Elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia
Elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, which took place on 22 October 1939, were an attempt to legitimize the annexation of the Second Polish Republic's eastern territories by the Soviet Union following the 17 September Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Only one month after these lands were occupied by the Red Army, the Soviet secret police and military led by the Party officials staged the local elections in an atmosphere of state terror.