INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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Mechanisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stock-&r,,td.ing. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Statute Violations. . . . . . . . . . . .
Studies i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
INDUSTRY . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Quality-quantity Production . . . . . . .
HOUSING, WELFARE ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . 7
MISCffi1AREOU6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Mechanization Still a Mayor Bottleneck: Most of the broadcasts on agricultural production
in the period under review harp on the continued reluctance to extend mechanization to
an many phases of field work as possible, on the one hand, and the inadequate maintenance
and repair of technical equipment, on the other. Although to some instances the trade
unions are Paid to be the chief culprits, the claim is made that it takes more than trade
unions to prod the farmers and local agricultural officials into embracing the idea of
complf s mechanization and adopting a more scrupulous attitude toward the utilization
of available equipment. Lack of mechanical skill in the rural areas presumably accounts
for a great deal of the breakdovaa and inept handling of rta:hinery but that, it is
frequently pointed out, is not always the cane. "Indifferent attitude" and "under-
estimation" (khalatnoye otnoshenie, nedootsenka) are the terms most often applied to
local Party and Executive committees as well as to individual officials whose duty it
is to encourage farther mechanization of agriculture.
A KRASITY Kt+'RGAN editorial of 15 November is sharply critical c= the antiquated methods
of machinery repair employed by the oblast. agricultural administration. The ac-called
centralised method of tractor repairs whereby different parts of the same machine are
mended by kpacialized service men is said to be discarded in favor of tht outmoded
handicraft method. Nothing but this reluctance to introduce advanced technological
methods, eaya the paper, can explain the failure of so many r .chine-tractor stations
to cope with their asaigzments. What makes the situation "absolutely abnormal"
(soverahenro nenormalroye) is that new technological procesAee are always discussed,
bluepri:tad--anal left on paper. Progress in the meantime i+ "very olow" for the simple
reason that the repairs never catch up with the brF:RY.dowce.
It to a c'o~tuzate, eaye SEVERNAYA PRAVDA (18 N_-.-ember), that many of the Koetroma Oblast
Party, Soviet and waohina-tracto. station officials are "repeating the mistakes of
last y!iar." Par f?:= providing a sufficient number of mechanics for the Oblast work
shone, "they have not yet solved the problem" of training qualified tractor, combine
and cth'r r.arhIns cpe.~ators. The result is that even the vervlceable equipment cannot
be used :o.; txo-,hi:t work and "machines remain idle for long ;erfois of time." The
oblaaFt ri hr::i2aticr, schools for tractor mechanics, electricians and combine operators
are said l+;,.e deteriorated to such a "low level" that In some instances the graduates
know just Mbout as much as they did before their enrollment. Many of the MTS directors
are re ortei to be unwilling to send their :corkers to those ochoc'le for lengthy periods
due to the :*an7a;^er shortage at the ata,iono, tut that, stye the paper, is a very poor
excues be:auaa the shortage of ekilled mechanics and operators is more acute than anything
else.
A report from Alma Ats (18 November) quotes KAZAKHSTANSKAYA PRAVDA as saying that the
mechanization of agritiulture and particularly the livestock industry of the Republic
is "extremely unsay -factory." That paper is said to have revealed, for example, that
autumn plowing plans in the Republic "remain unfulfilled from year to year" and that a
variety of -r?iolations of agrotechnical work schedules "have a negative effect on the
crops." All this, it is explained,is due to the inadequate utilization of machines
and tractors aid the resultant "considerable idleness of maohinec." But inept employ-
ment of equipment, it appears, is only one evil and a lesser one at that, for it is
diaoloeed that
there are many cases where technical n,,:sna destined
for the mechanization of labor-cons-aming 7fork in the
livestock industry ... are not used at all.
The plain truth Ia, according to the paper, that most (bolahin_etvo) of the Republic's
machine-tractor stations "are far from satisfying (-daleko ne udovletvoryayut) the
daily resuirements of agricultural production. The situation is said to have reached
a new law in such large areas as West Kazakhstan, Aktyubinsk, North Kazakhstan and
East Kazakhstan oblasts where largely for technical reasons but also for reasons of
general inefficiency the MrS do not keep their agreements with the collective farms or
stock-breeding enterprises.
