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Polish National Districts were national districts of the Soviet Union in the interbellum period providing national autonomy for Polish minorities in the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Rep
The People's House in Kojdanów, capital of the Dzierżyńszczyzna, in 1932
Felix Dzerzhinsky
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Byelorussian SSR, Byelorussia, or simply Belarus, was a communist state from 1920 to 1922 and then one of fifteen constituent republics of
Polish National District
…raions") were national districts of the Soviet Union in the interbellum period providing national autonomy for Polish minorities in the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics of the USSR. They were created in an attempt to live up to the postulate of Leninism about the rights of nations for…
A 2019 stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the BSSR
BSSR between the two World Wars
Minsk Railway Station (1926), with the city's name given in Belarusian, Russian, Polish and Yiddish (or interwar Belarus's 4 official languages)
Belarus-born Andrei Gromyko (right) served as Soviet foreign minister (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988)