saratov region, where there are still 43 people, penza region - 26, gorky and chkalovsk region 28 people, we ask you to instruct the regional party committees to expedite sending agricultural specialists to our disposal . but there were no complaints, people worked selflessly, in the hope of reviving the village and helping the army and the country. the republic was elevated by the heroism of the people, as kirill mazurov, later the first secretary of the central committee of the party of the republic, recalled about this period. the leadership did everything to support the peasants in those difficult conditions. measures various, loans for farms, subsidies from the center, special attention to peasants in western belarus. before germany attacked the soviet union. the specifics of the region were taken into account, with priority given to private farming. but a characteristic feature of the restoration of agriculture in the western regions is that they did not begin to force collectivization there. collectivization already began somewhere towards the end of the forties. this was special.