Deportation of Romanians in the Soviet Union

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The Deportation of Romanians in the USSR was part of Stalin's policy to cleanse the borders of the USSR of "foreign nationals" ("инонациональностей")^[1]. The deported were typically moved to the so-called "special settlements" (спецпоселения) (see Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union).

On June 12-13, 1941, days before the German attack on the Soviet Union, the deportation of 30,000 of members of families of "counterrevolutionaries and nationalists" from Chernivtsi and Izmail oblasts of Ukraine and from Moldavian SSR to Kazakhstan, Komi ASSR, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts was performed.

During the war, since Romania sided with Nazi Germany, further deportations occurred. In April 1942 Romanians, together with some other nationalities were deported from Crimea and North Caucasus. In June 1942 Romanians and some other nationalities were deported from Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast. For the fate of a deportee from Bessarabia see Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya.

[edit] Romanian POWs in Soviet Union

Since the second half the war, a significant number of Romanian POWs worked in various labor camps over the whole territory of the Soviet Union. For example, 6,740 Romanians worked in the Spassky camp of Karlag, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR.

An April 1946 report to Vyacheslav Molotov (see the wikisource reference) stated that in 1945, 61,662 Romanian POWs were repatriated, 20,411 took part in forming Romanian volunteer divisions, and about 50,000 were in labor camps.

[edit] References

1. ^ Polyan, Pavel, Not by Their Own Will, Section "Пограничные зачистки и другие принудительные миграции в 1934–1939 гг." (Border cleansing ad other forced migrations of 1934-1939)

• Victor Bârsan, Masacrul inocenţilor, Bucharest, 1993, pg.18-19