LIFE IN BUCHAREST: FOOD SITUATION/MONETARY REFORM/GAIN ENTHUSIAM OF MASSES/ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAFLETS/DANUBE-BLACK SEA CANAL/NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Life in Bucharest: Fed+Ai?'133`~aerti~q/lfarneterf Retoral/Gain.
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12. `Another incident teAing place during toe Youth Festiva! wai- '-.` t?ropring of anti-Com-
munist leaflets by a plane. of unknown nationality. 'Phi:. t.~,ok pi c- on 15 August 1953,
exactly at 11:10 PM In the evening. The plane flew aimDst 1=vet with the tops of houses
as it dropped leaflets while flying towards the Danube. It was going at a rapid. pace
and it did not circle around Bucharest, flying Over the city only once. Each leaflet
was approximately 25 x 15 cm in size, white, and with. writing oil only one side. The
writing said:
'Tineri si tinere cars partecipati Is Festival!-Impartasit.i s:Li.bovul vostru
strainilor care partecipa is Festival dela Bucuresti., spuneti-le cum a fost
luata bucata de paine Bela gura muncitorilor si a copil.ului vcntru pentru
a arata strainilor binatatea Comunista. Dati.?1 nfsra, spuneti?-le sa se
duca e~t. n ~
?Translati.on Youngsters who ) n.ti i.pat.e tr '?t Festival;
Tell your pains to the strarigers who participate i.n the ti oath Festival.;
tell them the way Corm-u^,:.sts took bread away from th_ worisers and from
yowr ctiildre,,i in order `o show the stu anger ' c:Umnvm4 t n i c'retn ~rrt6. 9encl
them 4Vayi tell them to .tu h?rne.
'Y,% veal At zi.un eLl be?ra-ri1 t.a.rli voeiLrc d6 eu-t l:r,gul m.,,=, rJ to 1. .]F9r r'G'it nt:$ti?
&costa nose c.t'-.lor fie aunt utal apr'-Prlat.t dti vol ci rnmer,i r1. t.ri.:r'eipra.?
Ihimnazeu va fit cc not 'Prtti.ar_r,a Ilcmta,Eis l.l.tera gi
'i 'analation The d.ay of r.Y.~ l l b,. rf,l i r. 1 t,r y PT'nm
Soviet 4om.l nn t i cn will cr`me Hand ttrl y l maf l e? t, t.,, a I'
God will, be with; % Long Ilve Free and I.ndr}er,1,t I .j'r.,._ r..
" Hatwe^n the 1H,a', tw,;, fen trnr c on I,he .1c: i I Le.t C-'r,: .1 r c , ;; :Iry .t dr.%3I.gn or Sketch..
The subject was 'A'c.g3st 'Pi, 19114; The Litt:rat?lnn by (3 1,:,r .. ,r,vleit, Arno', 'Ph4
oka'.nh reprrssent,e?d a fiamac.f.en I riser'' house? Pub- d~-,. , ""I "I t. wre- of this houste
were'oroken. In front of house wit:' the po.,r ff~.ru, r ar;,l h! wrl, ' Lt:t.1ng And Arying
with nor baby wnIle other I ti.rmer'a looPr-ri i n. aat?;,i,: ,fart, -. I. i i, .~i.ei, oo'LdI r aitzrying
the temcn.e i1:1 at,teamti.c. rI.t1 ? Ivtin, the It, I. . I.I.i,r, c-i., PI ture,d art n robbAr
having a pig I n ilia right hand and t ltc i'tamer, 9 ?i , n,i,o. l t.Yln - c l w I :.I,?ir coat, ci Rt1 1li$f
farmers). Ha wav alacT c1,:t -t;.ing other hou.oVcll t,.~,1.-? ?tl.l It'r., ;nn was cavelrod with
wrist watchee.
abot:t hn l t--li- ?i -r'Ix l',!.' pr +,, urutbay artier the
dropping], mlliti. agents r. tthed intn hcrjnca in !,hr r"!' 19'1r.11h.reat where leaflats
had been dropped and searched every nook. and craru:/ w; tit lrt,et zaal, Including g:trdand,
courtyards and rvote. Their ihcavy shoos ,.a%ed scunc. roof., o-:.1 t.tles to break. They
continued they e erch al.,. night, long and beli,ev,,d r.ha.t by r'oilecting all the 1,a.f1ot0,
no ono would knew tyb, e-i L the inc. i d.ent; hoping er,per i t.l :ly to i:? t de thn fact froAi tha
daleQatae to the Ycnith Fee tiv41 . However, nn thr> I cl.Iowi ng ds.y, , and for many d re
afterwards, the leaflets were the subject of many 3f,.c.rt-t, talk`` avid wh.lepering adtaalona,
and. a sourrce of groat enc..'r...ragement. to many ci.tizens of 1I .ct:art ?'t,.
C1os tha Dsnuqb-~i-l^.L~ack rr Sea Canal .~rej~l!.:.t
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d u ' , ng d OFR1 G~i t,iie n:ae- 1ac.1t. (men Cane i Pro,Jet. t and the i lheratlon of hems
of the inmates working on t.hi6 projec:t? was e.nc.ther event whir,!': marked the bogi.nning
of the Youth Pea ti va 1.. Many of the free wox?he r e and Ur : pn ci.i ere of the Lant-l pro4,4ct
returned to huchk,rcet, ynd we have heart from L. trtetn friend" that Peen intitE-ten ware
set free on this occ.a.aion. However, It Is a 1r.bl.ic fact known by everyone in BuchArest
that the project I.xe been completely abandoned, nct. as an a.et of clemency and not as a
rnau't of the imovl al on't adopted by the i:oarnruni e t au thor i t.i es U. net irate oartain
categories of polittcel pr.isonere but only bec.e;:sto of a ii.nal r'eal.t.zatlon that this
huge work canr.ot be ac:compli -shed? A friend of ours had seen the r-.a al works in May
1952 and maid that The c=al 172 1cm long, 40 m wide. and 30 m rier:.p. Hot,'aver, only
15 of the 72 km have been excavated and by the time the feivr Year Plan expired, it
would be humanly tmposreihle to have pierced, thro-jgh e'-one mo',nteins and hills (as was
envisioned by the Conununiets). A large error we m trade to 1h%- calcra1at.1ons as the canal
could never have been 72 kin long; a length of It5 Ian being Mc- only obtainable goal. The
Communist authorities. realizing that, the prc,le.c:t. c.o41d never bu r.?.uc.cessfully completed,
seized upon a,../ ex.c. se to shut. down the work.-.
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1 The Feativx1 was narked also by the appearance of a new Rwuanian natlonal anthem,
which actually is a hymn of preise to the USSR and to the glorious Soviet troops
who 11bersted Rumenla.'
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