The Departure of Slavic and Armenian Ethnics from Romania for the USSR, 1944-1948 Cover Image
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Plecarea minoritarilor slavi și armeni din România în U.R.S.S. 1944-1948
The Departure of Slavic and Armenian Ethnics from Romania for the USSR, 1944-1948

Author(s): Dumitru Șandru
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Political history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism, Migration Studies
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania; USSR; 40s; Slavs; Armenians;

Summary/Abstract: Over 1944-1948 many Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Tartars who had become Soviet citizens under the March 8, 1941 decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR sought refuge in Romania, across the Prut river, and the Russian military commands rounded up the inhabitants having come from Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and the USSR to settle down in the territory of the Romanian state. Besides this, the period was marked by the voluntary departure for the Soviet Union of a number of Lippovans, Rutenians and Armenians from different parts of the country who were Romanian citizens.

  • Issue Year: IX/2001
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 38-45
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian