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Minsk captured by German troops
Belarusian culture started to flourish because German administration allowed schools with Belarusian language, previously banned in Russia -
Soviet troops occupied Minsk
Germans no longer control Belarus -
Minsk is re-captured by the Soviet Red Army from poland
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The great Purge Begins
a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin. almost all prominent Belarusian national intelligentsia were executed -
The Great Purge Ends
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Soviet Union invades Poland
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Germany and its Axis allies invaded the Soviet Union
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jews fight back in Lakhva
One of the first uprisings of a Jewish ghetto against the Nazis -
the Chernobyl disaster
occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine situated close to the border with Belarus -
Belarus declares its national sovereignty
thia ia a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union -
The BSSR was formally renamed the Republic of Belarus
This mad e Belarus's indipendence official to its citizins.