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 A summartzod version of a STAVR0POLSEAYA PRAVDA editorial (18 November) reiterates
the familiar official complaint that agricultural and other local officials are sloe
to derive any benefit from "last year's mistakes." The nature of those as veil as the
current "mistakes" in large-scale technical breakdowns. Again the "central method" of
:tractor repeirs in re"erred to as the only means of pro 4r mainte-ce, and the.failure
to.applyit is said to account for a great deal of the trouble. (It may be of some
interest to point out here that poor equiper : maintename and . technical breakdowns,
on the one hand., and the inadequate utilization of serviceable machines, on the other,
although often dis:uased in the same context, are uzna.ly referred to as two apparently
unrelated topics. The obvious purpose of this type of 'treatment is to dray the
distinction between the unwillingness or reluctance to fully utilize the available
machinery and. the patch-up repair jobs Which make such utilization impossible). Some
MTS work shops, the pager continues, do not have the. standard equipment necessary for
better repair job? on tractor and combines, particularly during the winter season,
and "it is not surprising therefore" (neudivitelno poetccri) that the machanics'
The autumn--vlntsr repair of machines, as frankly admitted by RADThNSICA D02+0s`:SCEINA
(19 Now tuber), 1113 causing serious alarm" (vysyy,syetee:yosnuyu trevogu). Although
the repair season began on schedule six weeks ago, less than one-fourth of the machines
needing mechanical sttenticu has been taken care of so far. Zust how serious the
situation Is. the paper does not intimate but this may be gathered ton its suggestion
that "only iamediate drsstic measures" will be able to clean up the existing mess,
effect a thorozo reorganization of "incorrectly organize a* labor end intensify the
CIDSR W S RSKA: B 'AA (26 Nov.) as "the basic reason" (golovae, pryohyna) for the failure
in the C-d*tzsi oblsst tractor-repair campaign. The machine-Factor stations "can and
should" rains the Ital of their work especially now that they have been equipped with
ell the necessary ;+e:epshernelia for a good job.
PRIlCARPATSlCA P'RAVDA. (26 November) says that +.he agetaultural a..,uixent in Stanislav
oblast as a ayho a is in a sorry state of disrepair and that the rayon Party and
agricultural otftotslc *have forgotten" that the machines have to be repaired. Whatever
repair. jobs bars been cc .eted,so far are said to be of "ex`.remly low'g ality";but
nothing is being dons to eliminate the shortcomings despite the fact that*"all this
mess" is key to the resp*ctiv*'Party Casmsittees and their Secretaries. Lax supervision.
from above and the p *,= implementation of decisions at this lasrar levels, says the paper,
have e m'aittl to produce a situation crying for "i ediat.,e and decisive" remedial
meaasures ZRAZN lC.'Rwx (29 November) bemoans the. fact that rso much "wonderful"
(zamechatelnie) machinery is lying idle and getting out of crier in the MfS and
said to have fodder steamers and a variety of cleaning and milking machines which were
purchased mat ax=,r but never used. There are two reasons for this lopsided mechaniza-
tion business, says the paper. One is.that:the collective farm chairmen who buy the
of integrating them inproduation. Another familiar reason is that the oblast agricultural
Regional broedmasts on the subject generally stress the two via aspects of the industry's
activities in addition to a variety of minor ones, which have been consistently neglected,
hay-mowing, alleging and the preparation of various types o f_fodder.---The losses.. sustained
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ZAKARPATSKA PRAVDA (14 November) says that now that the grain problem, "the most serious
and greatest of all problems," has been solved, the livestock problem is looming higher
than ever before in the'oblast. The Transcarpathian collective farms are not do1Lg so
well in their development of the stock-breeding industry, and isolated successes cannot
conceal the serious shortcomings, the paper says. Meadows and grasslands have not been
prepared and no measurers have been taken to plant sufficient amounts of root crops or
perennial grassea:
The' main cause of low livestock productivity on
most of the farms is the lag of fodder accumulation
behind the expansion of livestock herds.
