Talk:Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

message: Thousands were mobilized into work camps (but at least they were formally, although very little, paid), and sent far away through the Soviet Union. In 1940 alone there were 56,365 such.
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Partially removed in that edit, but what was kept is no longer in the current article:
Although, not targeting Romanians as an ethnic group, but rather the pre-Soviet civil society as a political class, the Soviet occupation resulted in an anti-Romanian Soviet politicide and ethnic cleansing of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Between 1940 and 1941, 300,000 Romanians were persecuted, conscripted into forced labor camps, or deported with the entire family, of whom 57,000 were killed (not counting those died in the Gulag).R. J. Rummel, Table 6.A. 5,104,000 victims during the pre-World War II period: sources, calculations and estimates, Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War, University of Hawaii. These policies also continued from 1944 until 1956, after which they were reduced to isolated cases.
According to some sources, in total throughout the duration of the USSR, around 2,344,000 people originally from Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and the former Moldavian ASSR were victims of arrests, political persecution, deportation, forced labour, of whom 703,000 perished.R. J. Rummel, Table 7.A. 13,053,000 victims during World War II: sources, calculations and estimates, op.cit.R. J. Rummel, Table 8.A. 15,6133,000 victims during the Postwar and Stalin's twilight period: Soviet murder: sources, calculations and estimates, op.cit. The latter number includes the 298,500 victims of the 1946-47 famine, and an estimation of 100,000 of perished POWs which were locals. The remainder are victims of executions, massacres, arrested perished in Gulag, and deportees died.
These policies mostly targeted the elites of Bessarabians and Bukovinains which did not leave for Romania in 1940 and 1944–1945, including former teachers, doctors, clergymen, lawyers, policemen and soldiers, larger landowners (nobility and richer peasants, called by the Soviets kulaks), members of political parties (including former members of the clandestine Communist Party of Romania), as well as those who expressed any kind of dissent, which altogether constituted a significant part of the population and included the majority of the educated population, the bearers of Romanian culture. However, they were by no means restricted to ethnic Romanians, as many thousand ethnic Ukrainians, Russians, Jews who inhabited the region before 1940 were also deported en masse together with local Romanians on social and political grounds. Only in northern Bukovina, the persecutions resulted in a disproportionate number of ethnic Romanian victims. However, this could be also explained by the social nature of villages in the region, which rejected Soviet social tactics, and by local Ukrainians keeping a low profile to avoid themselves persecution.
A large block of direct quotes, "Excerpts from Soviet-Nazi diplomatic exchanges on 23–27 June 1940" were removed. "expects the German Reich Government at the same time urgently to advise the Rumanian Government in Bucharest to comply with the Soviet demands, since war would otherwise be unavoidable." This is interesting in relation to the negotiations for the Soviet Union to join the Axis powers. This quote makes it seem that it was the Soviet Union, not Germany or Italy, who came up with the reason "in order to avoid war". In fact war did happen, and Machiavelli advised that... "The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage."
This article currently says that the Soviet Union said (source is in Romanian) "the international situation that was created requires the rapid solution of the items inherited from the past, in order to fix the basis of a solid peace between countries". "international situation" could mean "Germany is at war with the UK", yet if the Soviet Union was willing to go to war with Romania it could conceivably do so with Germany in the future, even if it only happened after various political leaders died. War didn't guarantee that Germany would become stronger, but maybe due to luck, France lost and so Germany did. The UK's navy could enforce a blockade, but could not conquer Germany, so it was reasonable to think defeating the Soviet Union could be easier. If Germany had invaded the UK and won, it would have been weaker in the short term, but with no major opponents left in Europe it would have posed an even greater threat to the Soviet Union in the long term. Maybe Germany, or Italy, would have advised Romania to withdraw even if the Soviet Union hadn't said it expected Germany to do so, but that communication may have meant that the later negotiations regarding the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers virtually ensured that Germany would attack it. 2601:600:8500:B2D9:550E:1A12:AF33:E2CF (talk) 00:53, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: Haha, why "Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina" but "Union of Bessarabia with Romania"? Need to change both articles to common title - occupation or union.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.25.53.138 (talk) 07:23, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: Regarding these 2 reverts by Anonimu , : while I agree that the USSR never recognized the unification of Bessarabia with Romania and I think the US also never recognized it (thus the dispute should be mentioned somewhere), I still think occupation is a correct word to use in the 'result' parameter. After all, the article itself is entitled Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Miacek  (talk) 23:14, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent reverts 

message: This information y am missing here. According to Hitler's view of point, the Bukovina was his own sphere of influence since it once belonged to Austria-Hungary as the Kingdom of Galicia. This was a major motive for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, because it was contrary to the joint intention of the two dictators in the pact of 23.08.1939 to restore the strategic spheres of influence of Russia and Austria-Hungary from before the 1st WWW. On the other hand, the ambassador of the Soviet Union had announced to Hitler's the intention of Soviet Union to occupy southern Bucovina, as part of Russia's historical interests, because this historical territory of Romanian Moldavia was part of the Tsarist Empire in the 18th century. There, however, Hitler had strategic interests in Romanian crude oil, as in Finland in nickel and titanium, as well as coal from Norway. These imperial economic interests and the historical spheres of influence were ultimately the reason for the war against the Soviet Union. The fantasized racial theories were only the necessary ideological incitement of the Germans to accept the war.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8071:3EA7:A00:B0B4:1645:17C5:6C45 (talk) 05:46, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you have that backwards. The racial and territorial aims of the Nazis were the main driving force for Germany attacking the Soviet Union. The fact that Northern Bukovina was not included in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was simply an additional pretext. Invading the Soviet Union was always the ultimate goal of Nazism, ever since Hitler announced as such in Mein Kampf. The idea that Nazi Germany would not have attacked if the Soviets had not annexed the region is fantasy. 90.241.246.235 (talk) 01:33, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nordern Bukowina was not part of the Ribbentrop Molotow pact 

message: I noticed modifications of wikipedia articles about the recent russian history that give so much space to the russian historiography such that the articles are hard to follow. The russian historiography was and still remains very much influenced by the present russian politics. The facts are very much blured by so much information and even opinion which render the topics quite difficult to follow. It defeats the purpose of an free encyclopedia and ultimately will lead to the dismisal of Wikipedia as source of quick information about the recent historical events. Simply said, the russophiles with their contributions of "alternative history" will defeat Wikipedia by its own means: freedom of making noise in order to cover the simple facts. 2001:B07:6477:A21E:910C:6D6E:3542:F81D (talk) 11:50, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian invasion of the wikipedia recent history articles