STAFF NOTES: SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400090013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 12, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOVIET UNION ? EASTERN EUROPE
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CONTENTS
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East German Leaders Monitor
Economic Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Romania's Hungarian Minority 3
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CEMA Price Negotiations for 1975
Still Under Way 6
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East German Leaders' Mori t:o'r 'Fc'o'nom'i'o l?roblems
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East Germany's foroiV'a trade problems are com-
manding increasing attent4,>n in the party's top
councils as the regime be;,j,ins preparations for the
party congress scheduled 'c or next May.
There have been sevi-rat indications that the
party leadership is dicp.'Leased with the performance
of the "export offensive" to the non-communist
world that was launched last year to help offset
rising hard-currency imports .
The party is apparently placing the blame t-.lr
the shortcomings squarely on the shoulders of the
foreign trade enterprises, ignoring the question
of acceptability of East German goods in the West
and general decline in Western demand.
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regime.
Focusing the ;,-;Lame on the foreign trade enter-
prises places Fore:~.gn Trade Minister Soelle and
Werner Jarowinsky, party secretary for trade and
supply, under the gun. The latter is one of the
few remaining "bright young men" of the Ulbricht
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Romania 's Hungarian Minority
The nearly two million ethnic Hungarians living
in Romania constitute the largest minority group
in any East European country. There is a legacy of
animosity between Hungarians and Romanians, but the
US embassy in Bucharest believes that Ceausescu's
stringent domestic policies have not been carried
out at the expense of the Hungarian minority.
The embassy points out that:
--Regime policies such as the ban on lodging
tourists in private dwellings applies to
all citizens, not just Hungarians.
--The 1974 newsprint and publishing cutbacks
were evenly applied to Magyar and non-
Magyar publications.
--The trial of Magyar writer Zoltan Kallos
was not a case of cultural oppression,
but of punishment for homosexuality.
The embassy also reports that some ethnic Hun-
garian intellectuals "appreciate the political am-
biguities" in which they 'operate. While eager for
greater cultural latitude, they are reportedly
equally cool to Hungary's pro-Soviet posture and
the prospect of more Soviet influence in Transyl-
vania.
Some Hungarians in and outside Romania take
a different view of the situation. Budapest has
nee*ei. theless been under pressure from nationalists
at home to