Social support for disabled veterans and families of military personnel in 1941-1945 (based on the materials of the Kalinin region)
The article examines for the first time various forms of assistance that war invalids and family members of military personnel received from the state, labor collectives, and the public during the Great Patriotic War, based on the materials of the Kalinin (now Tver) region. The data on the number of disabled veterans of the Patriotic War, families of military personnel registered in the region, the amount of payments in the form of pensions and allowances are given. The article analyzes the difficulties manifested in the employment and retraining of former front-line soldiers, providing housing for their families. Shown are the shortcomings in the work of state bodies engaged in social security of these social groups - bureaucracy, abuse, incompetence and indifference of officials. Among the reasons for such phenomena is an acute shortage of material and human resources. According to the author, the measures of social protection taken during the war years made it possible to solve some of the material and household problems of war invalids and families of military personnel, but it was impossible to fully and timely fulfill the task of social security in the conditions of the frontline region. The publication is based on documents from the Tver archives.