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«Квартирный вопрос» в Западной Белоруссии и еврейское население, 1939-1940 гг.
The article deals with the Soviet housing policy in the annexed in September 1939 the former Polish territories – Western Belarus and Western Ukraine. However, the author's attention is more focused on the Western Belarus and, in particular, on Bialystok, which was the largest and most economically developed city in the region. In Bialystok and the Bialystok area there were the largest number of refugees, soviet soldiers, party clerks and technical specialists from the Soviet Union. This situation has provoked here the acute housing problems, which resulted in the theft of property and illegal apartment owners eviction. The Jewish population of Western Belarus was in the epicenter of events, since the Jews were well represented among the refugees, and among the illegally evicted houses owners. The author seeks to analyze the housing policy in Western Belarus prior to the start of the German-Soviet war in 1941, the position of the Jewish population during this period, and the impact of acute "housing problem" on the Sovietization of the entire local population.