INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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The Moscow Peace Partisans Congress and the Stalin Constitution Day are both
heavily publicized. Attention to ideological weaknesses in the Ukraine is revived
by the Central Co mittee of the Ukrainian Communist Party which assures the All-Union
Communist Party of greater vigilance in the future. The shortcomings attributed to
local Communist organizations cover the usual wide range of Party activities.
There is increasing reference to anti-religious propaganda. An ailing livestock
Industry as well as continued technical breakdowns in agriculture are implicitly
admitted in a spa-cial decision of the Ukrainian Communist Party. In industry,
much stress is laid on the sacrifice of quality in production to quantity.
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IDEOLOGICAL AFFAIRS
The Ukraine Lingering Bour Bois-Nationalist Sentiments: In a pungent 2500 word
editorial, RADYANSKA UKRAINA 7 December quotes the decision of the Ukrainian
Communist Party urging "a radical improvement in the leadership of all branches of
ideological work" These branches are specified as Ukrainian Soviet literature,
arts and science, the press, people"s education, propaganda, and mass political,
cultural and educational work. The recent plenary session of the Central Committee
of the Ukrainian Communist Party, the paper says, noted "all kinds of manifestations
of bourgeois ideology," particularly Ukrainian bourgeois nationalisms This, it says,
applies "especially to the intelligentsia." The depth of nationalist sentiments
among the Uaini.an intelligentsia is implicitly stressed in the Central Committee?s
reminder that "the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist State was established as an integral
and indivisible part of the great Soviet Union," and that was accomplished with the
"assistance" of the Great Russian people.
The ideological situation in the Republic is further aggravated by the "atmosphere
of nepotism and mutual praise" prevailing in a number of organizations where
criticism and self-criticism "are forgotten." It is in this atmosphere, says the
editorial,, that the cosmopolitan poet PexnromaiskyBs "The Dove" and "The Woman by the
Golden Gates" continue to bask in the wrong manner (nepravilne). Much of the blame,
according to the Central Committee, rests on the Committee for Arts and the Committee
for Cultural Educational Establishments. They lack of interest in the creative
efforts of the artists and theatrical workers who, as a result, have failed "to meet
the increased demands" of the people. Particularly weak in ideology are Kharkov,
Kiev, Lvov, Dniepropetrovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Kamenets-Podolsk, Zhitomir, Ternopol
and Drohobych .blasts. The ;ideological and political education of the theatrical
workers in these oblasts have been neglected. The same applies to the philharmonic
societies,: choir and musical collectives.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Cinematography "has not liquidated" its shortcomings as
evidenced by the film "Bolsha.ya Zhizn" (The Great Life). There is no indication
as to why this film is ""unworthy, H
Referring to the ' Ukrainian press and. its responsibility for the poor ideological
situation, BADYANSKA UKBAINA lists a number. of important newspapers and periodicals,
including itself, which "often publish weak and ideologically harmful works," and
seldom criticize literature and art. Named among the delinquent newspapers and
periodicals are,,,
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BILSHOVYK UKRATNY
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The Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party, continues the paper, has not
overlooked the "serious shortcomings" in the work of the Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences, particularly in the treatment of philosophy, Ukrainian history and
literature, folklore, ethnography and linguistics. These shortcomings are serious
enough to need attention "as soon as possible." Alluding to what might be con-
strued as pressure from above, the Central Committee decision concludes with the
following note.
The Ukrainian Communist Party-assured the Central Committee
of the A.11-Union Communist Party and especially Comrade Stalin
that the Ukrainian Bolsheviks will do everything possible toward
the elimination of the shortcomings.
A report from Viuaitsa (7 December) reveals that the oblast Party Committee urges
the"wising of the ideological level" in the work of the Society for the
Propagation of Political and Scientific Knowledge, the Oblast Cinema Administration,
the VINNITSKA. PR.AVDA editorial bureau, the Oblast Radio Information Committee
and a number of rayon Party committees. Complaints of shortcomings in various
aspects of ideological life are also heard from Proskurov, Zhitomir, Kirovograd
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and Alma Ata. RADYANSKE PODILYE (4 December), for example, says that the oblast Party
attitude toward ideological work is so superficial that in some city committees "the
same lecture (has been read) for three months now." This is typical. of Polonsky,
Shepetovsky, Izyaslavsky, Dunayevetsky and Kamenets-Podolsky rayons where all where
all ideological work "is being carried out unsystematically and without a reliable
plan." This low ideological level, concludes the editorial, has also led to the
discovery of "blunders and distortions" in the teaching of Ukrainian literature
and language in Mikhailovsky rayon.
