# The Export of the Wealth of Western Belarus

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/export-of-the-wealth-of-western-belarus/
- Published: 1924-06-13T18:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:00:17+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/vyvoz-bahaccia-zachodniaje-bielarusi.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/vyvoz-bogatstv-zapadnoy-byelarusi.md

> The Minister of Railways has promised the timber industrialists cheaper carriage of wood from the Vilnia region, and this will lead to our forests being felled even faster.

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The Minister of Railways has declared to the delegates of the union of timber industrialists that, in order to increase the export of timber from the Vilnia region, the charge for carrying timber materials by rail will be reduced. Thus the plundering economy in our forests, which had come to a halt, will again move along at a quicker pace…