LIVING CONDITIONS IN FORCED LABOR CAMPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004401040005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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s ted by the MVD.
2. From October 1 to September 1951 the life led byl
25X1 Germans who had come from Buchenwal , Sac a usen, and
Bautzen in the Soviet Zone of Germany was fairly good: food, clothing, and
housing were adequate. Inmates of the camp were paid about 150 rubles
a month and allowed to make small purchases. They were not permitted to
have any connections with their homes.
were me a rood was very Inferior, the temperature 40-60 25X1
degrees Fahrenheit below zero 40- 0 Grad Kaelte), and the daily work lasted
up to 10 hours. Most of the(40-50
orced laborers in this camp were common
criminals; very few had been condemned for political crimes. The worst
among the Soviet criminals were the "Bladnoys"2, among whom there were men who
had been condemned several times for murder. They stole whatever they could
lay their bands on. The "Sukis"2 were a somewhat better edition of the
"Bladnoys". They came fromthe same social milieu as the "Bladnoys" but had
made a promise to reform.
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to or receipt by an unauthatlssd p.t.on Is ptohlhttsd
by tsw. The nDrodueum at this farm is pnhthtted.
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 4. The arbitrary concept of justice
camp Kuchni here was In
e deserter who was classified as a
criminal. her hand, in Vorkuta there was a man, convicted 18
times for murder, who was classified as a political criminal.
5. the following Hamp irnates could be
considered as missi
ng persons:
Riewe, Dr. (fnu), of whom it was knownthat he was arrested.
Mueller, Dipl. Ing. Karl, who formerly worked for Zeiss, in Jena. He was condemned to hard labor for life. 25X1
Comment: Probably a confusion with Inza (N 52-19, E 42-30),
some 50 miles southwest of Ulyanov. laze is southeast of Moscow, and
a center for the lumber industry of that region. Inta is some 80 miles
south of Vorkuta.
2 O Comment: These are slang terms. The first "Bladno ",
should be Blatnoy", derived from "blat", a fixer or "spiv". "Sukis",
a germanized plural of "sake", bitch, is probably an underworld reference
to the fact that these people "betrayed" their profession when they made
a promise to reform.