Armata sovietică în România și instalarea noilor autorități după 23 august 1944
The Soviet Army in Romania and the Coming into Power of the New Authorities after 23 August 1944

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author presents some of the interference forms of the Soviet military' authorities, stationed on the Romanian territory, which supported the local communists in their fight for power. In northern Moldova, in the spring of 1944, and then in autumn, in northern Transylvania, where the Russians had complete control over the territories, they changed the leaders of the county and the communal administrative institutions, and imposed the institution of internal order organizations meant to replace those dependent on the Romanian government. These bodies, not only executed docilely the orders given by the Russians, but they actually supported the Romanian communists who lacked mass support. In parallel, sometimes, the Russian military bodies illegally and directly involved themselves in the replacement of the civil servants with persons who lacked the population credit. The article is inspired from documents preserved in the central (Bucharest) and regional archives (Jassy, Galafi, Oradea), the bulk of the information coming from the find of the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie.

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