a symptom of equal treatment of all citizens. In fact, however, all that served another important purpose: it made it impossible for the people [25] forced to live, work, and build together to become close. And it was characteristic of the Soviet regime. That symptom was transferred to the seized territories, as it was constantly practiced in the USSR.
Consequently, the individual practises, such as forcing people to take positions in villages after graduation, the introduction of fees and the cancellation of stipends for everybody, combined with other features, made the younger generation, who initially embraced Bolshevism with all their heart and soul, partially to lose their enthusiasm. Even though in conversations with opponents of Bolshevism or with the older generation it justified all moves of the government, the opinions within that group began to clash. Of course, when I talk about the young I mean all of them as a whole, but it does not mean that there was a shortage of ideological factions, which opposed Bolshevism, but that [26] will be discussed in the section on political life.
ARG I 868b (Ring. I/75)
Description: original, handwritten (OO*), 4 notebooks, ink, Polish, 155x195 mm, 123 sheets, 119 pages
See also doc. 33.
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Early 1942, Warsaw, ghetto. “טײַז ענעי ןופֿ” [“From the other side”] Account of a refugee, on situation of the Jewish population under the Soviet occupation and the first weeks of the German occupation in Kovel and Lvov801
[1] From the other side (obtained from migrants)
St[anisław] Aau. is no more than 20 years old. He is the son of teachers (both his father and his mother taught in state schools). He was raised in a middle-class environment. In 1938 he should have graduated from a state secondary school,