A 'broadcast from Kiev (9 December) refers to the recent oblast Party session which
admitted that Kiev oblast is still ideologically weak despite the PRAVDA article of
2 July which "so justly exposed" that aspect of life in the Ukraine. What the
Communist Party organizations appear to neglect, according to the report, is the
most important element of their work- "Not enough attention has been paid to various
manifestations of Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism." The same refrain is taken up
again by RADYANSKA UKRAINA (1' December) in a warning against further ideological
aberations in the Republic, "above all against the expressions of Ukrainian
bourgeois nationalism." The Marxist-Leninist theory, according to the same editorial,
is still "un.satisfactorily propagated" among the unions of Soviet writers, composers,
artists and architects.
ZTYAZD.A. (1 December) looks into the arts and professions of the Belorussian SSR
anO declares that they are "lagging behind the times" (otstayut of zhizni). The
Belorussian playwrights are subject to particular censure for "failing to produce
a single play" about the everyday life of the Republic. Most of the editorial
barbs, however, are reserved for the men of letters who "failed to create a single
work.., on the selfless friendship between the Russian and Belorussian people..."
No shining example of creative ability has been produced by the Republic us composers,
the paper complains. There is not a single operatic work reflecting "the production
efforts" of the Belorussian people during the postwar Five-Year Plan. In addition
to the ideological weakness, the editorial concludes, artistic and literary standards
are. also still "very low."
PARTY ACTIVITIES
Most of the criticism of Party life is diffuse in character and is familiarly
directed against suppression of criticism, lax Communist supervision and insufficient
enthusiasm about Marxist-Leninist propaganda and studies. PRAVDA (2 December)
charges "deficiencies in the attitude'-'l to Marxist-Leninist theory on the part of
Ulyanovsk and Kostroma oblast Party organizations. These deficiencies, according
to the paper, are reflected in the "low ideological level" of the Communist propa-
ganda wor er?; . VEILI.KOLUKSKAYA PRAVDA (4 December) lists cases of open suppression
of criticism and brands it an "unparty attitude." When a worker of the
Velikoluksky-}troy Trust rose at a. meeting to c:r ~tici.ze certain shortcomings, says,
the editorial, he was cut short by the head of the trust with the remark "enough
blather, more work!" Criticism and self-criticism are often "of' a very low level,"
and. primary Party organizations "keep to a low political standard" and lose contact
with the problems of the day. The paper adds that "good bolsheviks,. openly expose
weaknesses and shortcomings, disclose culprits by nause and criticize without regard
to personality."
Lack of organization and control and formalism are still "much in evidence" in some
rayon and primary Party Committees, according to VELIKOLUKSKAYA PRAVDA of
8 December. Paper work and impassioned speeches appeax^ to be the chief pre-
occupation of the local Party officials while their real duties-checking the
implerrientation of Party decisions,-mare neglected. This, says the paper, is a
"shameful fact" and a "grave error on their part."
The. low standard of Party propaganda seminars is the object of a KRASNY SEVER
editorial discussion heard on 8 December from Volegda, Ivanovo oblast. Poor
lecturing and inefficient teaching, says the editorial "is the weakest spot" in the
training of propagandists. According to one student, quoted by the paper, the Party
seminars "reveal, absolutely nothing new" beyond textual quotations from the "Short
History of ? the Bolshevik Party" already known to all students This type of Party
education and propaganda is said to be continuing in Totemsky, Syamzhesky,
Babushkinssky, Sholsky and other rayons
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Abuses and nepotism in the selection and distribution of Communist cadres are discussed
in a STALINGRA.DSKAYA PRAVDA editorial of 12 December. The"vicious practice" of white-
washing shortcomings and errors is still in use in Zhdanovsky and Medveditsa rayons.
