IMPRESSIONS OF KALININGRAD NOV 1951/BORDER CONTROLS FOR LATVIAN FISHERMAN ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 162
• Publication Date: July 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. 'Knliniograd is the distribution centre for the German-built fishinglboatal
del4vered to the USER under the reparatic~e treaty. ,
In late autumn 1951
visired Kalini.ngred twice to, fetch trawlers assigned to the Bolshevik fie,,tig
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way atuLinR at --J ngXad Tlsaw many railway militiamen sr bout
My docufmnta were not checked ,
no other cantroi van rnmae.
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a e .r a had passed K18ipeda. Oar 11W first
journey >nY docinir_x;.te were c~tecked b;' MVD-me ; and railway militiame e
secoaid journey the inepecto
x-a were in civilian clothes
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Travel from Latvia through dthuania was entirely free, and the passenger m
documents a checkedal
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2. "tn odder t enter K&Llningrad and its oblarit an MYD eastr
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; - it. -CL atop, was unscathed. Very .Little
rehabil.vt-nT+?1CM work could b.i seen. In a few places soldiers were repDiriDg
blocks of houses, probably o provide lodgings for military personnel. T24=
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3? -Travell-Lug through the' Kfilittiugrad oblast?, it we
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largely depopulated. Very Yew people could be Qeen at the stations A= r Or
still it. ti1iE coo txyeide. Those "risible were mostly military men. CultiiF~t~ed
flelde +*re rather irifr?equent, Now and then. barracks and exercising' solld4. a
could; oG seen fzom the trait window. {
4. "The down o1 Kaiintngrad, was still -very seriously damaged. The 8ou h', rail ty
station where the t ~
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"The Schi.chnu shipyardsSeemed: quite dead. No work was going on anywhere.
the landing places therm were' only a Pew mine-sweepers. Many wrecks lie
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f3lastgbide the gtuays. IIere there cold and Faod pulp was being loaded II,
barges. At the railway car factory, probably the largest enterprise 'of they
tewn,about 50 new boxcars Jere standing on the rails. A few metal platf Isms
were also among them.
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SUBJECT Iu)rasaiont c, Ka-1-1-,4 ngr Nov 1951/Border Controls for
Latvian Fishermeta on Official Business
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dc~aate ttia' streets; civ111aao oars .a the -orltg.
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