SITUATION REPORT ON THE RAIONS OF VARNIAI AND TELSIAI: PRICES, DEPORTATIONS, PARTISANS, MOBILIZATION, MANEUVERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012100280007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 23, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLCGENCE AGENCY
INF REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Lithuanian SSR)
SUBJECT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
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2'3 May 1952
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. Goods are very lentiful in the shops of Varniai (55-41iN, 22-22E) and Telsiai
(55-59N, 22-14E5, Lithuanian SSR. No food ration cards are necessary when
making purchases. Prices prevailing early in 1951 included the followings
Rye bread
(from a government sh
op)
1 kg
2.5
Rye bread
(on open market)
1 kg
5
Bacon
1 kg
35
Milk
1 liter
2
Chocolate
50 grams
9 - 18
Cocoa
1 kg
180
Beef
1 kg
15
Wheat flour
1 kg
12
Goose (on open market)
1
5o - 60
Working trousers
1 pr
100
Man's coat
1
300 - 800
Shoes
1 pr
150 - 1150
Boots
1 pr
700 - 800
Bicycle (cheapest constr
uction
) 1
750
2. A worker on a sovkhoz gets 20 to 30 rubles pay in cash weekly. A worker on a
kolkhoz does not get any cash; his pay is the 30 to 60 ares of land which he
is allowed to keep and for which he must pay about 80 rubles in taxes. In
addition, when the kolkhoznik has a cow or chicken, he must deliver milk and
eggs to the kolkhoz.
Situation Report on the Raions-
of Varniai and Telsiair Prices,Deportations,
Partisans, Mobilization, Maneuvers
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3. One church in Varniai has been closed, the priest banished, and the building
turned into a granary. The Protestant church in Telsiai is being used as a
flour store.
1. Men between the ages of 18 and !t5 have been mobilized. Some have been sent
to Kaliningrad; others have sent letters home indicating that they were enroute
to Korea.
5. Source estimates that 30 percent of all Lithuanians have been deported to
Siberia. The decrease in population is noticeable in the villages. People
deported from Varniai were taken to Telsiai where they often remained in sheds
for as long as three days without food while waiting for trains. Besides
farmers, families of men who have joined the partisans are deported.
6. Despite exterminations, there are still many partisans in the raions of Varniai
and Retavas. They live in bunkers in the forests and get their food from
farmers. Partisans caught by the Russians are deported to Siberia.
7. There are many MGB and militia men in Varniai, Telsiai, and Plunge and many
soldiers in Telsiai and Varniai. Ther' were army maneuvers around Telsiai in
1951 in which tank units and artillery took part. When the maneuvers were
finished, many of the soldiers left Telsiai in the direction of Tilsit.
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