A number of unsuitable workers, instead of being dismissed, are shifted from one re-
sponsible,position to another. The evil consequences of this nepotism, according to
the editorial, are also carried to another extreme.- some honest workers are placed
in responsible jobs without proper guidance, and "their first error, which may be a
minor one, is immediately punished," Where cadres are not watched and properly in-
structed, the paper continues, "sudden surprising revelations" are often made. Such
was the case in Mikhailovka rayon, for example, where 40 people have been dismissed
from responsible positions in the past year-and-a-half simply because their qualifica-
tions had not been checked,
ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN
Proletarian Morality Versus Religion- Western church officials are frequent targets
of Soviet radio criticism but religion per se is almost never criticized, particularly
since the. reestablishment of the Orthodox Church in the USSR. What appears like a
sudden departure from this practice is seen in a long article by Kolonitsky (27 Novem-
ber), Comparing Communist or proletarian morality with religious morality, the author
asserts that Communist morality "is by its very nature international." Religion with
its mysticism and the "authority of a invented god," on the other hand, is something
without which "bourgeois morality cannot manage." Religion, he says, is designed to
"kill all will power" and independent activity in man and to make him submissive to
the powers that be. The reason for Kolonitsky?s sudden attack on religion may be in-
ferred from his references to the USSR where religious morality admittedly still has
to be fought, "..,in our country Communist morality has been squeezing out religious
morality and is still continuing to do so." The author?s concluding remark indicates
that free religion is not so compatible with Soviet conditions as might be thought:
Religious morality continues to play a reactionary part under our social-
ist conditions. ...Being a most viable conservative ideology, it impedes
the overcoming of all other remnants of the past. Communist education...
is therefore Indissolubly connected with unmasking and overcoming religious
morality.
A report from Uralsk (1 December) rebukes the local officials for the ""badly conducted"
anti-religious campaign in Chapayevsky rayon where "survivals of the past" are said to
be "still manifesting themselves." There is no elaboration. A dispatch from Riga
(in Latvian, 7 December) speaks of the teachers of Kuldiga rayon who ""are not
extending anti-religious propaganda work in schools and among the population,"
AGRICULTURE
Appeals to eliminate the two admitted weak spots in agriculture--lack of,winter
premises for the livestock and tractor deficiencies---are aired on most of the
regional transmitters, The near failure of the three-year agricultural study courses
is deplored by PRAVDA and other sources, and is held responsible for much of the
collective farm mismanagement,
RABOTCEIY PUT (4 December) bemoans the lack of well-equipped cattle premises at the
stockbreeding farms despite the great supplies of timber and other building materials
at their disposal. Can there be any talk about erecting winter barns, the editorial
complains, when in some of the rayons as in Kasplyansky and.Baturinsky, for example,
they have not even bothered to organize permanent building brigades. In other
rayons, where such brigades are on hand the available resources are said to be
inadequately utilized (ne ispolzuyutsia polnostyu). Among them are Novoduginsky,
Krasnininsky, Znamenskiy, Dorogobuzhskiy, and Kholm-Zhirkovsky rayons.
KIROVOGRADSKA PRAVDA (in Ukrainian, 4 December) reminds Its readers that among the
assurances recently given the All-Union Communist Party by the Central Committee
of the Ukrainian Party is one about the preparation of adequate winter shelters for
the livestock. This, the editorial remarks, should be pushed faster than is the
case at present, and all that is needed to accomplish the task is self-denying
labor (samootverzhenny trud).
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 The )-year stockbreeding plan has not been fulfilled by "many" collective farms of
Poltava oblast, according to ZARYA POLTAVSHCHINY (7 December). The squandering of
stock and insufficient fodder supplies are cited as the chief reasons. No details are
offered as to the particular areas affected or the nature of stock squandering. The
paper merely urges "every effort" to remedy the situation as soon as possible. The
failure to increase the communal livestock according to plan also provides the
substance for a PSKOVSKA.YA PRAVDA editorial on 7 December. The editorial admits
that the 3-Year stockbreeding plan for the oblast as a whole is short of the
target and that this "alarming situation" (trevozhnoye so toyariie) is not even being
investigated by the appropriate agricultural officials. Inadequate cattle- premises,
faulty distribution of winter fodder and, above all else, unqualified stockbreeders
(nekva.lifitsir':ovannie zhivotnovody) are said to account for the situation. Stock-
breeders' education is also the subject of a SOVETSKAYA SIBIR report from Novosibirsk
(8 December). This lack of trained personnel, the report says, has brought about a
situation that demands immediate action: "Serious shortcomings in the work are
revealed. The fodder supplies at the farms are low and the condition of the stock
is poor. Care of Mock is badly organized."
