BULGARIAN FARMERS REBEL AGAINST COLLECTIVIZATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 552
• Publication Date: June 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
CLASSIFICATION cONFIDENrIAL . CON~fD~DTIA
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Political} Economic - Collectivization
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PUBLI~NED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Zurich
DATE 4 Apr 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
BuiAGARIAN FARNIER3 REBEL AGAINST GOT?T.rLf!TTVTZATION
According to a report Yrom Yugoslavia, the Commmunist Party organizations
in Kula District to Northwest Bulgaria and the party organization in Yablan-
itsa have been dissolved because they.?deviated'from the party link. Both
organizations allegedly `sere deactivated by Vulko Chervenkov in an effort to
pacify the farmers, who are incensed at the rigorous collectivization measures
which are being lmplemented.
Rabotnicheeko Delo, the party newspaper, published an article annovncin~
a moderation oY the collectivization program. Thereupon, a large number or ,
farmers in Kula Okoliya deserted from the kolkhozea. According to Bulgarian
refugees in Yugoslavia, the deserters were caught and arrested. Since the
Kula prison holds only 70 persons, the elementary-school building bad to be
~$ed as an emergency prison.
Ivan Karaivanov, a leading Bulgarian Communist who has lived in Yugo-
slavia for several years, accuses Chervenkov of copying the collectivization
methods used by the Soviets in the 193os. He claims that beatings, physical
torture, incarceration, and shooting are reaopted to, to force the farlBee!'/
into the kolkhozes.
Karaivanov also reports that numerous farmers Yrom the area adjoining
the Yugoslav frontier have been deported to the Deli Orma sector. This re-
gion consists of sparsely settled, hilly cattle country, situated between
Ruschuk and Varna, in Northeast Bulgaria, from which the local TurkiE"b i:n-
habitants have been expelled. According to IClraiyaaov, deportations to the
USSR, via Rumania, have also taken place. It bas'not bsen established, how-
ever, whether these deportations took place as s result of collectivization,.
or whether they represent security measures, such as?have been carried out in
Rumania and Hungary.
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