Area Handbook for Bulgaria

by Eugene K. Keefe; Violeta D. Baluyut; William Giloane; Anne K. Long; James M. Moore; Neda A. Walpole

Product	Unit	1960	1965	1968	1970	1971
Electric energy	million kilowatt hours	4,657	10,244	15,451	19,513	21,016
Coal (cleaned)¹	thousand metric tons	10,630	10,116	9,930	7,280	6,450
Lignite	do	5,356	14,926	20,967	21,971	20,558
Coke	do	20	733	817	837	1,091
Crude oil	do	200	229	475	334	305
Natural gas	million cubic yards	...	94	662	619	428
Iron ore²	thousand metric tons	188	585	870	792	993
Manganese ore²	do	7	13	12	10	12
Pig iron	do	136	547	1,064	1,195	1,329
Crude steel	do	253	588	1,461	1,800	1,947
Rolled steel	do	193	431	1,028	1,420	1,752
Steel tubes	do	11	10	19	114	136
Copper ore²	do	11	30	37	42	n.a.
Lead-zinc²	do	173	180	168	173	n.a.
Electrolytic copper	do	14	24	37	38	n.a.
Lead	do	40	93	93	97	n.a.
Zinc	do	17	66	75	76	n.a.
Cement	do	1,568	2,681	3,512	3,668	3,880
Timber	thousand cubic yards	5,046	5,680	5,140	5,166	4,923
Paper	thousand metric tons	54	85	187	200	215
Nitrogen fertilizers³	do	84	246	276	287	306
Urea³	do	2	15	228	315	256
Superphosphate⁴	do	41	94	136	148	146
Pesticides⁵	do	2	6	12	15	16
Automobile tires	do	172	327	333	546	730
Internal combustion engines	thousand horsepower	155	179	280	229	250
Metalcutting machine tools	thousand units	3,145	8,063	11,160	13,945	14,636
Presses	do	203	609	944	977	763
Textile looms	do	505	555	1,088	676	437
Tractors	do	...	2,800	2,961	3,493	4,668
Freight cars	do	2,007	1,583	1,550	1,991	2,016
Electric forklift	do	3,104	16,562	22,673	29,641	30,202
Telephones	do	80	57	245	349	416
Ships	do	12	11	26	27	n.a.
Radio sets	do	157	130	139	145	148
Television sets	do	...⁶	74	158	193	158
Refrigerators (domestic)	do	3	41	91	134	140
Electric washing machines (domestic)	do	38	89	184	56	57
Cotton textiles	million yards	239	355	349	349	355
Woolen textiles	do	20	31	25	29	31
Footwear⁷	million pairs	7,534	10,062	15,671	13,627	16,095
Leather shoes	do	(4,251)	(5,154)	(5,781)	(4,105)	(4,694)
Rubber footwear	do	11,239	12,683	13,485	12,805	13,683
n.a.—not available.
¹Anthracite, bituminous, and brown coal.
²Metal content.
³Nitrogen content.
⁴P₂O₅ content.
⁵Active ingredients.
⁶Fewer than 400 units.
⁷Excluding house slippers and rubber footwear.

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SECTION IV. NATIONAL SECURITY

CHAPTER 15

PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY

To maintain order and to retain control of the population, party and governmental authorities rely on a number of police and security organizations that are able to exert physical force and, also, upon a group of large social organizations that are able to apply social pressures. When individuals, in spite of the efforts of the law enforcement agencies and the social organizations, engage in antisocial or criminal behavior, the courts are charged with handing down appropriate sentences, and the penal institutions are concerned with rehabilitating the individuals for eventual return to society as cooperative and productive members.

People's Militia units throughout the country are the local police forces that enforce the laws, combat crime, and monitor the population. They are assisted in local law enforcement by part-time voluntary paramilitary auxiliaries and, in serious situations, by a small, centrally organized, full-time internal security force that can act as a light infantry unit and move quickly to any part of the country. State security police, evolved from the secret police of the 1940s and 1950s but much reduced in size, deal with crimes that are national in scope or that pose a threat to the society or its institutions. Authorities credit the security police with having almost eliminated the possibility of large-scale subversive activities. The militia, its volunteer auxiliaries, and the security units are organized within the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Border and construction troop organizations are administered separately. The Border Troops, charged with defense of the country's boundaries and with control of a border zone around the country's periphery, are a part of the Bulgarian People's Army and are under the Ministry of National Defense. The Construction Troops are labor forces, but the bulk of their personnel comes from the annual military draft, and they are organized into regular military units and are subject to military regulations and discipline.