from the integral activity of the pro-scatalist church, many belarusian catholics had their national identity taken away, that is, they themselves began to perceive and call themselves poles. the task was even more ambitious: the poles had to become orthodox ethnic belarusians, that is , they had to change not only their religion, but also their nationality. the interwar polish administration imposed on the local population that a catholic is privileged; all others are second-class people. this was the most dangerous thing, because such expressions are, uh, xenophobic. the entire kreflot katsap all these expressions, which were introduced through living conditions and propaganda. khizmatok, if she, of course, only incited interethnic and interreligious hatred towards the orthodox population, they were looked at as outcasts, as

second- and third-class people who cannot even find a job, because if there was any at the moment . eh hmm reduction, then the orthodox were reduced first of all at one job, they will work in the fields and in belarus, then there will be a pole, yes, the salary in belarus is half of them dissatisfaction with the palanization policy, the fact that belarusians were forced to forget their native language , to deprive them of their faiths and ancestors of ethnic identity, led to a massive national liberation movement. on the territory of the eastern voivodeships of poland, the most massive party of the national liberation movement operated underground. the belarusian village, worker community organization was created on the basis of the belarusian ambassadorial club, and in the twenty-seventh year it consisted of from 90 to 100,000 people, besides it there was also the communist party in western belarus, take a collective

portrait of a businessman. national weapon. yes, from the same uh, activist communist couple, we go to belarus. yes, these are young lads of 20-25 years, young lads did not know anything according to polish will. yes, ikea is french on earth, extraordinary people in issahi. what i found in one dream was that many famous cultural and artistic figures were members of the belarusians, the national liberation movement. gregory screen. maxim tanks valentin talai, they even while sitting in prison published handwritten journals summarizing them more than once were sentenced to prison. tavlay was even expelled from the gymnasium because he called himself a belarusian, a creative person, he wanted to write , they said, so they should beat the grass out of such people , elk first. they're still a-ah. they were released to dance. they managed to take, let’s say, smaller ones and simply , on the delivery, valentin tollaev recorded his

achievements. quietly, who raised people to the strikes to the uprising of the potato birch, in general, all attempts are controlled on the register. there is some way to get in touch and establish this relationship. in peony. hanged our elevator in prison hanged three such famous people, that is, they quickly dealt with all the undesirables, mercilessly i must say. one of the largest examples of the national liberation movement in western belarus, the uprising of the naroch fishermen , led to the adoption by polish families of the so-called fish law, according to which all rivers and lakes of the country are subject to nationalization. i just decided to ban fishing for people who

simply survived on it. it's clear what happened social waves by a large landowner, a belarusian polish landowner, and those same lakes were leased out, including lake narochka, and the local residents, ancestors, who called the lake our breadwinner, and they had to come to work in the naroch region, which at that time was part of the belinsky voivodeship. poland has more than 50 lakes. fishing has been practiced on these lands for centuries, and for peasants this fishing was the main and often the only source of income and imagine they put it before the fact, the lakes are leased land to the owners. the fishermen did not have enough patience in the fall of 1935, unrest began ; self-defense squads were formed and did not allow people who collaborated with the authorities to approach the lake; they were called agents, deppendives, polish, intelligence, or simply ostreitbrechers. fishermen turned over boats

with police officers. they were not afraid of threats or arrest, then many of the timid ones ended up in the villina prison, lukiški and in the concentration camp, beryozovka kuryak in unrest against the agrarian and tax policies of the polish authorities over 5,000 people from forty villages participated; fishermen from the entire belinsky voivodeship joined the naroch villages in the spring of 1936; the directorate of state forests refused the lease. narochs and fishermen became the masters of the lake again, and in 1939 the polish authorities were forced to make concessions. by allowing the peasants. resume fishing in the lake. formal duties were to carry it out with less

tension and resemblance to the problem that grew up in you in the forest of lakes, who will cut whom the authority the right of authority and so further, the polish lada, which was not destroyed, and they knew how to solve this problem, the western belarusian poet maxim tank, who was an active participant in the liberation movement against the polish authorities, dedicated a poem to naroch. maxim tank knew firsthand about the uprising, because he himself was from the naroch region , born in the pilkov region. it was in the modern myadel region that i went to school in the neighboring village. and when he was eight, his homeland became poland, his native language suddenly became banned for defending his national interests , evgeny skorko, the poet’s real name was under close attention of the police and not sectioned in prison. the first sentence was 20 years,

