REPORTED NEW EFFORTS TO RESETTLE CARPATHO-UKRANIANS VOLUNTARILY IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000500640001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Country: USSR
Subject: Reported New Efforts to resettle Carpatho-Ukrainians 'Voluntarily' in the
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Place Acquired:
Date Acquired:
Date of Info: Late March - early April 53
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1. "The authorities in the Zakarpatskaya Oblast (the former Carpatho-Ukraine) have re-
sorted to new methods to induce the local people to resettle voluntarily in the
USSR. Previous deportations have been compulsory. This information is dated late
April 1953.
2. "During late March and early April 1953 the MVD authorities started to spread
through their agents various rumors based on the amnesty announced by the Supreme
Soviet. According to these rumors, which have become particularly strong in the
hukachevo (formerly hunkacs) district, the Soviet authorities have agreed to a
voluntary-resettlement of those persons in the Zakarpatskaya Oblast who would be
willing to join their families who were 'resettled' (i.e. 'deported') to Russia
proper after World War II.
3. "Many people believed the rumors. They called at CP and administrative offices,
asking to be resettled in Russia so that they could join their families. All such
people were entered on lists of 'voluntary resettlersl. Soon they began to re-
ceive free railway tickets to their places of destination and special ration cards
for their journey. In the hukachevo district alone over 160 families or single
persons volunteered for such a transfer. Suddenly, people discovered that the
whole action was a well prepared trick. The volunteers for resettlement were not
to be sent to the places where their deported families are living but to entirely
different regions.
4. "One (fnu) Bazyluk, a former railway employee had heard through clandestine channels
from his son who had been deported in 1949 to the Komi-Permayak National District.
Hoping to join his son, he entered his name on the list of 'volunteers' on 30
March. On 4 April he received to his great astonishment from the Maispolkoral in
hukachevo a railway ticket and a ration card entitling him to a free journey to
the railway station of Loukhi in the Kareio-Finnish SSR. He went to the 1Raispolkoml
office and asked for an explanation, contending that his son was living in the
Komi-Permyak Nat. District. He begged to be sent there. The political official
of the office, (fnu) Gavrilenko, rejected his request on the ground that he should
not have received the news about his
petitioner with immediate arrest."
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