High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, which took place on October 22, 1939, were an attempt to legitimate territorial gains of the Soviet Union, at the expense of the Second Polish Republic. Following the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, eastern territories of Poland were occupied by the Red Army in September 1939 (see: Soviet invasion of Poland). The elections took place in an atmosphere of state terror, they were rigged, and their result was to become the official legitimization of Soviet annexation of West Belarus and Western Ukraine. Consequently, both Assemblies voted for incorporation of both provinces into the Soviet Union. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по...