The upkeep and feeding of cattle in wintertime is also the object of a KOMEMIBT
TAD3IF..7STANA editorial '(19 November). Assailing the Republic's livestock industry
offici.r..le for their do-'nothing policy in the face of "numerous and serious shortcomings,"
the paper yarns that "a hard winter is expected, and livestock losses are therefore
possible not only from undernourishment but also from cold and snow drifts." All the
material. resources for insuring adequate fodder supplies and winter quarters are
available, it is claimed, and the only thing that is missing is a little Initiative on
the part of the Party Committees and agricultural officials. It is due to their inert-
neen that "so many tasks have been left undone." Large quantities of cattle will be kept
for some time In remote winter pastures, and great losses may be incurred if something
is not done at once about building winter sheds for them. Garmeky oblast and Gorno-
Badhkhehan Autonomous oblast, two important cattle-raining areas, are said to have
failed in their fodder-procurement plans, and "urgent and exhaustive measures" to prevent.
livestock losses are needed: "Time does not wait, and every hour is important."
Following are a few extracts from regional comment on the progress of the livestock
industry:
MYnak--There is an unsatisfactory state of affairs in Baranovichi and Mol.odechno oblasts.
The (pasture and cowshed) plan has not been fulfilled in these oblasts, and thousands
of hectares of land which could be used as pasture remain fallow (21 November).
Pskov--`.f.h- r.o...ective farms of the oblast must take all measures to fulfil the State
plan for. -,:icreasing the number of cattle and raising their productivity.... In many
rayon people forget this fact (23 November).
Stallno--In many kolkhozes of Pershotravnevy, Krasnolimansky, Dobropoleky and other
rayons all the!: opportunities for obtaining fodder are not utilized (25 November).
Kiev- -Chernigov, Zhitomir, Sumy, Kiev and Poltava oblast kolkhozes have not prepared a
sufficient amount of juicy and coarse fodder. Many kolkhozes in these and especially
in the steppe area oblests have failed to fulfil the plan for construction of livestock
buildings (27 November).
Agricultural Statute Violations: A short broadcast from Alma Ata of 20 November refers
to the empire building activities of the director of the Kazakh Agricultural Institute
and his principal assistant. These officials, the report says, were found to be
"embezzling State funds, plundering products...." Ten members of the Institute who
attempted to unmask the nefarious activities of these "unrestrained lords" (zarvavahiesya
valmozhy) were dismissed from their post within a short time. This in,.a.dent, it is
intimated, is not so significant in itself but the element of complicity with higher
Communist officials lends a more somber aspect to the picture:
At the Alma Ata town Party conference the delegates frankly
stated that the Agricultural Department of the Central
Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party had "shelved"
(zamarinoval) the information on the unworthy behavior
of the Institute leaders.
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A eu ar:ze?i -reraicn of a ZARYA ',"OSTOKA editoria;. (2:.. Novexter, asserts that uneconomic
management ant `aq7 andering of socialist property" are in:,mFat.ible with the resolutiomH
of the '9th Party Congreee, The struggle for the preeervati^?n of accialist property
,;nder the d~;?_ aed ieadershir of the Georgian Corscu nisi Party "was weakened" (cnlabla),
and i>..Ith^agh m..::h haN already been done in the fight againe`. "!trap sgressore of agri-
cult'r t1 o_ _err and aau. nderer e of pablic funds" the heritage of times past has nct
yet? tee'- In a u.::mber of the Republic to t:4 o= ge.ni^.atlons,, it is
dic4_ Party ontrol is not sufficiently rigid to xrevent abuse. Party and
So. ie' . xge c._ a' ieTaa m7.:. et therefore concentrate their at ,ent.I cr cn "the ::omplete
..and_.. ing" (n: furt.h=- _ dare{' a.r offe-td).
