Sztandar Wolności

Sztandar Wolności (The Banner of Freedom), was a Polish language newspaper published by the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Byelorussia in the city of Minsk, between October 1940 and June 1941. The paper existed only for one year following the Soviet invasion of Poland and the annexation of Kresy into Byelorussian SSR. Sztandar Wolności shut down during subsequent German attack known as Operation Barbarossa.

The editorial staff was composed of Belarusians as well as prewar communists from Poland who chose to collaborate with the Soviets against the Second Polish Republic. They included Jakub Berman and Janina Broniewska. Meanwhile, all press published by Poland was dismantled and banned by the Red Army Directive # 1 of 16 September 1939, and the Polish paper stock forcibly requisitioned.