Danubius International Conferences, 5th International Conference The Danube - Axis of European Identity
The Bessarabian Refugees’ Testimonies about the Establishment of the Soviet Occupation of Bessarabia (June-August, 1940)
Last modified: 2015-05-15
Abstract
The abusive occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union was a fatal consequence of the nonaggression pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop) between the two totalitarian regions, and namely the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany.
In the early days of the Soviet occupation, a mass evacuation process of the Bessarabians to Romania was held.
Based on the study of the documents from the Galați County Directorate of State Archives related to this phenomenon, the author elucidated the process of the Soviet occupation establishment in its initial phase, and namely: the liquidation of the administrative national system, the persecution of the civil servants who worked in the Romanian administrative institutions and forced imposition of the new administrative structures and institutions.
