82 year since the first Soviet deportations of Romanians from Bessarabia

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Today marks the 81st anniversary of the first wave of deportations from Bessarabia. On the night of June 12-13, 1941, according to some sources, more than 20,000 people were loaded into wagons and sent to Siberia.

In the first wave, almost 29,839 Romanians were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan. The second wave took place on June 6-7, 1949 and deported 35,796 people, two-thirds of whom were women and children. The last wave was on April 1, 1951, targeting 5,917 members of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Among the victims was Anița Nandriș-Cudla (photo above). She was separated from her husband and sick mother and deported with her three children near the Arctic Circle. In her book this peasant woman retells how her and her children survived starvation, disease, cold, persecution and exhausting labor.

The political bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR was in charge of organizing the deportation, and the NKVD structures were the logistical basis of the deportation mechanism. 1, 2

Lesson nr. 45 on Moscow's imperialism in Eastern Europe @Gov Hooka