World War II: keep it a history (Poland) | Page 9

someone didn't follow the rules, he was threatened with a punishment. When an air raid was close, they raised the alarm and everybody should have hidden, as soon as possible, in the basement preferably. Life of Poles under the Soviet occupation On the occupied lands, the Soviet authorities acted under false slogans concerning taking away the fields from farmers, the factories from their owners and connecting of occupied land to right republics of the USSR. The population of Polish and other nationalities had to vote for the members of the Bolshevik party designated in advance, who had nothing in common with those areas. The vote was conducted in the atmosphere of terror and mass arrests. On these areas Russian citizenship was granted to the population. Many people from eastern Poland were