ANTI-SOVIET LEAFLETS IN THE SVERDLOVSK REGION IN THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
In the first months of World War II showed inconsistency created in the USSR totalitarian system. This system is focused on the future conduct of an offensive war, and demanded from the Soviet people the maximum limits in all areas of their lives. One of the manifestations of discontent of the Soviet people and the progress of hostilities exist heavy material and living conditions is the emergence of a variety of anonymous leaflets and documents anti-Soviet. Already in the first months of World War II in a number of places of Sverdlovsk region were found anti-Soviet leaflets. The authors called on the people to overthrow the existing regime through armed insurrection. The manuscript contains information about the authors of these leaflets and their destinies. Of particular interest are the cases of repeated occurrence of the anti-Soviet leaflets in one area of the regional center. Characterized in detail the results of the investigation of the case, contains data on the rehabilitation of the convicted person for him colonel of the Red Army. For the first time in the historiography of the case study of anti-Soviet youth organization “Union of free republics” that existed in Lower Salda, Sverdlovsk Region. Characterized by the composition of the participants of the organization and results of operative and investigative activities in the case. The data archive of FSB in the Sverdlovsk region on the total number registered in the Sverdlovsk region of anti-Soviet leaflets, the number of instances that were found and the number of identified authors. In general, the materials presented in the paper suggests that the existing historiography of the conclusions that in the years of the Great Patriotic War was the Ural reference edge power, and its workers, “a reference edge power” despite all the hardships, “... showing remarkable patience and simplicity, perform their patriotic duty”, need to be clarified. Judging by the content of the manuscript driven, real life was much more diverse firmly established in the scientific and scientific-popular literature stamps.