and one of the organizers of the komsomol underground of western belarus, the future chairman of the supreme council, sergei pritytsky, also received a life sentence from the polish authorities. the first time he was arrested, he was sent to the post-iron lakes from our relatives and you know what kind of torture they were unable to achieve anything, they put boards on his chest and beat him with weights until part of his lung was knocked off. another major uprising took place in the polesie voivodeship. thirty in the summer in the third year, the police came to a peasant family to confiscate two cows because they had not paid taxes to the polish state. yes, the legs were very big. therefore, even in the house, will you ever eat an egg or slaughter a calf? for yourself, it

was considered that you were not a crime. how did you allow yourself to take advantage of this or, uh, kill some rooster? this is all that is put on the market in order to earn money to pay taxes. the entire male population, about 150 people, took the side of the peasant, the police shot at crowd, but the polishchuks did not disperse, but responded by attacking the police. the network of punitive institutions on the territory of western

belarus was quite extensive ; there were prisons in all large cities. in all mines, a police station operated and a concentration camp, where active participants in popular uprisings were sent , the murder of the minister of internal affairs of poland bronislaw pirate served as the reason for the creation of a concentration camp, pirate was killed in warsaw on june 15, 1934, and already on june 17, the president of poland ignatius masticki signed an order on the creation of the kartuz concentration camp in the city of bereza was officially intended to combat active elements and national minorities. the first group of prisoners arrives in birch already in july. after the camp was unstuck in birch, the city became closed. it was possible to enter here only with special passes to the local population to approach the camp. it was forbidden. this was the first concentration camp on our lands and one of the most cruel in history. the commandant of the camp , grefner, described his brainchild as follows:

that there are so many two ways out of our camp. it was to their own funeral or home, the first mother went to dachau for the insane, like a cop. on and dressed up the functionality of the stall. the prisoners in the concentration camp were under special guard for four prisoners. one policeman on the perimeter of the camp loophole with a machine gunner, the barbed wire was energized. every word was followed by a baton and they were forbidden to speak. they were deprived of the right to speak, the right to demand some for everything, they beat them with batons, whatever the police wanted. that means i came to beat him bought, if the judge made a decision to send a person to a concentration camp, birch, kartuz,

it was not subject to appeal. this was the final verdict. prisoner in the birch kartun camp, they had neither a first name nor a surname and a schlager number, as soon as the gate was closed behind the person, a command sounded. run and march. here, in general, all orders were carried out at a run. it was the most athletic camp, it was a hell of a day, as it was considered a day off on sunday, the prisoners were released from work, but were obliged to stand at attention all day long against the wall, not touching her was difficult to bear. the prisoners' working day began at 4 am. and this despite the fact that during the night they were repeatedly raised for morning roll call. breakfast, work either in the workshops or in the field, the prisoner was harnessed to a harrow; some were more fortunate; they made

stone slabs with which they paved the streets. well , if the guard doesn’t like something, the punishment is punishment: bloody trail, that’s what the prisoners called this punishment. but the policeman called this punishment travel to stalin, the path was lined with broken bricks and the prisoner must was to get on all fours and crawl along this path. well, also raise your hands up. the worst thing was to get into the crankcase; former powder magazines were converted into a cold room, which was constantly filled with water and fed with water and bread every other day. i found myself sneaking there until 8 for a minimum period of an hour, and all for the purpose of how to morally suppress a person and feast on

his new story. what a downtrodden, driven and afraid of the leather man on the side of the escort. no, that means they left a number of people there to clean up and be there, but not always, he says, even give us some grass. it is impossible to say today how many people passed through the polish concentration camp. according to archival documents, about 3,000 over the 5 years of its existence, but researchers note the fact that, starting in 1938, residents of western belarus, including women, began to be brought here en masse , so the number of prisoners reached almost 10,000 people , but this cannot be documented. the camp ceased

to exist on the day when the red army crossed the border and began its liberation campaign. on september 1, 1939, world war ii began war on this day at 4 am the german armed forces crossed the border of poland, the first bomb fell already at 4:26 during the day there were dozens of luftwaffe soldiers flying combat missions. today it is extremely rarely remembered that bombs released on september 1, 1939 also fell on belarusian cities. after all, they were part of poland. the first bombs fell on

