| Summary: | Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. This item was transmitted from the Hamburg field office.
This field report was assigned the following topical and geographical subject headings by the RFE/RL: Czechoslovakia; Border Zones -- Traffic; Communications -- Waterways; Standard of living -- Food; Border Zones -- Security Measures; Border Zones -- Smuggling; Standard of living -- Shortages
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