The mistakes of last year when tractors often left for the fields in "dilapidated
conditions" are being repeated this year, according to CHERVONY ZAPORIZHYE (1 December).
The oblast tractor-repair plan is "still far from satisfactory," schedules are not
followed and "no measures are being taken" to speed up the repair work. The head of
the Oblast Agricultural Administration, Bondarenko, is blamed for the carelessness
(bezzhurnyst; in management which brought about an "extremely unsa..tisfactory"
situation in a number of machine-tractor stations. Particularly affected are the
Belozerska., Chapanevska, Kbiortytska., and Haychyneka stations, as well as those in
Veliko-ToKmakski.y rayon.
"Extremely unsatisfactory" is also the verdict in the case of many of the Kirovograd
oblast machine tractor stations,; according to KIROVOORADSKA PRAVDA of 11 December.
These stations are reported to-have fallen 'so far behind in their repair work so as
to jeopardize the successful outcome of the agricultural plan. The Nlalo-Konyshnyansky,
Tishkovsky, Nov - tarodubsi y, K.hmelevsky, Shestokulsky and Komintern stations are
named as the worst of the lot,,
Among the other sourcen reporting slow tractor repairs and other technical difficulties
SOVETSKAYA SIBIR. 4 December: The level of work at many machine-tractor stations
does not yet fully answer the increased demands.
The excellent equipment is not used satisfactorily
ORLOVSKAYA PP,AVDA, 7 December: The directing authorities did not organize such
important measures as...the development of
technology in the repair of tractors and combines
and many other problems.
KURSKAYA. PRAVDA., ;12 December : A number of machine-tractor stations still have not
completed a fifth of the planned tractor repairs
for the fourth quarter.
The agricultural study courses designed to improve the training of collective farm
management and labor again claim the attention of PRAVDA and a few regional sources.
Lectures by agricultural experts to farmers are few and far between, says PRAVDA
(3 December), and the 3-year courses have not been properly organized in some areas.
Chernigov oblast is-cited as an example of how not to do it. The local Party
organizations are said to be taking no interest in promoting the studies, leaving
the schools to their own fate. ORLOVSKAYA PRAVDA (9 December) complains of
constantly falling attendance in the agricultural school network, and warns against
a repetition of the previous academic year when only 9,500 out of the planned
30,000 managed to stick it out to the end. "Similar shortcomings exist this year as
well." Irregular classes and the "low level" of instruction explain the unwilling-
ness of the students to attend, according to the paper. The training situation in
Uritsky, Shablykin.sky, Sudbishchensky, Stanovlyanskiy, Zalegoshchenskiy, Korsakovskiy,
Russko-Brodskiy and Glazunovsky rayons is said to be "causing much concern." Low
attendance and too few schools also provide the subject for editorial discussion by
VELIKOLUKtKAYA PRAVDA (13 December). In Zharovskiy rayon alone, for example, only
five schools are functioning out of the ten specified in the plan. In Kuyinsky
rayon, the agricultural schools are attended by 142 collective farmers instead of the
required 340, and in Krasnogorodsky rayon the total attendance is less than 50 per-
cent. School progress is "not much better" in Penovsky and other rayons.
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Information on income distribution in the collective farms is fragmentary.