-'b.;-y and eq. _
A 1^ng Tke,--henk:; anti:le car'_ ie:d by RADYATNSxA U-RAINA on 25 N: eejer but not broadcast
cekti.v~:s the tk;s~z_:anyyFig: i_ rtt_ra1 autho:it_es against -hampering with the cc=:.ective
far~? ,net?:diln_y fondy). The latter a-_ re (s?tiyaty) a-.d are
no", to "-^ -d e;%: PT_ faa pres=_i}ed, that is fcr :3ri4ai ~...y~at.II.+a;rv?t the
:to-,k and ximilar form: cf c?-':ec.*.. _ =:-r? ?,xp&ns`on. Not
c.. a 2. Ir) the indivisible
i"und. Th- for e:~r.ample, w_.hu` in Ter?:.'.t';k:y _ :.yon, vine .t 'a c.b:.3?t
>:d@'i ..en::' `.~ h4-v, g? , the better c-f he i'a.rty?e
#.in^ e e r n c.ns En U lx.er.` tr e elm -?.4. ..e:e:C ty o f
in r;L?r.:?.I i. :oftrr. z:haz"rly cr:.ti i. C1 ty ~a y ar,.:I g:!t,err1 art arie
~~~..a
'.lr"..36'".T1TM'. and. et-o.dy a'_d= ar ;e;.l. a r.~ocs_y he_te i .-idou ._:.y h.9i?'e
acm#!ethi_g d. 'R_t h the relict9nc.P ~ t. 9t,.e^c? ?.he:._ al.tho'gh the
offfcia; it that authorities usually :..rg c'= 'm-ly ' neglectiP ?, -Quids
the n."Mbirof trai'O:b or : upervie the'...:.- at.t'.endh.r_".e. M)T?'1T#e editcr{al on
thin subject (.18 Nov.) is ty_..iical of most of the regional c:?omment. In Rostov c'Ilast, it
Bays., mas'._. ~!.a^icu1.''T~ral studies have not been organized satisfactorily. The schools of
rayco a . r e v4-ere scheduled to t:: ain 857 farm ,rorkert, but only 353 ac t.:.ally
attended, n_a of th'_s rrant:er only 200 managed to stick it out to the end and pass the
rec'.zire3 The situation is said to be still 'rorf-e in a number of other
rayor..s-? there lc:'r:??;sality irstrzction, lack of study fac.ilit!es or both prevented entire
gro:;tp;o of from f:n:::shing their cou:..ea and passing the examinations. In Salek,
Oktyatr:; ::.y, and. a number of other rayons the 3-ye&r agri : u _tural curses "are
being dLLl.~yr. d ' : i apj.a:ert reawon" while in Orlrvakiy rayon many kolkhoz workers "were
u11jd-1l.li.ng tc a;?T.An ::V~wi' CL I (At, Indicated abc- e, references toy the, farmers' unwillingness
to s!.t.t:end :-hoc'l. are infr e _?::ent?, and the .rare admi .slonE to this effect are apparently
prompted t.y l.a.rge,..,;cale absenteeism with r:h:.^.h lo::sl authorities are enable to ~-ope.) As
one of .he rce':hods of at.terdaroe the raper suggests the emplo;r'ment ui
`?q;!alified ..? :_.. f. om institut.ionu and teaching establishments." as
irstrl ,..,.. for the :3?-?year c.^.uses
CHRRMOMCRS??:A J .DMUN.A (22 November) complains that the Odessa }'Last agricultural schools are
not doing t.hei.r s'har'e in the introduction. of scientific achie" ements and the experience of
leading into agricultural production. Here the accent is on the quality of
in.etr?cction at the 3-year courses which is reported to be conspicuously lacking in
Frur2r;;_;~iy, Shiryaevskly, Ovidiopolskiy and a number of other unnamed rayons.
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Production quality, Labor Efficiency & Economy Stressed: The familiar complaint that
industrial management is striving primari y for impressive quantitative production in-
dicea to the detriment of quality is repeated on the radio and in the press with
monotonous regularity. This race for quantity, it is claimed, invariably results in
large percentages of the output being rejected as inferior, and in the and both
quantity and quality are adversely affected. The rise in lator efficiency is said
to be anything but systematic, that is not always according to plan in terms of
percentage figures, and among some of the reasons mentioned are poor mechanization of
work process and unsatisfactory "organisation of labor" (organizateia truda) in
general. The perennial drive for rigid economy of raw materials and other resources
is kept alive by repeated exhortations to industrial workers to become economy-conscious
and eliminate the lavish use of materials.
