Complaints of military men and their families as a reflection of the Soviet social policy during the Great Patriotic War (based on materials of the Tyumen region)
The article talks about Soviet social policy towards military men and their families during the Great Patriotic War. The territorial scope of the study was limited to the districts of the Omsk region, which became part of the Tyumen region in August 14, 1944. Complaints, which were filed in the state archives of Tyumen served as a source of information. Their authors were military men and their families who lived in this territory or arrived as a result of evacuation. In particular, considerable attention was paid to appeals written by citizens who came from Leningrad and the Leningrad region. The author of the article carried out typology of the above mentioned materials on the nature of the content. In a number of cases, record keeping documentation of district committees (raikom), city committees (gorkom), regional committees (obkom) of the C.P.S.U.(b.) and the Department of the state support and everyday guaranteeing of the families of military men during the Great Patriotic War were used to describe the “response”?. Together, these materials allow to correlate the decisions of central authorities and their implementation on the ground. The author comes to the conclusion that the provisions of the current regulatory and legal acts have not always been implemented by the executive authorities as discussed in the complaints of citizens. In most cases, complaints were due to the difficult living conditions of the population. At the same time, the active appeal of citizens to state and party bodies testify the trust in the authorities, which acted in the image of “benefactor and defender”.