(2 December) declares that such distribution resu he succe PlK(~VSI~AYA
completion of all. agricultural operations. Many collectives,ethe paperesays fare
"hiding behind the average figures" of the oblast but are actually far behind in
their worke Income distribution may be adversely affected in such rayons as
Gdovsky, Karamyshevsky, Novorzhevsky and Pskov where "not one fifth of the grain
destined for sowing" has been sorted. Referring to the same topic in a different
context, 2ARYA VOSTOKA (S December) calls upon the collective farm bookkeepers who
'wenjoy wide powers under regulations approved by the USSR Government" to help keep
the kolkhoz accounts straight and to insure "'vigilant protection against the enemies
of public property
Indivisible funds (nedelimie fondy), as mentioned in a previous CPW report, are also
in a sense untouchable funds. They may be increased at any time but never reduced
without a special Party decision at a certain time of the year. Such decisions are
usually taken upon the recommendation of a general meeting (obshcheye sobranie)
of the collective farmers involved. These "financial rules" are not strictly
observed by many collective farms of Novosibirsk obla.st according to
SIBIR (12 December) In the Stalin kolkhoz (Barabinak rayon), "clectiveRfarm funds
are being squandered." Far from paying on its capital deposit debt (zadolzhennost
po kapital,nomu vlozheniu), the kolkhoz is going deeper into debt. Its September debt
of 18,700 rubles is now said to have risen to "nearly" 40,000. Another collective
farm, in the Chistoozerniy rayon, simply "took about 20,000 rubles" from the
indivisible fund this year,
A broadcast BOLSV? editorial (9 December) emphasizes the "paramount importance"
of :indivisible funds and their proper utilization (pravilnoye izpolzovanie). This,
says, the editorial.,, is particularly true in view of the recent enlargement of small
collective farms. The indivisible funds of the enlarged farms (ukrupnerm.ie kolkhozy)
are greater and therefore require stricter control. The chief editorial emphasis,
however, is on the familiar advantages of large farming units which in the i-r?aine
alone are said to have contributed to an increase of "almost 57 million" puds of grain
over 1950.
INDUSTRY
Better Production ualit Needed, Industrial shortcomings are aired by PRAVDA and
IZVESTIA and repeated on some regional transmitters. The drive for better pro-
duction quality and lower costs, begun some time ago, appears to have been renewed
with increased vigor. Only a few plants are singled out for official stxietures as
examples of substandard production and inordinate waste of raw materials, but the
tenor of the official criticism suggests 'widespread inefficiency. The race for
high quantitative production indices ia to be slowed. down., and quality is to be
stressed instead, "What the State needs, says PRAVDA (1 December), is not just any
fulfillment and overfulfillment of the Plan but only the kind of fulfillment that
would insure the needed production for the national economy.'" (dlya gosudarstva,
nuzhno ne ` ?pyakoye vypolnenie perevypolnen:ie pla.na, a tolko takoye, kotoroye
obespechivayet narodnoye khozaistvo nuzhnoi emu produktsiey). Our present efforts,
the paper continues, should be directed toward greater economy and less waste:
"economize raw materials, save every nail?""(syryo ekonomit, kazhdiy gvozd berech!)
IZSTIA (12 December) discusses the same theme and reiterates verbatim PRAVDA's
injunction quoted in ,Russian above. A number of plants, the paper claims, while
producing high quantitative indices are "systematically failing" to show any
improvement In their production quality. Substandard production with its resultant
losses and. waste is tolerated on a large scale. The "Irbt" Motorcycle Works of
Sverdlovsk oblast, for example, has exceeded its cost-reduction plan by 1.9% but
its losses through rejects (beak) and substandard production amounted to two
million :rubles, Several million rubles? worth of goods were rejected (zabrakovany)
in the past ten months at the. .. Denpropetr?ovsk Metallurgical Works, The situation
is said to be particularly bad in Lithuania where the production of the "prescribed
range of goods," (assort?iment) is apparently not taken seriously while consumers;"
goods are often neglected. In the Kaunas stocking factory, for example, a number
consumer items "were not produced at all" last October. Similar delinquencies are
attributed to other industrial plants whose managers ".blatantly violate State
discipline." This, the paper intimates, is due to lack of prodding from above:
"It is curious why the Ministry of Light Industry of the Lithuanian SSR is so
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Among the other major industrial evils requiring immediate attention, according to
PRAVDA (11 December), are overstaffing of administrative organs, swollen payrolls,
excessive reserves of raw materials in the warehouses and the inevitable rejects.
The production problem, the paper argues, should be tackled simultaneously from both
ends- reduction of costs on the one hand and fewer rejects on the other.
Overstaffing of administrative organs, payroll over-expenditures,
excessive accumulation of raw materials in the warehouses and
losses through rejects cannot be tolerated.
