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the Sumanian naval construction program into over-all Soviet plans.
Rx 40 increase efficiency in that branch, the “ovrom is reorganizing
Rumanian navy yards in such a manner that they no longer finish the
ships on which they work s henceforth, they will only make parts, which
theh will be furnished to the ~oviet Black Sea naval construction
yards. In t hese, the constructions will be finished. On the basis
of pres -nt plans, the “umanian yards will mostly construct parts of
river boats and submarines. ,he Black Sea boats on the other hand
will mostly be left entirely to the 5ovi t Navy yardse it must be
admitted, that this is even economically sound, far from any po itical
consifierations¢ since the Soviet Black Sea boats are of a far superior
quality to the ones produced in Kumania. 3
“4 third Sovrom, whose exact -ompetence so far remains to be
determgined, will direst the exploitation of at least parts of the
Rumanian wood market. “he “oviet interest in the Sumanian wo d market
is understandable, if one considers that under present arrangements,
Rumania is furnishing daily 400 freight cars of finest Carpathian woods
to the USSRe this wood can be transformed into plywooude -ince the needs
for plywood are rapidly rising in the US°R, it is believed in sumania
that the new Sovyopm might establish in the country several plywood
factories, which would furnish the USSR directly with Mumanian plywood.
Before the end of the winter other similar sovroms are bound
to be organized, in orcer to cover other areas of Rumania's economy.
It is hard to say at present what they will bee It is nevertheless
Likely that one of them will cover the whole textile branche Already
to this moment, kumania has ben erporting over 80% of i&MM@ its textiles
to “ussia, depriving by the same token its own domestic market of
essential goods. The same thing, by the way, is also true for numanian
agriculturee Despite the desperate shortage of meat and dairy products
in the country, Kumania exported last year 300.000 heads of cattle to
the USSRe the result is obvious; food rationing has become more
stringend than ever before and this sinter will be ons of the hardest
for the populatione it is estimated by “uranian cconomists, that in
cons<quence of the policies persued, in 1951 and 1952, the ‘umanian
po ulation wil be brought, economically speaking, to the cxact standard
of lifing of the soviet population by September or vetober 1953.
As has been pointed out previously, this is the very point at which
official and absolute economic integration into the Hussian economy
can be officially proclaimed, at the moment which will be considered
Pp Litically expedient.
his economic process is naturally creating a very bitter
resentment in the population. And this resentment in turn is the
basis for resistance movem nts, which are still plaguing the Red regime.
Among the Rumanian population, this movement is the so-called Iron Guard.
a religious and fascist politica} party. he .ron Guard Bas an
unb-lievabbe mystical appeal. For many Rumanian farmers and workers,
the dead leader Zelea Modreanu is something between a prophet and a
saint, and not eff rt can erradicate this feeling. Everybody in
Rumania is clearly aware of the ever-present action of the Iron Guard.
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