The husband of Matrona Markevich was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda and executed during Soviet repression in Belarus in 1937 , after which the family was dekulakised . The original '' ruchnik '' has not survived and was either confiscated by the NKVD in 1937 or destroyed during the Second World War . The brother of Matrona Markevich , Mikhail Katsar , head of the ethnography and folklore department at the Academy of Sciences of Belarus , was included into the commission that was ordered to create a new flag for the Belarusian SSR in 1951
dekulakised
Dekulakization
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