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100240005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:~UBJEGT Membership in the Communist
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Rumania
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25X1 X l 4, Every institution, factory, or workshop has at least three active members of
the UTM, They organize the UTM in those places only when approved by the
Raionala (any area bounded by certain limits) of the UTM.
2. If someone wishes to become a member of the UTM he has to be a candidate for
three months. He attends meetings :crith other members, though he is not an
active member. Books and pamphlets are at his disposal. He is told to see
Soviet films,, to visit Soviet exhibitions, to study books, and above all to
acquire the knowledge of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. After three months a
plenary meeting is held where all members and candidates are present, The
candidate gives his complete autobiography, and is questioned by UTM members.
If after the question period the candidate fails to qualify as a member, he
remains a candidate for three more months.
3. Every member of the UT1: is liven a task by the Organizatorul De Grupa
(group organizer). A young person that is chosen as a leader of several
members of the UTM, and whose ideology is of a higher standing. is called
by the basic organization, organizer of a group, that is, he leads a group
of UTM members with a lower ideological status. Those with a lover ideological
status purportedly do not know the history of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union.
4. A UTM member or candidate must belong to the following social class; peasant,
working class, or in the extreme case, to the small bourgeois. Those that
belong to the latter category are children of professors, employees, doctors,
et cetera.
5,, A young person who wishes to become a UTM member must be introduced to the
basic organization by two active members of the UTra, or by a member of the
Communist Party.
6. Absenteeism from meetings is not tolerated because confidence in the member
is diminished, It may mean transfer or dismissal from the organization.
ore the collective interests.,
Personal interests must never come-U.
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