Reflections on the General Elections Organized by the Soviets in Bessarabia at the Beginning of 1941. Cover Image
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Considerații privind alegerile generale organizate de sovietici în Basarabia la & începutul anului 1941
Reflections on the General Elections Organized by the Soviets in Bessarabia at the Beginning of 1941.

Author(s): Vitalie Văratec
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, Electoral systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania; Bessarabia; 1941; Soviet Union; general elections;

Summary/Abstract: The military occupation of Bessarabia in June 1940. by the USSR was the beginning of the process of communist sovietization of this Romanian province. The Bessarabian Romanians would suffer the agony of political terror, deportation, denationalization, the indoctrination of communist ideology. The political administration set up by Moscow started with the extermination of the Romanian population on the left bank of the Prut river. The electoral campaign and the spurious elections of 12 January 1941 stand proof of the antidemocratic character of the regime established in Bessarabia and its methods of implementing the totalitarian policy. The vote was a political farce, conceived and staged in the true Bolshevik style, designed to enthrone the Soviet system in the Romanian province.

  • Issue Year: III/1995
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 8-15
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian