SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A002100040002-4
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 8, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
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November 3, 1975
No. 0771/'5
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SOVIET UNION - EASTERN EUROPE
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the USSR - Eastern Europe Division, Office of Current Intel-
ligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the
Directorate of intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should
be directed to the authors of the individual articles.
November 3, 1975
Soviet Military Parade
May Be Less Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stirrings in Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Soviet Military Parade Play Be Less Military
'T'his year's military parade through Red
, ',acuare on November 7 may not include the tracked
vehicles and large missiles normally seen in the
past. US attaches who have observed two rehearsals
saw only half the amount of equipment of previous
years and none of the large pieces. Such rehearsals
usually correspond closely to the parade itself,
although the Soviets have on occasion displayed
equipment on November 7 not seen in rehearsal.
If the large equipment is deleted from this
year's anniversary event, it could mean that the
Kremlin has decided to play down the martial trap--
pings of the celebration and thereby bring it more
closely into harmony with Moscow's "peace program."
Since Helsinki, Soviet propaganda has made much of
the need to complement political detente with a
relaxation of military tension.
Last year, the concluding civilian portion
of the parade was abruptly canceled, ostensibly
because of inclement weather, but probably to pro-
tect the health of the aging Soviet leaders on the
reviewing stand. The resulting predominance of
military themes provoked a flurry of unwelcome
Western press speculation and may have prompted a
closer look at the format for this year's activities.
More mundane considerations may also have
figured. in the decision to forgo a display of heavy
equipment this year. The Soviets may be trying to
protect recently resurfaced roads along the parade
route. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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Stirrings in Albania
Albanian party leader Hoxha is evidently keep-
ing up his attack on the nation's intellectuals and
bureaucrats.
Mahmut Bakali, the president of the
League o Communists of Kosovo (Albania's neighbor-
ing Yugoslav province), said that there had been
"enormous political dislocations on a large front"
in Albania. Bakali, who is probably in as close
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touch with events in Albania as any outsider, said
that attacks on the intellectuals resulted from
Hoxha's fear of pro-Soviet tendencies among some
officials in Tirana and that a shake-up was still
going on in the government and economic spheres.
Reports of purges of several leading Albanian
officials last summer have now surfaced in the West-
ern
Tirana's silence on the ousters leaves their
rationale open to speculation, but it seems clear
that they probably go back to the sacking of De-
fense Minister Balluku in the summer of 1974. His
dismissal took place amid signs of a mounting
struggle between those in the party favoring a
hard-line policy in domestic and foreign affairs and
those endorsing a more moderate position.
Bakali seemed convinced that this summer's
dismissals stemmed from a dispute over economic
planning and foreign trade. Two of the officials
purged were the minister and vice minister of
trade, but no word on their replacements has yet
come out. Bakali said that Albania's need for capi-
tal will compel Tirana to turn more to the West,
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but so far there are no signs that Hoxha is inter-
ested in this. In the meantime, Hoxha and his sup-
porters continue to maintain Tirana's hard line in
the Communist world and its adamant opposition to
any form of cooperation with Moscow. (SECRET NO-
FORN)
November 3, 1975
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