NOTE ALE SERVICIULUI SPECIAL DE INFORMAȚII CU REFERIRE LA SCHIMBĂRILE DIN BASARABIA DUPĂ OCUPAREA DE URSS ÎN 1940
NOTES OF THE SPECIAL INFORMATION SERVICE REGARDING THE CHANGES IN BESSARABIA AFTER THE OCCUPATION OF THE USSR IN 1940
Author(s): Radu StefănițăSubject(s): Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: Special Intelligence Service; note; Bessarabia; Moldovan R.A.S.S.; communication; dissatisfaction;
Summary/Abstract: Bessarabia became forcibly communist. Territorial, administrative and economic organization sought to de-nationalize, to eliminate the Romanian’s identity and to quickly and arbitrary integration into the Soviet State. The Special Service of Information knew the tools and the methods used by the USSR in all occupied territories and in 1941 informed the decision making agencies like the Presidency of the Council of Ministries. The notes provided information to Romanian State about the impact of those measures on population and the general state of social unsatisfactory concerning the Soviets misbehave. In fact, the information provided by the Romanian Intelligence Service was anticipating a growing in coercion which was confirmed after the liberation of Bessarabia in the second half of 1941 and the discovery of the criminal apparatus that functioned during the year of Bolshevik occupation.
Journal: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 62-73
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Romanian