DATA ON BELOGRADCHIK OKOLIYA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500590041-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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1. The Belcgradohik CBcoliya administration is located in the center of the
town, at the lower side of the square in a new building built during 1943.
The State Security in also located there.
The chairman of the Bel adohik akoliva Peoplea Soviet is
1 The chief of the State Security
in kJal= from Clreshtete in Bel adohik Ckoliva.1 Yvan Pa-2
10 ZM dQgaut Or the State Security in Belogrudchiki
" Lozan" tiiie is his ni jo%ame)
is an agent the ate Security and lives in Bel adchik but his town
of origin is not known. Aleksandur
is the chairman of the Be ogre chile urban Peoples Soviet. Ivan Wmay Ab%Ua
is
a secretary of the Ccoliya Ccam.ittee ci the Communist Party.
The chairman of the village of Rabisha Rural Peoples Soviet In Bel aaohik
Ckoliya is Oeorgi Todctrov
tasks that are given to him such as having arms stored in his house. These
arms include pistols, carbines, submaohine guns, and one light or heavy
machir..e gun, an well as hand grenades. Pevetko Ivannv ie a former
member of the Bulgarian National Agrarian ibiicn. The
authorities wish to discharge him bt:i cannot find a substitute. One
cannot count on him to fight agsinat the Communists. However, he does not
treat the peasants badly. He comes from Rabisha, Belogradehik Qkoliya.
Stamen Petrov is a secretary and collector in the rural Peoples Soviet.
He was a collector before 1944 and is about 47 years old. He wished to
J?1+~ he caa+ ~y uut was not aceep o-d, ti'Ca a- the puasante wail anti is a
good persona. Yordan Iliev is an official in the community,
works for the Rural Peopi.s Soviet, is friendly with the
emmun. eta but himself is n C haves very well.
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3. Before 194.4 the Communist Party in Rabiaha had only fow- members, but these
are no longer members. After l94? 150 members were re;,risLered, but this
number has now been lowered to 46 members. The reason for the decrease in
membership is that some have left the Party, while others have been excluded.
Dimitur ygy is the secretary of the Party organization
He has a third grade education and is a farmer. Weapons are
stored In his house. He hands them to Boyni Grupi (Combat Groups), to
Party members, and to DOSO members when these go into ambush near the border.
He leaves an impression with the peasants of being a ,,ood man, but he is
an informer and tells everything to the Chief of the Frontier Guard in the
neighboring village. RnyAn'r.rtai also in Bel eadchi.L C:,,,,. The
following are armed ~Canmunists and members of the Boyne Grupa~(combat group):
Petur Tit3mtkov, Dimitu: Stovanov, Stefan S ovanov, Stefa.-i U Tril=a ,
Mayden N Mishkov, Stoyan Yankov, Ivan Yankov, Dimitur Petkov, Fbtur Mitjcgy,
Kosta Petrov, Dimitur Markov, Stoyan Todcrav, and Stancho onnv. This group
of Communists participates actively in collecting the grain delivery quotas
from the peasants, participates in arrests in the village, participates in
secret night observations and defense of important military places, as well
as in the persecuting of opposition members. Such groups are attached to
all Party crganizacions in frontier places, they have their technical
instructor, but are under the Party Secretary. The Party has meetings at
least =as a week, but these meetings are not attended even by the Communists.
Much propaganda is made about the Suviet Union and the Red Army in frontier
villages. All peasants up to 45 years of age are required to study Russian.
Courses are given by the Bulgarian S o.'iet Friendship Society or by the Father-
land Front Committee and by the Party.
4. The cooperative labor farm in the village was formed by force during 1948.
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rst the Party obligated persons to join the cooperative labor farm,
but later the private farmers or kulaks were deprived of their land. Of 400
farms, only 280 became members of the cooperative labor farms while the
rest are still struggling against them. These private farmers who are
struggling against the labor farm system are helped by members of the
cooperative labor farm theaselves, who are dissatisfied. The cooperative
labor farm has very good land, but the production of crops is unsatisfactory.
The equil..nent of the cooperative labor farm is gathered by or from the
oooperativ! members themsel-vda. In case of great need, agricultural machines
are borrowed from the Machine Tractor Station in Alekeandr ovo in Belogradohik
Ckoliya. Thin Machine Tractor Station has the following tractors: Stalinets,
the British Fords=, the Swedish Muntel, and the US Deecring. This Machine
Tractor Station also furnishes thrashers.
Naydon N ish ov was tho chairman of the cooperative labor farm, is a member
of the Communist Party, but is c.gainat the rough methods of the Part ~} As
a result he was' removed from the TKZS - the labor cooperative farm. I~
farm. He wag designated to this poet in 1951. At the time that he was
made chairman almost all pov.aants who were cooperative members wished to
resign. As a result of this Najden Mishkov was discharged from the
e cooperative labor farm.
of the Machine Tractor Station in Aleksandrovo, Bologradchik Okoliya. This
Machine Tractor Station was formed in 1947 and equipment of the v rious
peasants was put into it. Later on tractors and other agricultural machines
were received from the USSR and Czechoslovakia. The Machine Tractor
Station has thrashers of which 116 were tAken away from private farmers.
It has tractors, combines, and disc grain drills. There are insufficient
machines in this area as the result. nt' which the olsns are not fulfilled.
The resistance of workers and cooperative members Is great because they
know they are working for the "OUR and their Bulgarian agents. The Credit
Cooperative in Rabiaha carries out bank operations, gives credits to the
cooperative labm,farms, and in rare cases to private farmers who are not
members of the labor farm6. The Cooperative fuss two consumer stores and
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Includes a dairy which receives all the milk from the cooperative labor
fa^mo and from private farmers, as well as from shepherds in the locale.
The Cooperative also includes a lime section for the preparation of lime
for the oonstruotion of various frontier projects, as well as for
building houses 'to. The Cooperative also has a fishing section. Dimitur
Georgi Ivanov ~Ly
6. During 1950 the f ollovino peasants who were against the labor Qormerative
farm were imprisoned and are still jailed: Vuloho Sto_ nov,
Omomber of the Bulgarian National Agrarian Union, intern somewhere
now Srednororieto (Sredna Gore Mountains); hosts. Zuiohev Stoves (the
son of Vuloho Stoyanov) and a member of the Zveno group, put
into the Kutaiyan camp at the same time hie father was imprisoned, but
changed after one year and now his whereabouts are unknown; Todor
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n teacher, imprisoned somewhere in the Sredna Gore. Mountains;
encho joay, imprisoned during 1951 and later biis entire family wan
imprisoned in the vilLge of Glozhevo, Kubrac L,pia7 Okoliya; Georgi a'-:
imprisoned with his family during 1951 in the same village L vloatlevo
Kcsta jay and his family were imprisoned in the same village.
7. I ing 1952 and 1953 six other families were imprisoned because they had
relatives who fled abroad. Those families are in prison somewhere in the
Ldogorio area of Dobruja. .
S. The frontier is defended by the Frontier Guard, which is under the
Ministry of interior. The frcntisr ?s especially well defended in those
areas where it is )mown that divereionarios pass or where underground and
illegal persons are hiding. The frant