Russian vereion<
Ntelzy.>a terpet izlishestv v shtatakh upravlencheskogo apparata,
dopuska.t kakikh?libo pereraskhodov fondov zarabotnoi platy,
nakoplenia na skiadakh chrezmernykh zapasov syrya I materialov,
poter of braka.
Economy and saving, PRAVDA continues, are an integral feature of socialist production
(neot ?emlimaya ch.arta sotsialistiche:-kogo proizvodstva). and must be enforced everywhere
without exception. The Importance of this drive is again underlined in the paper's
reminder to all Party organizations of their new duties to channel the national
effort toward higher quality and lower costs of production.
The trade unions and their part in the campaign for better production are discussed
in PRAVDA. of 12 December. Theoretically responsible for the success of socialist
competitian and greater production, the trade unions are rebuked for having fallen
down on the job. It is known, the editorial claims, that until quite recently the
trade unions, just like the Party and Soviet organizations, bothered very little
about the quality of production, directing all their efforts toward quantity. The
fourth 'plenum of the Central Council of Trade Unions has recently adopted a number
of decision: to improve socialist competition for quality in industry, but some of
the trade unions have still nom )adapted themselves to the new situation" (vsyo
eshche ne pexestroilis) and continue to maintain a State-bureaucratic attitude.
(prodolzbayut pokazennomu otnositsya) In the Makeyevka, Metal Works, to cite but pne
example, the trade union shop committee did not even bother to tell the workers
about the new decisions of the Central Trade Union Council.
The quality-quantity topic is again. discussed. on 14 December, this time from a
technological point of view. Without the introduction of advanced technology
(peredovaya te`thnika), says PRAVDA, there can be no production quality at all, only
rejects. There are still many plants where the production of the latest machinery
is somehow "adapted to a law level of technology (uzhivayetsia. s nizkim urovnem
tekhnologii) In some plants, like the Kalinin Railway Coach Works, outdated pro-
duction methods are still employed, while in others, where new technological
methods have allegedly been introduced, the old system is continued and the new,
iIs left intact An the textbooks.
Slow preparations for winter production and unwarranted delays in the oblast
industrial progress are noted by STALINGRADS'AAYA PRAVDA (2 December). Lack of
mechanization of labor-consuming work in the lumber industry is blamed for its poor
performance by VELLKOLUK.SKAYA PRAVDA of #3 December.
Some managers and directors of forestry collectives.,..fail to make
full use of all the available machinery...?As, a result, in the two
months of the present season the (Velikolukaky-Les) timber trust
failed to cozmplete" even 25% of its quarterly target..' a
Both individual wo maker. s and entire enterprises of the lumber industry are lagging
behind their assigned targets, the editorial concludes.
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PSKOVSKAYA PRAVDA (13 December) angrily denounces broken pledges on the part of
industrial management which, the editorial iznplies,has almost become standard pro-
cedure- "Every month the lagging enterprises pledge themselves to improve matters
but this resolve remains on paper." These matters refer to qualitative production
indices, but "many" of those enterprises are said to be lagging in their quantity
production as well, in the "hope that their deficiencies will be made good by the
leading enterprises." Among them are the Gdovsky Timber Works, (Zavod)-Kirpich
and many others.
MISCELLANEOUS
Indications of continued southward migration also mentioned in the CPW report of last
April are seen in a few short items broadcast from the Ukraine in the past two weeks.
These reports are given in the form of letters from the new settlers to their
friends and relatives describing their new prosperity and inducing them to follow
their example o Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolayev oblasts and the Kakhovka construction
site are mentioned among the settlement areas. The exodus of farmers has apparently
been taking place from Lutsk oblasts One of the new settlers writes home that for
her 360 work days she received 690 kilograms of wheat and rye, 130 kilograms of sun-
flower, watermelons, apples and 718 rubles "on top of that." A report on 7 December
says that "many collective farmers from Lukovsky rayon moved last year and this
spring to the southern oblasts of the Ukraine." Others a?e being asked by the new
settlers to join them and many are willing to follow: "Every day applications are
being received from peasants who want to move to the southern oblasts." Another
letter from a southern settler says that the farmers in the Kakhovka locality are
receiving, among other things, 2 kilograms of wheat and seven and a half rubles per
labor day."
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