A numbae of enterprises of the Kostroma oblaet Light industry, says SEY ZU.YA PRAVDA on
22 November, "do not show any effort" to -mprove the quality of their production. This
is particularly evident in the textile industry 'chose output is "of very poor quality."
Referring to labor efficiency, the paper stresses "the paramount importance of rigid
discipline" for which this industry is apparently not noted. A little cooperation
between science and industry would help a lot but, as the paper implies, would not
entirely solve the problem of lax discipline and low labor productivity. These should
also be dealt with by an energetic management with the tried and tested "Bolshevik
method" of criticism and self-criticism. An almost identical complaint was voiced by
&AAYA POLTAVSHCHZNY two days earlier (18 November). Labor productivity and therefore
also production in the oblaet'e light industry "are lagging behind the plan," it was stated.
Twenty-fou= Poltava enterprises, including the bread-baking combine, spinning factory
(pryadil.neya fabrika) and a variety of unnamed others did not fulfill their labor-
effiricncy and production echedule in the first nine months of this year. BOTBIALISTICHESKIY
DONBAS nays (20 Nov.) that "the quality of products of our machine-building Plante leaves
mu h to be desired." This is mentioned in connection with the current drive among the
plant engineers and technicians of the Kramatorsk Works to "rtluce the weight" of machines
and atop up their output. Hinting that these two processes do not always go hand in hand,
the paper auggeote that "the struggle for excellent quality (borba za otlichnoye
kacheetvo) must eupereede everything else, including the weight of the machines, and
argee the Party and Soviet organizations to take the sit::Ation in hand with a view to
achieving that purpose.
Established etandards of quality "are being crudely violated" (grubo narushayutaya) in
a number of Rostov Oblast enterprises of the consumer industry, according to $JLOT
(26 November). The coal produced at the Boguvayev-ugol Trust, for example, is of such
poor quality that in some cases entire-shipments were rejected by the consumers,
returned to the Trust and "those responsible were held liable." Similarly defective
is the output of other industries working for the consumer:
...defective footwear manufactured by the industrial council
ertels (arteli oblpromeovieta) can still be seen in the
Rostov stores. Bad quality metal kitchen utensils, furniture
and blankets also exist. The Novocherkasek "Budenny" plant
lost over 2,000,000 rubles through defective goods during the first
nine months of this year. The machine-building and metallurgical
enterprises of the oblast are suffering enormous losses from
bed-quality goods.
NADDNEPRYANBYA PRAVDA (26 November) appeals to the Khereon oblast industrial management
"not to show any liberalism toward producers of rejects" (ne liberalnichaty z brakorobami).
The losses sustained by the footwear industry due to wastage of raw material are said to
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be erormoie. and the same is reported to be true about the ]fherson canning plant,
steam ?engi.e wcrkn (lokomobilniy zavod) and a number of others. A report from 9molenak
(25 November) quotes RABOCHY PVT as criticizing the "disdainful. attitude" (prezritelnoye
otoosbenie) tovsrd ecc.romy and thrift on the part of some Oblast industrial executives
06vho hare forgotten about the regime of economy." Losses and excessive use of materials,
says the paper, characterize the work of the Smolensk lumber and metal-processing
industry and other enterprises including collective farms and machine-tractor stations.
The charge of 'forgetfulness" in connection with enforcing greater economy in
production is leveled also by VILNA UKRAINA of 26 November. The Lvov industrial
plants, the parer declares, have shown very little initiatire in the matter of
utilizing internal reserves. Nor have they done much toward a rational exploitation
of machinery. The city's automobile assembly plant (tavod avtomontathnykiv), the
spirits factory (spirtzevod) and the fate-producing combine (zhirkombinat) are cited
as outstanding examples of sloppy and vastetc1 production.
