The Union of Bessarabia with Romania in the Cultural Propaganda System of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (1960–1970)
The Union of Bessarabia with Romania in the Cultural Propaganda System of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (1960–1970)

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the ideological myths created by the new regime set up after 1940–1944 in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR), meant to justify the domination over the tsarist and then Soviet territory between the Prut and the Dniester rivers. The communist propaganda was concerned with outlining a scenario under which “Bessarabia’s invasion” by the Kingdom of Romania had allegedly been a first act of foreign “aggression” against a territory of Soviet Russia, where the power of the “workers and peasants” had already taken hold. Therefore, the “liberation” of 1940 was a “triumph of historical truth” and “a restoration of righteousness.” Also, the “Moldovan people” were offered a celebration of Soviet origin designed to integrate them alongside the other peoples of the Soviet Union, and first and foremost alongside the Russian people, the artisans of the “Great October.”

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