The Poles in Historical Bukovina during the Communist Period 1944-1989
The Poles in Historical Bukovina during the Communist Period 1944-1989

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses synthetically the Polish community from the South of historical Bucovina during the communist period being supported by archive sources, studies, books and oral testimonies collected from the old persons belonging to the Polish community. Between 1939-1944, the Poles from Bucovina involved directly in helping the British and Romanian spy services accomplishing services of reconnaisance and of courier collaborating with the Romanian authorities in the field - one of the well-known cases being that of Maria Lesiecka. The end of the second world war caused significant mutations in the space of Central-Eastern Europe founded on the grounds of the Churchill - Stalin fatal agreement from October 13, 1944, determining after that the setting up of the Iron Curtain and the whole suite of measures associated with a totalitarian political system of a communist essence.

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