Housing Constr..ction And Welfare Activitieet The retail trade .rgsnizetione, says tie
1 Noreaber PRAVDA editorial, must pay more attention to the Soviet consumer by studying
his requirements and satisfying them. The procurement and distribution of goods among
the oblaeta, nays the paper, is still being dome in a haphazard way and in a number of
localities the service to the customer is bad. The consumer, it is implicitly admitted,
is frequently supplied with inferior quality goods of a very wimlted assortment.
PRAVDA'S previous strictures against taking advantage of the consumer, it appears, have
not alveyr- 'b'e-i taken too seriously:
It is inadmissible that the undertakings of the
light industry still produce goods of inferior
quality.
The housing situation is no less grim, according to the paper: "we are still suffering
from an acute housing shortage." It is not the lack of building materials or other
facilities that hinders the progress of housing construction but, as pointed out in
previous CFW reports, the general attitude toward the consumer is not a high-priority
object in the Soviet scheme of things. Nor is the failure to improve the lot of the
consumer ever referred to as "anti-State" as is?the ease with ideological or political
blurdern:
It is regrettable that we still have administrative,
trade union and Party leaders who regard the need of the
workers, for dwelling houses as . secondary affair (dolo
vtoroetepennoye)...
LENINGRADSKAYA PRAVDA (19 November) echoes the same sentiment. The oblast building
trusts are said to be repeating last year's mistakes by delaying the construction of
now houses and the reconditioning of old ones. Mismanagement and lack of responsibility
on the part of the building executives are given as the chief reasons. Plastering,
for example, is still being done by hand an are other aspects of the work despite
the fact that spacial machines are available for those jobs. Housing construction,
it is pointer out, has reached a new low in Vassilevskiy Oetrov, Kalininekiy,
Petrogredskiy, Kirovekiy, Srerdlovskiy and Leninekiy rayons. inadequate attention
to the consumer is also the object of a KRYFL45AYA PRAVDA discussion (21 November).
A large part of the consumer industry In said to have fallen short of the targets in
the third quarter of this year, and yet "there has been no perceptible change in
their work" In the fourth quarter. Food products, garments, knit-.rear, shoes and
building materials are listed as "underaupplied" commodities.
Town communal eervice, says KAZAKHSTANBKAYA PPAVDA (21 November), is still far behind.
the im4seaaed demands of the population, and retail trade "does not satisfy the
workers' requirements." In Leninogorak the house construction plan "is not being
fulfilled" while in East K:azakhetan Oblast only 26% of the planned houses have been
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completed so far. RADYANSSA UKRAINA (25 November) says that the consumer is all too
often abused by the retail trading organizations and it is high time to think of
his Welfs ss
In a number of places, as for example Lvov, Odessa,
Poltava and other cities footwear and garment-making
and repair Shope, metal goods repair shops and
cleaning and dying establishments do not meet the
people*s demand.
V ryadi mist, napryklad, u Lvovi, Odesi, Paltavi to
inehyth, mayeterni dlya poshyttya I lagodzhennya
vzuttya to odyagu, po remontu metalovykh ? ybori?;r,
khimir..hniy chysttsi i farbuvannyu ne zadovalnyayut
potreb neselenia.
The trade network itself is reported to be shot through with "opportunists, unscrupulous
people and thieves of communal property" (nevypadkovy, nechesny lyudy, rozkradachi
narodnogo dobra). Evidence of such untried and unreliable personnel has been noted
in the retail outlets of Voroshilovgrad, Chernigib, Drogobych and a number of
(unnamed) other oblasts. The above-mentioned "evidence," however, is not amplified.
Critical editorial comment on consumer services Is heard also from Transcarpathian
Oblast (21 November), Stavropol krai (25 November), North Ossetia (26 November),
and Tbilisi, Georgia (30 November).
Miscellaneous: The use of radioactive isotopes in treating malignant tumors and
malignant growths on thyroid glands, says Prof. Iiuzin, has been singularly successful
and is preferable to X-ray and radium which inevitably affect the live tissue around
the growth. (Home Service, 22 November).
A sun reflector designed by astronomer Bukbman is said to have produced good results
in the treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia and skin diseases (30 November).
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