The article continues to study the complicated issue of forced migrations in the period of war of 1941-1945. Special attention is paid to the return of spetspereselenetsy (pl.), (special settler, a person deported by the Soviet government and obliged to live in a given locality under supervision of the Ministry of Internal affairs (NKVD, later MVD), and the «planned settlers» to their former places of residence until the 1940s. The article is based on the intersection of history, sociology, and psychology. The focus of the research has been on the deportees, who were transported against their own will according to the so called «planned resettlement» leaving their homes and settling in the territory of residence of the repressed peoples by entire collective farms. As the research showed the fate of both categories of people remained hard because of the ongoing war, economic difficulties, labour shortage for the restoration of the ruined economic sector, broken pre-war ties between the regions of the country. The restoration of historical justice played a positive role and gave some hope to people for a new life. Afterwards under difficult circumstances both former special settlers, and «planned settlers», had to build their homes again, to restore economy, to revive the culture. At the same time the new system of ethnic relations was being formed.

В предлагаемой статье продолжено исследование сложной темы исторической науки принудительных переселений народов в период войны 1941-1945 гг. Особое внимание при этом уделено возвращению спецпереселенцев и «плановых переселенцев» в районы их прежнего проживания до 1940-х годов. Предстояло в трудных условиях обустраивать в очередной раз свое жилье, восстанавливать хозяйство, возрождать культуру. Одновременно формировалась и система новых межэтнических отношений.