BROKO-BANOVICI RAILROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100800010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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PQ. October 1948
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1. The B ako-Bancriai railroad line which was recently completed by volunteer
Yugoslav labor groups, is of no- 1 European gauge and begun last May.
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eusive propaga3nd a campaign to encourage t1 people to *ork ac panied
uestruotice of this railroad. De monstrations, reprisals aind other pressures
om or rWgiom supplied a brigade or two fora period of two maxths, these
ens being replaced by fresh groups. The average number in each brigade
from 160 to $00 young men and women.
the rapid turnover in workers slowed the work, the authorities welcome d
ortunity of this period as training in "collective living and work" and
cal orientation. There were six hours of work each daffy and six more of
ation by political coaisears and Party intellectuals, The curriculum
tterned after the Soviet "Komsomol" (U*ion of Soviet Cowunist Youth)c*d
d courses for illiterates, Partisan spngi# news ls, lectures and
g. Special subjects such as C ist Doetriie, History and Organization
ffersd to ttjaieoted workers.
the first period of May and June, there were 14,041 workers from all
a of Yugoslav society jai from all Yugoslav r~publisa. Foreign.ao auists
is* represented in some brigades. This May-June group finished the road.,
r 18 kileauceters and laid six kilometers of track.
coed group worked during July and August. It was composed of 87 brigades
tailed 24,000 workers. The majority were students from all Yugoslavia,
ing some ZOO foreign co'uwniate from Eastern Surope and the, Tslka s. This
laid rails to 28 kilometers beyond Broke where they had trouble with two.
a and landslides.
d group which worked during September and October numbered approximately
workers who were mostly peasants and inhabitants of small towns.
id work and administration was directed by the General StOf of the
cork Brigades for the Breko..Baaovioi Railroad Line -
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