SOCIOLOGICAL; POLITICAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 162
• Publication Date: July 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Sociological; political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Andithan
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The battle against religious predudioea, against the survival of feudal-
landlord treatment of women, and other manifestations of ignorant and frequently
reactionary traditions and customs of the past is of primary Importance among
the problems of Communist education of the working masses.
In the hands of Russian Teariam, religior was an extremely poisonous
weapon of colonial oppression and vicious exploitation of the working people.
Tearist bureaucrats and native bourgeoisie skillfully and cunningly utilized
the rites and customs of the population of Central Asia as a ceans of enslaving
the people, particularly women. God, emir, mullah, landlord, and finally man
were the sovereign lords of the Uzbek woman.
The Great October Revolution freed the women of the last from oppreeelon
and ignorance and gave them equal rights. Soviet Uzbek women have made wide
use of these rights. Nevertheless, there are still some manifestations of
feudal attitudes toward woman, even on the part of some leaders, intelligentsia,
and party members.
Dzhabarov, director of.the Zaurakekiy Rural Soviet school. in Andizhanskiy
Rayon and member of the '*KP(b), prevents his wife from visiting the club, movie
theater, or meeting and forbids her to walk on the street with uncovered face.
The chairman of the "Politotdel" Kolkhoz; Sultanabad Rural Soviet, Voroehil v-
skiy Rayon, has two wives and has placed his first wife in the position of a
servant. There are many more such instances, but even one should be protested
with all possible vigor by every Soviet man. In some places, Party workerR
quilty of a feudal attitude toward women are merely censured and are given a
Party reprisal, remaining, however, in the Party ranks and maintaining their
posts. Similar half-measures, naturally not fulfilling their purposes, were
discussed at the 10th Congress of the KP(b) Uzbekistar. Worst of all is a
liberal unprincipled attitude toward those people, among them Party members,
who compel their women to wear the veil to maintain the old way of life.
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"'hone ne-orle ua -'asinine, this attitude wcmer., dishonoring them-
selve.eh ranifest.,iions of ooocurantiem, lose the right to be trusted and
cannot remr.in In even minor c11recting uor}, uarticularly in tha ranks of the
very instance of a feudal attitude toward women must be asl:osed and
rublicizeP to prevent a repetition of similar manifestations. Women must be
61-un a free and equal position in life. The duty of Party and komeomol
or,,~!nizetions is to fight agninat manifestations of reactionary survivals
fro:,- he old days, and to br'.ng to the people our progressive culture,
Recently there have beo. cases In Andizhen !llast of kolkhoz leaders
rr,' r,van poem rayon party workori holding toys," an old customary rite.
?ul,lic means, such as food and cattle, are consumed in performing these rides.
This is subject to criminal prosecution. Usmenov, head of the 1arkhamstskiy
Rayon Consumers' Union held. a "toy" for 2 days at rhich 50J people feasted.
Umurzekov, heed of the Aumakiy 4ayon Consumers; Union held a "toy" which
thcusendq attended. This was harried out with the approval of Pzemberdyye,
chairmen of the Rayon Soviet Executive Committee.
These activities of Usmenov and Umurzakov and other similar ones have
been sternly Judged by the shiest Party committee. The actual perpetrators
have been excluded from the party and punished. It is. necessary, howe?-er, to
carry out these lessons to the end and to draw all political and practical
r orclas ic..ns .
The 10th Congress of the i{P(b) Uzbekistan pointed out in its decisions
that the most important task of Uzbek Party organizations is "to strengthen
further the drive against manifestations of i.ationalism, religious prejudices,
survivals of a feudal-lenllord attitude toward woman, and against other sur-
vira'q of the past in the minds of the people." All mass-political and oul-
tuial-enlightenment work must be directed toward the extermination of reae-
tannery rites of the old times and survivals of capitalism in the minds of
the people and toward the Communist education of the masses.--B. -$lobodyenyuk
and A. Avrutin.
WOMEN'S ROa IN ANBIZEAN MAST -- Stalinekoye Znanya, No 46, 8 Mar 49
In Andizhen Oblast, 1,252 women have been elected deputies to oblast,
city, rayon and rv.ral. eovi-*.e. Seven are deputies to the Supreme Soviet
Uzbek SSR and two are deputies to the Supreme Soviet USSR. A total of
3,958 women, including 853 Uzbeks, are working in the oblast'e industry.
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