grodno on september 1, 1939, so again we say that the territory of western belarus met everything that the beginning of the second world war, one of the first objects, railway junctions, radio stations airfields, the third reich could not leave intact, moreover, if parts of the polish army were stationed in the cities, the residents of baranovichi learned what fascist bombing was in september thirty-nine on september 15, 1939. baranavichy girls were bombed, the radio station was bombed, both railway stations were bombed or the airfield was killed, wounded, we can’t say how many? well, of course, uh, they suffered, just like , for example, the same military suffered, purely by chance. peaceful life, we should not forget that the troops paul served a lot

belarusians, according to some historical data , 75,000 people were part of the polish army, as a rule, these were residents of western belarus called up for military service. first of the war was the brest fortress. i felt it in advance , let’s say. so, since already in march of the thirty -ninth year, when the first implementation was announced in poland, many military personnel who served in military service here were sent to other regions. including on the western borders of poland and then these people took part in the defense. warsaw of its western borders, large mobilization points were located in grodno and brest, but mobilization took place throughout the country, including four voivodeships, which poland called the eastern rats. another option was to take measures to organize the defense, according to the report of the brest political elder. heila is already on september 2, 1939, the city of brest. and the brest fortress. they were subjected to german invasion of this separate city and the fortress was abandoned. more than 10 seconds

then they said that no one thought that a german soldier would still reach the brest fortress. well, that’s what happened when the german units of general guderian’s 19th army corps found themselves at a post above god and evacuated seven japanese officers from the city. she set up anti-aircraft artillery in the fortress waves to defend the fortress. it began on september 14, when parts of the wehrmacht approached the citadel. this is a rather little-known fact in the history of the splendor of the fortress, but, nevertheless, for almost 3 days, about 4.5 thousand officers and soldiers of the remote army, among whom were, uh, natives of the local regions of our regions , defended the brest fortress and uh, on the night of 16 on september 17, 1939, the decision was made to leave. eh, fortress, since there was no longer any possibility of turning it around, there were very large losses. many

soldiers of the polish army are belarusians. by nationality, they were captured not only in brest , but many remained in captivity until the forty-fifth year, some were liberated by the red army, some managed to escape, mikhas vasilek also more than once, the victim was taken into the polish army, met his thirty-ninth year in the polish army, ended up in a german concentration camp . and in the forty-first year, having run away with concentration camp fell to the red partisans and participated in the partisan movement already in a. b. near grodno. on september 1 , 1939, with the outbreak of war in poland , the soviet union announces general military mobilization, despite the fact of non-aggression signed by molotov and ribbentrop a week before. poland concluded a peace treaty with germany back in thirty-four , such friendship as there was the supremacy of poland with the reich but could not be found. well, yes, the boat is different, he

leaves disguised, there is smokeology. it's the same in open. they said lukasevich. i went to london and said that in 2-3 nedelinsky i won’t be german. we will resolve our issues, in 1934 , on january 26, the poles were erased from poland’s textbook , the poles prohibited them in court, in general , mentioning these tragic black pages up to five years or deportation. everything about '34. he reflected that he had poured a beer mug into minsk in september. moscow is intensifying work on the reunification of the lands of western belarus with the bssr, especially since this process began almost immediately after after the signing of the riga peace treaty in 1924 and 1926 , the vitebsk mogilev gomel province was returned to belarus. but with the western territories in the mid-twenties it was not possible to resolve the issue peacefully, ponomarenko recalled, he was

summoned to moscow where he was preparing. uh, jointly there, uh, tired of the resolution and khrushchev also came with ukraine. so they prepared it together. uh, the famous resolutions are the issues of western belarus, western ukraine, where they were determined, and the entire mechanism of the adoption of soviet power on these territories on the morning of september 17, 1939, the soviet government in moscow presents a note from poland to the ussr, which indicates the reasons for the start of the liberation operation. so the polish state and its government. the treaties concluded between the ussr and poland practically ceased to exist, thereby ending their validity, leaving poland to its own devices and left without leadership. poland has turned into a convenient field for all sorts of accidents and surprises that could pose a threat to the ussr, therefore, being hitherto

