COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500830117-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: November 17, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
,SUBJECT Communist Activities
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Underground statistics show that a-)proxiinately 550 thousand persons have been
killed in'YugoslaVin since the advert of the ".Communist paradise.r Among these
victims are 100 thousand from Belgrade, 58 thousand from Zagreb, 11 thousand
from Sarajevo, and 5 thousand from Ljubljana. .:Property of all victims was
confiscated by the Government. Very few of the persons killed unro collaborators;
most acre merely non-Communists.
25X1 &cmnent At least 500-550 thousand
persons have been a ed in Yugoslavia since the war, most of them in the early
days immediately follovti.ng liberation. The figures for killings in Belgrade and
Zagreb seem high, however. A more accurate esLlnate would be 15-20 thousand in
Belgrade and B-10 thousand in Zagreb. All property has been confiscated and
the Government does not intend to pay anything for nationalized property. Approx-
imately 30 thousand Germans are still in Yugoslav prison camps; another 70-80
thousand have vanished,;.7
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2. The Yugoslav Governments policy is "control through misery." The people are
being robbed and destroyed systematically in order that the Commntnist Party may
becdmlo stronger. The Party seems unaware or unconcerned that destruction of the
people will mean ultimate destruction of the Yugoslav nation.
S. Communist agents organize competitions to determine who can collect the. greatest
quantity of grain from the collective farms.. Contributions, though ostensibly
voluntary, are actually forced. Approximately 50 thousand Serbs have been im-
prisoned for refusing to surrender foodstuffs to "collectors." When unable to
hide their grain, Serbs dump it into the rivers rather than "help the Soviets
replenish their larder for the next warn
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from Serbian peasants has been go11 ~ The seizing of ing on since the end of the war. Peasantsdare
25X1 required to contribute a certain percentage of their production. A. campaign was
started recently to force surrender of entire crops. Communist "flying squad@"
competa to see who can get the most out of the farmers. Results of the competition
are published in the ne;;Epapers..
4.. Luring the recent harvest season, beaten and disfigured peasants were released
frons prison to serve as object lessons -to prospective "contributors."
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In Kovncico, for Example, tiro _'jeasnnts, "c.rtin Rolernc r:nci Jacob Czech,, were sent
home after their errs had been gouged out by Com^tiosar 7u.rko of the 'uncevo.(near
Bolgrade) secret police '(072TA). Rolerzc sand Czech rere"forced to bander in the
streets of I{ovacico, telling t'ieir neighbors thet t;iey tied received punishment
for nbtemptilag to hide grain from the Government. Czech,?.after refusing to. admit
the justice of his punishment, bad, his tongue cutoff by the secret police.
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Vojvodna is considered the brDr.Ldbaske of 7uropo... The peasants and settlers
are strongly.ngninst the regime. The Government is,recruiting peasants for*.::..
transfer to the fc,rmer German viliiges,,,7. ?
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the Tito-treasury has-eccumuleted the following revenue
Source of
Confiscated Industrial pro'perty
Ravi m terii js foiirtd in stores and warehouses
n Sale of UNNRA goods
Tax levies
Profits from conversion of occuar.tional.
currency
unbacked Julien March currency after an -agreement i%jth the Military Government,
and with the secret .approval of Minister of Finsnce 'Through strict
regul:,tion of exchange, the Government manages to seize considerable property.
There?is, hoxever, considerable hoarding of gold by individual citi2ens?j
occupational lira rare issued without backing. The Ljubljana Bank issued the
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