Social Security for Families of Military Personnel in the Early Years of the Great Patriotic War: Historical and Legal Aspects

The relevance. Social protection and state support of the families of those persons who defended the Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, acted as an integral part of the general state policy of the USSR. The procedure for state support of the families of military personnel was provided a number of other legal documents. At the same time, the amount of benefits to families of military personnel was determined depending on the number of family members who are not able to work, place of residence in urban or rural areas, and other factors. A detailed analysis of the provisions of documents regulating the issues of social security for families of military personnel complements the existing research on this topic.
The purpose is to analyze the order of organizing social security for families of military personnel in the first years of the Great Patriotic War.
Objectives: through the legal acts of the Soviet state to characterize the position of the Soviet government on the issues of providing for the families of military personnel mobilized to the front. Consider the activities of the bodies of Soviet power to provide families of servicemen with pensions, allowances and other benefits. Show the financial expenses of the Soviet government for the implementation of social tasks in relation to the families of military personnel.
Methodology. The work used the methods of analysis, synthesis, as well as such a particular scientific method as the historical-logical method.
Results. On the basis of legal acts of the Soviet state adopted in the early years of the Great Patriotic War, as well as archival documents, the article shows the mechanism for organizing social security for the families of military personnel, as well as the problems that Soviet authorities faced at the beginning and early years of the Great Patriotic War.
Conclusion. The author formulates the conclusion that, despite the existing difficulties and shortcomings in social security for the families of military personnel, the Soviet state took certain steps to address the issues of organizing such security.

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