Strategiile sovietice de „deromânizare” în RSS Moldovenească (1944-1949) [Articol]

Abstract

Soviet strategies of „deromanization” in the Moldavian SSR (1944-1949). The study analyses the actions of the communist authorities to deconstruct the Romanian identity and create a new national identity for the Moldovan SSR in the first five years after the restoration of the Soviet regime. In concrete terms, the main strategies by which these objectives were implemented are highlighted, as the role of repression and ideological re-education of the population in the register of hate speech against the Romanian regime and „hostile elements”. The institutions of the ideological front will work towards these goals, and political activity will focus on an even stronger campaign of indoctrination of the population. The unstated purpose of these measures is to deprive the local population of the main tools of ethnocultural legitimization, forcing them to accept the idea that they have no past, no cultural memory and that it is the product of Soviet society.