World War II in the post-war fate of its participants and contemporary people (using the example of agricultural workers)

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to investigate, using the example of agricultural workers, the impact of the war
and captivity in German imprisonment on their subsequent professional lives and future destinies.
Scientific novelty. To show that when nominating for managerial and administrative positions of any level in the
managerial or material sphere of the industry, it was mandatory to take into account this fact of their biography and that
of their closest relatives. It was found that this was the main argument for removing them from a managerial position or not
appointing them to it. The position of law enforcement agencies towards such people is revealed. It is found that the specified
fact of their biography was considered by the institution as an additional factor for their criminal actions. The position towards
this category of employees of party structures of the republic at the regional and district levels and the ministries of agriculture
of Ukraine and the USSR is investigated. Its identity is proven. It was revealed that: 1) at the local level there was such a feature
as the intertwining of state policy with the consolidation of personal relationships. 2) in the mid — 1950s. the actions of local
party leaders acquired such a scale that they negatively affected the course initiated by the leader of the All-Union Communist
Party (Bolsheviks) M. Khrushchev to strengthen the cadres of collective farm heads with agricultural specialists.
The situation was also studied in areas related to the training of personnel for the village. Both in teaching and student
groups. The relevant authorities identified such people and the institution got rid of them. The situation with the acquisition of
education by village children was considered. It was shown that due to significant losses of the male population of the village,
significant masses of families were incomplete and a lot of children were forced to leave school and go to work. It is emphasized
that the rural youth of the post-war period, in their majority, remained largely uneducated. It is emphasized that the majority of
those whose childhood and youth fell on the period of wars, were unable to realize their educational potential and were forced
to limit themselves to the sphere of physical labor.
Conclusions The war did not cease to influence the fate of those who were forcibly in the occupied territory or were
forcibly taken out for forced labor even after it ended. Even in such a sphere as agriculture, there was a prejudiced attitude on
the part of state, economic, law enforcement and party structures towards people who, precisely because of the fault of the authorities, ended up in German occupation, captivity, and forced labor. It manifested itself in discrimination against them in the creative, professional, moral and psychological terms, and political persecution. The authorities in every possible way limited their opportunities for education and professional growth. In the village itself, exploiting its economic and human potential, it limited the opportunities of the bulk of an entire generation of rural children to acquire a proper education, preserving the low educational level of the village for decades, and thereby reducing their choice only to the range of working specialties in collective farm production and industrial enterprises in cities.