Galchak S. "Ostarbaiter" from Podilla (1942-1947)

The object of study - the conditions of life and activity of the population of Podilla, deported during the Second world war on territory of the Third Reich and repatriated in USSR after rout of Nazi Germany. The purpose of study is to study historical destiny "ostarbaiter" from Podilla, deported by the Nazi and returned home in the post-war time. The methods used in the research are: historical, scientific objectivity, integrated approach, systems. In the dissertation on the wide range of different sources there are investigated the policy and practical actions of Nazi occupation regime on forced mobilization of the human resources of the region, discrimination, robbery, living conditions, hard labour of "Ostarbaiter" from Podilla in military industry and agriculture of the Reich, as well as the exploitation of the labour resources of Podilla by the Romanian occupation administration, the resistance of the Podolyans to the Nazi plans to enslave the population of the captured territories in the ranksof the Soviet underground, partisans, national-liberation forces, European movement of Resistance. The mechanism of repatriation and also the attitude of Party and State leadership of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR to repatriants, their life in the post-war Soviet Union are analyzed.