HUNGARIAN PRESS CAMPAIGN AGAINST KULAK SABOTEURS, LAX LOCAL COUNCILS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 351
• Publication Date: September 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RLSTRICir;D
3LrCUASTY IRFORI4ATI0id
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
Political - Local organisation, lalh pcrt~ecution
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PUSUSHED Daily ne-vapapers
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PUBLISHED Bud ape 3t
DATE
PUBLISHED '12 Juri - 6 .Tull 1952
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED iNFORMATiON
BUNGAR1AH PRESS CAL?IFAIGH AOAIlS!I' MRA
S4B??YEi'BS. LAX LXM COUNCIW8
Beginning in mid-June, a campaign against the kulaks orae
launched in the Hungarian daily press. While still moderate
until the first of July -- only five articles on the Subject
appeared between 12 and 30 June -- the campaign increased in
intensity sifter that date. Between 1 and 29 July, 46 attacks
against the kulaks appeared in the four leading Budapest dailies
surveyed (Ke sp zava, Szabad ft-p, niryar -9-et,
The line of accusation varies. During Jime, the kvleko were -
accused of letting their land lie fallow, of not deT?vering their
quotas of livestock, of black market slaughtering, and of not re-
pairing their agricultural machinery in preparation for the harvest.
The major crime of which the kulaks were accused in July is sabotage,
which manif.,sts itself in refusal to, harvest on time or to deliver
the harvested produce, in feeding newly harvested grain tote live-
stock, in storing the harvest in dirty or damp storage places, and
in hindering -- by word or deed -- the threshing and secondary-crop
planting operations of the working peasant.
An interesting feature of the, campaign is the attack on the
local councils and party committees iv. conjunction with the drive
against the kulaks. The local government organs are accused of
laxness against offenders, of losing touch with the actual problems
of the working peasant by paying too much attention to bureaucratic
red type, and, in some cases, of collaboration with the kulaks.
The reason for the drive against the kulaka and the local coun-
cils may conceivably lie in short crops due to spring frosts and
severe summer droughts. .
The following articles are representative samples of the propa-
ganda campaign against the kulake and the local councils.
STATE
ARMY
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Convict Fulaka for Illegal Slaughter
LFiaroly iuszka, a twice-convicted kulak from F'uzeogynrc t, was sentenced
to l9 years {.n prison end a fine for leaving 52 cadantral yo'.kcc fcllo:r donoito
repeated 'ccrcing.
Janos Szabo, a kulo': from CrcekvodLcrt :rho o na 32 cedantrcl yokes, did
not fulfill his pig, calf', and wine deliveries and vas sentenced to 13 conthn'
impri soaeaent.
The v iciow of Sandor Jorko, a 1, rlnk miller of La
help of Sandor Cicovszki -- ? false i sand old -- red the
- permit to kill pies,
and sla,u3utered five
pigs. Firs Jerks was sentenced to 7 month: in prison, Cicovszki to k months in
prison and a fine.(l)
Lai in Livestock 1'eliveriee
In Somogy Megye, the Csur.go jc'ses court recently tsarist^d tb ae Lz1Ln is
did not delis^ar tkric' :;rot,.-, Of PI;;:; z~Je-at. I~ u P,.ios uas sentenced
to 2* years in prison, a fine of 1,000 forints, and confiscation of 4,000 forinto'
worth of property. Istvan Polgar was sentenced to 8 months in prison and a fine
of 2,000 fnrinte. Imre Timar was sentenced to 12 years in prison, a fine of
1,008 forints, and confiscation of property worth 3,000 forints.(2)
STAT
Party Committee Functions inefficiently
Feder Megye is rich in natural resources -- bauxite and cost mines, end
productive soil. It is here that Sztallnvaroe and the Stalin Steelworks are
being built. The rapid economic development of the megye coincided with a
atresgtgening of its party organs, and the party committee, which directs the
life of the megye, has achieved some remarkable results.
Nevertheless, Fejer Magye still does not give the country all that the
people might-expect from it. There is a serious lag in agricultural deliveries;
and the majority of the party organs do not fight the kulaks continuously.
While most of the working peasants fulfill their obligations to the state, the
bulk of the kulaks are sabotaging the collections. In some places the kuleks
even distributed their animals among their relatives.
One of the most serious reasons for these shortcomings is the fact that
the party committee of Fejer Megye has become to bureaucratic. Its'members
spend most of their time behind desks, and are out of touch with the real prob-
lems of the people. The members of the committee dray up resolution after
resolution, but make no provision for the ececution of these resolutions.
