SOVIETS ENCOURAGING POPULATION MOVEMENT FROM UKRAINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170376-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 376
• Publication Date: April 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Sociological - Population movements, manpower
HOW Economic - Industry
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Istanbul, Athens, Helsinki
DATE
PUBLISHED 24 Jan-1 Feb 1954
LANGUAGE Turkish, Greek, Finnish
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SOVIETS ENCOURAGING POPULATION MOVEMENT FROM UKRAINE
NEW DEPORTATIONS IN USSR -- Istanbul, Cumhuriyet, 26 Jan 54
According to reports reaching here, new large-scale deportations have be-
gun within the USSR. In recent weeks, large groups of "volunteers" have been
deported from the Ukraine to unsettled areas near the Manchurian border, al-
legedly because of overpopulation in the Ukraine.
SOVIETS SETTLING ISOLATED AREAS OF SIBERIA -- Athens, I Kathimerini, 24 Jan 54
New reports on Soviet attempts to settle new populations in the isolated
regions of Eastern Siberia reveal that a large-scale transplanting of popula-
tions is now in progress. According to official Soviet statements, people are
being taken from the heavily populated areas of western Ukraine and brought to
the Berobiza region near Khabarovsk on the Manchurian frontier. Khabarovsk is
an important communications link on the Trans-Siberian Railway and on the Amur
diver.
SOVIETS ENCOURAGING MOVEMENTS OF PERSONNEL TO SAKHALIN -- Helsinki, Helsingin
Sanomat, 1 Feb 54
Reliable sources report that the USSR has begun an extensive movement of
agricultural and industrial personnel from the Ukraine and the Caucasus to
Sakhalin Island and other non-European USSR areas. The report was attributed
to radio broadcasts of 30 January 1954, from Lvov and Drogobych, offering
special travel advar'.ages and money to workers willing to move.
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The broadcast reportedly urged any farm or city family with at least two
employable persons to settle in the Sakhalin or surrounding area. The workers
were offered free transportation and food and financial aid of 1,500 rubles for
the bead of the family, with an addit;onal 300 rubles for each member of the
family.
Radio stations of the northern Caucasus have made similar announcements
offering comparable advantages to workers willing to settle in the Sverdlovsk
and Chelyabinsk areas behind the Ural Mountains. Reliable sources report that
the USSR has extensive military industries there.
Another radio broadcast from Lvov on 30 January 1954 urged the. agricultural
workers of the western Ukraine to move to the "rich" areas around Odessa,
Stalino, and Nikolayev in the southern Ukraine. All were promised exemption
from agricultural and income taxes for the beginning of the settlement period.
Other advantages were cited, such as'aid in building and renting of homes.
The broadcasts did not indicate how many workers were needed. The writer,
however, believes that the numerous broadcasts of this type from southern and
western USSR gives reason to conclude that a large shifting of people is in-
tended.
Informed circles in London believe that this campaign of encouraging workers
to scatter into many areas indicates that USSR is facing an economic crisis.
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