PLAN FOR DISSOLUTION OF COLLECTIVES IN STRUMICA DISTRICT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500180006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NC.
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SUBJECT Plan fc r Dissolution of Collectives in NG. OF PAGES 1
Strumica District
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In order to appease the movement among the peasants to get out of the
collectives, in September 1951. the District Peop & s Coti ric:il and the
District UDB in Strumica ordered local officials to-hold meetings of
collective members and to explain to them that if the majority of the
members of a collective vote for its dissolution, that collective will be
dissolved as soon as harvesting has been completed and the accounts of each
member have been prepared b,r the collective board,, The dissolution of such
collectives would occur at the end of 1951. After the collective has been
dissolved., the land belonging to the collective will be divided among the
collective members according to the number of members in each family,
Then all of the peasants of each village would have to form a cooperative
called Stopanstvo (Economy)D
The peasants would be instructed by the Stopan too as to what they must
plant., and how much production is expected of them. All harvested products
would be surrendered to the Stopanstvo which would then sell. the products
and pay the peasants for the products they surrendered The officia1v
also told the peasanta not to expect any aid in food from the Government-
The peasants of the Strumica area doubt that the Goverment considers
seriously the plan for a Stopanstvo,, and they believe that the plan wag
revealed only to ensure that the harvesting of corn would be completed,
The peasants fear that voting will not be free and that they will be
persecuted for voting for dissolution of the collectives,, They
believe that the establishment of a Stopanstvo will notgreawly change
their living conditions,, They also believe that the regime will cheat
them because the Government can fix the prices of their products and of
consumer goods and that the members of the Communist Parl'y will be given
the better lots of land when the collectives are dIssoivedo The peasants
dO not expect to receive the land they owned before the collective was
established,.
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