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Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia

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assembly with resolutions that would push through nationalization of banks and heavy industry and transfers of land to peasant communities. Elections took place on October 22, 1939; the official numbers reported participation of 93 percent of the electorate, 91 percent of whom supported the appointed candidates. On October 30, the People's Assembly of Western Belarus session held in
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archives, for many years after the war the estimates of the number of Polish citizens deported to Siberia from the areas of Western Belorussia, as well as the number who perished under Soviet rule, were only estimated. In August 2009, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the authoritative
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were designed to give the annexation an appearance of validity, but were far from free or fair. The voters had a choice of only one candidate, often a local communist or someone sent to western Belarus from Soviet Belarus for each position of deputy; the communist party commissars then provided the
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The Soviets quickly began confiscating, nationalizing, and redistributing all private and state-owned Polish property. During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens across Kresy. Due to a lack of access to the secret Soviet and Belarusian
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Support demonstrations were staged by pro-Soviet militias. Immediately after entering Poland's territory, the Soviet army helped to set up "provisional administrations" in the cities and "peasant committees" in the villages in order to organize one-list elections to the new "People's Assembly of
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voted to approve this on November 1, 1939. On November 14 the law on the admission of Western Belarus to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was signed at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Council.
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announced that its researchers reduced the estimate of the number of people deported to Siberia to 320,000 in total. Some 150,000 Polish citizens perished under the Soviet rule.
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alone, resulted in the Soviet state gaining 131,000 square kilometres (50,600 sq mi), and increasing its population by over seven million people.
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was portrayed by the Soviet propaganda as the "liberation of Western Belorussia and Ukraine". Many ethnic Belarusians welcomed unification with the BSSR.
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1940 USSR postage stamp celebrating the "liberation" of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus
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Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-century Europe
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dominant in the cities. These lands now form the backbone of modern
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The annexation of the Polish territories, which were added to
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Stosunki polsko-białoruskie pod okupacją sowiecką (1939-1941)
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Stosunki polsko-białoruskie pod okupacją sowiecką (1939–1941)
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On September 17, 1939 the Red Army entered Polish territory
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Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe: 1939–1950
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Soviet Union
invaded Poland on September 17, 1939
eastern provinces
Second Polish Republic
ethnic Poles
Polish Jews
Western Ukraine
Western Belarus
Soviet Byelorussia
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet invasion of Poland
Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union
On September 17, 1939 the Red Army entered Polish territory
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Nazi Germany
the German Reich
Belarusian
elections
Belastok
Polish Białystok
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
BSSR Supreme Council
Soviet invasion of Poland
Polish Institute of National Remembrance
National Unity Day (Belarus)
Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia
Alice Teichova
Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-century Europe

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