Strategia sovietică în formarea intelectualităţii noi a R.S.S. Moldovenească în anii 1944-1951
The Emergence of the new R.S.S. of Moldavia between 1944-1951. The Sovietic Strategy

Summary/Abstract: After the year 1945, we find Kishniev being suddenly imposed as university centre. The overwhelming number of superior institutions that appeared right after the war, in a society depopulated by famine and deportation, also severely lacking middle school, justified significant enlisting of young people from other republics of the U.S.S.R. in Kishniev’s faculties. The foreign element owned the highest percentage in the overall number of teachers too. The heaviest consequence of this policy (which eventually led to massive emigration of the Slavic element in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Moldavia) was the successive transformation of the demographic balance in the detriment of native population. The thesis of the emigrants, by which “the prestigious Russian experts had saved Bessarabia in hard times”, is clearly false, because neither the teachers, nor the foreign students corresponded to the exigencies of universitary discipline. Their establishment in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Moldavia had more the character of an invasion conducted by the Ministry of University Education of U.S.S.R. and the one in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Moldavia At the same time, the native youth was forced to pay taxes for the right to get higher education. In the ministry of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Moldavia in 1948, there worked 16 Moldavians and 50 foreigners. We must note that the nomenclature of this ministry included first of all school inspectors, middle school and orphanage directors, accountants of superior institutions etc., while the teaching staff was hold in reserve, because of their non-adherence to the politics of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The battle for preservation of national identity was impossible to imagine after the destruction of early intellectual elite. The new intellectual class raised doctors, teachers, librarians, public administrators etc., but severely repelled the older categories such as priests, nobles, military men or engineers. The highest education of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Moldavia was in this period a servant of communist interests in the area to form new, secularized intellectuals that followed an ideology of anti-Romanian spirit and bowed to the power of the occupant.

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