COMMUNITY OF MOKRIEVO, STRUMICA, MACEDONIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700110002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Cld??"~ I~LI~GEN~1~IIENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
DATE DISTR. 25 February 1952
SUBJECT Community of Mokrievo,o 5trutmicaa? Macedonia NO. OF PAGES 2
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CLASSIFICATION
1. The community of Mokrievo (sic), which is located in the Strumica district of
Macedonia, comprises the villages of Mokrievo, Mokrino and Borisovao. Eventually,
in accordance with the terms of a Government decree enacted during August 1951,
these villages in the present community of Mokrievo will be incorporated into
the community of Novo Solo. The fol1loriing individuals have been identified as
officials of the community of Mokrievo z
a, Chairman of the community of Moictievot a certain Vandhel from Mokrino, who
is also the delegate from the community of Nokri evo to the Novo Selo Community
Council;
b. Secretary of the community of V1oIcrievo: Jovan Lazarov;
c, Administrative employee: Pande Todorov; and
d. Political Secretary of the 12-member Cwwanist Party cell in Mokrievo,
Iufti Dautov, who also teaches, the Moslems children in the commauti.ty.
2. There are approximately 80 Moslem families in the village of Mokrievo, 30
Moslem families in the village of Nokrlno and an unspecified nwiber of Moslem
families in the village of Borisovo.
3. collective was established in the cc ty of fokrievo during May 1950, and
all of the peasants were forced to Join it. At the time informants fled Yugoslavia,
the. collective had 14 work brigades, 300 sheep and 240 head of cattle,, and one
40,000mdinar threshing machine with a capacity of 250 Idlograms per hour. This
was the only agricultural machine owned by the collective. In 1950 a small
electrical power plant, -which had at its disposal one outmoded Wolf steam
engine., was constructed. This plant supplied electricity to the village of
Nokri evo, as well as to the stmall sawmill and carpentry shop. Pants Petrov
Vasiliev was the manager of the power plant, the carpentry shop and the
sasmmi.ll.
4.
Working members of the collective were allotted 12 to 20 kilograms of wheat
per month,, while children and aged persons were allotted 12 kilograms of wheat
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per month. Informants stated that in 19509 they and other collective members
received 22,000 diners in cash and 49000 dinars worth of coupons for 174
smoking days.
5, During 19508 the collective members were ordered to surrender to the Govern-
ment, I ogma of woo 8 2,000 kilograms of etdeats 180,,000 kilograms of
rice and 11,000 k lograms of cotton. The following table shown the prices
paid by the Goverment for products swrendered by the collective during
1950 and 1951:
Product
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kfl?,,~
Price 2 ear
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Rine
7 dinar.
16 dinars in cash and,
21 dinars in coupons
Cotton
20 dinars
Tobacco
50 - 150 dim,,,,
100 - 300 dinars
6. The harvest of rice in 1951 was goof and the collective had a supply of 300,000
kilograms of rice, the harvest per acre baling 150 to 200 kilograms. At the
time informants fled Yugoslavia, the cotton harvest had not yet been ccnpleted;
however, they calculated that it wos ,,mount to ea?ie 158000 kilograms. The
collective members did not recEtive m W of the rice or cotton produced on the
collective land.
7 There was a considerable shortage W7 food in the area of Mo) rievo and, peasants
were often forced to steal food /roes the fields in order to eft. As a
consequencef, during the harvest sseaaon members of the militia and awed
collective members were stationed In the collective fields at night,, t'urinng
the fall of 1951;? 12 plants were r.;au stealing grain and cotton, These
individuals ware tried by the coamunity covxcil and penalties ,,sere im red.
on the majority of tin in U.is form of loss of pay for working d& . i t .:~:I
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