Deportation of Romanians in the Soviet Union

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Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Birth in a prison car for Bessarabian deportees
Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Birth in a prison car for Bessarabian deportees

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

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[edit] 1941

On June 12–13, 1941, 29,839 members of families of "counterrevolutionaries and nationalists" from Moldavian SSR, and from Chernivtsi and Izmail oblasts of Ukrainian SSR were deported to Kazakhstan, Komi ASSR, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk, Novosibirsk oblasts. For the fate of a deportee from Bessarabia with this lot, see the example of Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya.

[edit] 1942

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany, together with several other countries, including Romania, attacked the Soviet Union (see Operation Barbarossa). After the start of the war, further mass deportations occurred in the USSR. In April 1942, Romanians and some other nationalities were deported from Crimea and the North Caucasus. In June 1942, Romanians and others were deported from Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast.

[edit] Romanian POWs in the Soviet Union

Starting in 1943, 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, in Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, in Vorkuta, in Norilsk, and in other places. For the fate of a POW from Bessarabia, see the example of Velentin Şerban. For the fate of a POW from Romania, see the example of Johann Urwich.

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 more remained in labor camps. Most of Romanian POW were freed in 1956. Some were arrested again by Communist Romanian authorities on their arrival in Romania "for waging war on the Soviet Union".

[edit] 1949

35,796 people from Moldavian SSR were detained on 6 July 1949, and deported on similar ground to those in 1941. In addition, the deportation also occurred in Chernivtsi and Izmail oblasts of Ukrainian SSR.

[edit] 1951

2,617 people from Moldavian SSR were detained on 1 April 1951, and deported on similar ground to those in 1941 and 1949. In addition, the deportation also occurred in Chernivtsi and Izmail oblasts of Ukrainian SSR.

[edit] See also

[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)

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