The laxness of the committee in reflected in the workings of the local
party organs. For example, in Perkata the party leaders did not demand that
party members set a good example for the rest of the village when it came to
aeliveries; also, the local party leaders did not remonstrate with the village
coarcil when the council jut up with the failure of 58 of the village's 68
kulake to deliver their quotaa.(3)
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F,abot?{;e (~grieultuaal N chiner~
Kalman HgCdi, chief ms?siniet of the ^uzehtaoxinc machine station, has veakened
work discipline through negligence. He did not order the repair and maintenance
of the machines is time, and when the hervrst etart.d most of the nachines .ere
out of order. He sae sentenced by the Pecs jams court to 1 years inprison and
his political rights were suspended for 3 years.
did ulak K-Zroly I;ov:ace did not convert his mover into a coring machine e.nd
not rcp it his hnrve.stoa?. He tine sentenced to 9 months in prison. ICulc'z
Jozcef Z eri d1,30 ?cilcd to convert his mn;;er and was ncntcnccd to 5 months in
prison. The ma.chi.nea were confincrted.(4)
~e*:t:b
Loczlo Kovacs, a kulak from Iebenv rho ove,n000 27 ce?3 foriata _ztral because yokes he of
3-0
land, vas
reed to 4 months in prison and a tine of
took 21
sheaves of barley home and used it as fodder for his animals. The jams court
of 7brokszentmikl.o5 sentenced Jano,t ICmrdOZ, Jr, to 8 uonrhn in of 2,000 forin-^ for ?_+ 1j s vs of barley as fodder for h18`;cn
Barcza, a kulak from Nagyalavon.1' y n
animals. Gez
Piacation of k ~ , ~n sentenced to 10 months in prison and co-
,500 forints worth of property for not harvesting hie rye even
though the :,:oki.ng peasants in his neighborhood had already finished their rye
harvest.
A kulak from rid, Prnn Horvath, was sentenced to 7 months in prison, payment
of 1,000 forints, and confiscation of 2,000 Poriats~ worth of property for fail-
ing to harvest rye from 3 cadastral yokes by the required time limit. Alajoe
Bodis, who owns 30 cadastral yokes of land in daszarokszallae, did not harvest
his rye in time, He was sentenced to 6 months in prison, payment of 2,000 forints,
and confiscation of 3,0x,00 fori.ntu' worth of property. Jozcef Gorcz of Ealasz
--as sentenced by the Mosoamagy&rovar jaras court to 6 months in prison and a IF,oGo-
forint fine because he did not have his threshing machine repaired in time. His
tthreshing machine vas confiscated,(5)
Feeds Craim to `~imals
his Sandor Nagy, a kulak of Ja*zfelsoszentgyorgy, fed newly harvested grain to
pigs. Kulak Caspar Bordas covered the floor of his pigsty with barley. Pro-
ceedings have been started against these kulak saboteurs.(6)
Sabotage Harvest
uhi1_- the industrious rural population is vigorously engaged in harvesting,
the kulaks are busy harming their efforts with base schemes. For example, after
Jozcef Pandur, Jr, a kulak owning 28 cadastrsl yokes in Alsomoccolad, gomlo Jaras,
Baronya Megye, finished harvesting the grain which grew along the roadside, he
reported that he had completed his harvest. However, the working peasants dis-
covered that cereals still stood on his outlying fields and that the lose of grain
had already exceeded 5 percent, and reported him immediately to the authorities.
Pendur was sentenced to a 15-month prison term. a
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fiscatt..- .moo
,? p-T worm 3,000 forints. - -- -~???:, """'
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beapite repeated warnings of the lccal council, kulak Jenoo Lukacs of
Torokoseutg orgy, onigetvatr ? aras, Baranya ISegye, did not start harvesting on
time. Lnkacs owns 32 cade.m ral yokes of land, and has several previous con-
victions. He eras sentenced to 15 months In prison, a fine of 1,500 forints,
and confiscation of property worth 2,00 forints. Antal Eeres, a kulak of
3yora,rHyema Jaras, Pekes Megyo, was sentenced to 8 months in prison, P. fine
of 3,00+) foriuts, and confiscation of property north 5,000 forinto for cabo-
toging the harvest .(7)
Kulaks Sabotase Harvest and Threshin
During th> first week of July, harvesting was coenlet_cj in the viiluce of
Poter3, Hsranya Megye. However, the village could not start threshing because
Erna Komar, a 25-cad s.etral-yoke kula!c, had not started operating his threshing
machine despite repeated requests to do so. This was not the first time that
Komar retarded the village's working peasants in the fulfillment of their obliga-
tions. He sowed late, did not hoe, sabotaged deliveries, and started harvesting
only after the grain was overripe. The working peasants demanded that the village
council place Ko ar's threshing machine immediately into operation and have the
kulak arrested by the police. The Maras court of Pecs sentenced Komar to 3 years
in prison and a fine of 3,000 forints, and his thrashing eyuipa^nt nn:l erector
were conf 1 ..n' placed in ever;ticn on ;.h: co s by.
In Kote'el., Szolnok Megye, the produce-collection commission inspected kulak
Istvan Yrui