USE OF FORCED LABOR BY SOVIET INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200320018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2013
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SU67ECT Use off' Forced-Labor by Soviet Industry
PLACE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATIC.~N
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1. Ver many industrial enterprises in the .q~eorgian SSR,have use co re -
3ve a ~or camp inmates as workers pimpl 1?eeau,se this labor was mu~h5ox1
~beaper than that of free wor}~ers. '~~n4w thatthroe h the. ost
World War II yeax~a~ the Tkvarcheli Coal Mines Trust used labor
from the corrective. labor eam~.min.Kvezani, mainly on construction of
rmads .cot7nectit~g ~.:ndiv;t.dual~mine~, ~ The Kvezani Camp had as many as
,1.,000 convicts o~ ~u~St as all c?xtvicts in corrective labor campy -ita~
"tie Cecrrgiata SSR, were either, criminal offenders or political priaon:ers
with short term sentences. Political prisoners with long term-sentences
as -far. as I know, were never sent to stay caatps located in the tarri-.
gory of the O~orgiar~ SSR., A?.mo:3t all ,the convicts,; ixa the, Kvezani Camp .,
>Arere used as laborers by Mae ~]~varelaeli~ Coal Mit3es Trn,st . No women. wire
held in. this .camp. The convicts never appeared by name an sty enter-
prise records but were always~regtaested by number. Payments to.the
camp were- also made on tlae .basis of the number of workers supplied 'by,...
the ,camp, i .e . , so many. convicts for so many wi~rking days . I do not
know .how much the administration of the Tkvarcheli Coal., Mutes Trrsst 50X1
paid th,e ezat3l Cam forte abor whick~i was supplied. However, ut~=
ti1.1948,
.~aed some C}ermaln PW tai ors w o we pt nano e ?
,For eaPh of .these laborers I had ico pay the camp administration 00
rambles a :month . As far as I know, only a si~tall part of these ~agewent
( paid by ,the Trust to the camp, probably about X00 rubles mv>+athly,
,~ to the convicts; the rest was retained lay the Carr~p ~ s adminlatrati4ta.
I do ncb ]i~Kll~t~ .how the output. of prisoners cr~pareol nth that of .free
`~ ~ df feretace , : s itrace the
laborers ~ ';'b~l'~,,,,~ .~t~.~~,eve. that tbere_, vas not , el
convicts? ~'ers itr~terested its working outside. the. camp area : v~here, i~'
nothing e~.FJB, th~~` deceived better food ~rati,ons and some pocket money.
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many inmates. rom he . eta
I believe that the number of corrective-labor eamg workers is now
much smaller thah it used to be before, during, and immediately
:--after-World War II. The worst period in tbi~ respect was durinyg
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n~am~-er of forced labor .camp inmates .started to dec~`~.ne rapidly,. An
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~xplanatiQ~ fir this is that in 19
with convicts of the YEZH4~ ~'gE ,.of ..1937_:?' Dur~inB the wad and i,mme~:
distely thereafter, a 'urge nu~x'ber of people . were sent to the -.camps
for ~ese,rt,~?n:,. evasion of military. seraice, speculations, change og
employ~aet~t witl~ot~t proper amtlaority, fleeing from kolkhozy, ..and
application of -many, decrees pertain-
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ing to labor was., not s? atri~ct any more,. and the .+~t~m~aer of co >tv~:a s
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- -~_~_.:.__L, _.., mti..a o~rr~c mAa f:M7P_ cif the 3'biliai HouB~.~~..P~O~@~t ~..
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