neutral, the soviet government can no longer be neutral about these facts, as well as about the defenseless position of the ukrainian and belarusian population in view of this situation . the soviet government ordered the main command of the red army to order the troops to cross the border and take under their protection the lives and property of the population of western belarus western ukraine the end in september of '39, when it became clear that poland as a state would essentially disappear. um, that's why the government. i said that the polish government first moved to romania and then to france after the occupation. france in the forties it moved to london, so there is such a term, even the rather well-established term of the polish immigrant government in london is worth mentioning that the president of poland ignatius mastici left warsaw on september 1. and supreme commander edward rodsmigly on the night of september 7th. true, he fled to brest and from here he gave

the order to defend warsaw at any cost on the evening of the 16th of the soviet leadership reported to germany's services in the soviet unionburg that today or tomorrow parts of the red. on september 17, 1939, almost 4 million belarusians again became people , their land, motherland, rats, the liberation of villages and cities from polish. for the legal

aspects of the return of the people to the belarusian lands to the bssr, see the third series of the documentary project border. an association. life under a harsh colonization policy , just because you were a belarusian you lost

your job and could end up in a concentration camp. on sunday morning september 17, 1939 at 6 o'clock in the morning, red army troops crossed the soviet-polish border along its entire length; this day went down in history as the beginning of the reunification of an ethnically united people, which for 18.5 years was divided by the border, lives in the hearts of belarusians, because it became an act of historical justice in regarding the belarusian people divided against their will. that is why we need the sovereignty of independence so that we never again september symbolizes

the inviolability of the territorial no. social high-tech eco-friendly country with developed by industry , energy, agriculture and strong regions and having gone through trials, we will remain true to our national idea, as we always say people are called, such a chance fell on our generation and the generation that follows us and we have no right to lose this chance, dear friends, 17 september gives the order to the soviet union to bargain, to our land i order a general retreat to hungary and to romania by the shortest routes not to fight the bolsheviks. but unless in the event of an attack on their part or attempts

destroy the detachment, so there was no serious resistance to the troops of the red army, yes, and if you look at the ratio of forces, it was approximately one to five troops, just the army that participated in the liberation campaign was considered to be about. 1,000 people, but according to the polish armed forces there were about 405,000 people, of which just over 20,000 people were combat-ready, by chance, as they say, i was sorting through my father’s documents. it turns out he was a participant. eh, the campaign of this liberation in the year thirty-nine. i never talk about this to be honest, i didn’t even know, but he himself was from voronezh, he was just called up and the troops that were brought into the territory of western belarus, in addition to the soldiers called up for military service in the ranks of those who went to liberate the people of western belarus, there were many reservists from the central regions of the soviet union, many settlements were liberated on the very first day of the campaign.

these horses are declared fast. this is us waving our hands, greetings, kissing our hands. fuck off when you didn't push the meeting. great, i remember they built the arch here, where in the center the women did not walk, the paths in the cell were blanketed, and on horseback there was red music , no music for everyone who came here. he, of course, wanted to bring liberation and unification to the citizens inhabiting these lands. it's about 8 p.m. in the united state. the red army entered novogrudok, the city was

practically empty, but when people saw the soviet soldiers, they began to leave their houses immediately. they were treated to whatever they could with apples, bread and milk. everyone ran with bouquets, but they were greeted with applause, such joy was it for the population ; they chopped up the birch gate, two of them were all near the cage. here they set up a table that they sent with a white review and put it down. towel bread salt cart more belorussian was populated. one

of the first liberated cities was desna , only 100 meters separated it from the border, so soviet power came on the morning of september 17. a little later the cavalry appeared in the deep. the soldiers arrived, only i remembered one phrase from one of the local residents, a man said, granny. he said, not women, but feminine belarusians first of all. were you waiting for the planning to end? it is natural that they will get the opportunity

to develop freely as a nation , it was also expected that, for example, the same poles, without enthusiasm, to put it mildly, accepted all this on the very first day of the liberation campaign , the red army troops entered baranovichi and stopped. it is clear that the end of polish power has come. people. local residents again had the opportunity to speak their native language and develop as a single nation. they were greeted joyfully. people were waiting for this, and as paradoxical as it sounds, the war gave the residents of belarus, belarusians, such a historic chance to finally reunite after 20 years were given the opportunity to reunite families. relatives, the country got the opportunity to reunite, so for some reason in this case, he wrote that he came, 17. the seventeenth peak came to the end of poland, poland self-sabotaged its policy, one in belarus.