On July 21, 1944, the People's Congress of the Polish Workers' Party and the Polish Socialist Party established the first Polish Workers' and Peasants' Government - the Polish National Liberation Commission. On July 22, it declared in the first liberated city of Helm, by a declaration - to establish the program of the People's Democracy of the People's Republic, and announced: the state power was transferred to the people's hands represented by the National Liberation Committee; with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia formed an alliance to expel the German occupants; to guarantee the people's speech, belief, and freedom of association; to punish for fascist crimes, to confiscate the property of the German occupants; to exercise land, reform, mining, and nationalization of banks. Later