It is true that it was their system to resettle Russians (in this case as it
was war or a short time after war - Red Army Staff) in conquered countries,
and we can see nowadays the consequences in the Baltic countries or east
Ukraine, but in the case of my family and many others I know about, there
was the standing danger from the first occupation to be deported o Sibir and
we had to flee clandestine before the end of the war - not all with success.
Those caught were sent to the Donbas coal mines. Those that survived
returned as wrecks with lungs full with coal dust. They saved our lives from
the Nazis but their corrupt , cruel regime was no fun if you know what I
mean.
Yosef Eshet
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[mailto:bounce-120586708-14007051_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Hardy
Breier
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 11:44 AM
To: 'Edgar Hauster'þ <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; 'Czernowitz Discussion Group'þ
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Repatriates at the USSR/Romanian Border - March/April
1946
Svitlana Frunchak's argument seem the most plausible .
They needed our flats for Red Army staff, On the day we left a red army
officer showed up to take over.
But they could have sent us to Vorkutka !
Or to Birobidjan,
Hardy
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[mailto:bounce-120586689-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Edgar
Hauster
Sent: 26 June 2016 11:19
To: Hardy Breier; Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Repatriates at the USSR/Romanian Border - March/April
1946
Hardy...
You asked: "Why did they let us go?" - Well, while Mordechai Altshuler
stated (p. 62/63 [9/10])
http://hauster.de/data/SovietTransfer.pdf
http://radauti.blogspot.de/2009/12/repatriates-at-ussrromanian-border.html
"To the best of our knowledge, the reasons that led the Soviet government
and Stalin personally to decide in August 1945 an the transfer of thousands
of Jews from Chernovtsy Province to Romania were not connected with a change
in the negative Soviet attitude toward the Jewish community in Palestine
(the yishuv). There are also good grounds for assuming that the decision was
not motivated by concern for the suffering of the Jewish population. Rather
the decision appears to have been primarily influenced by consideration for
the hostility of the local population toward the Jews and the general
tendency to Ukrainize areas that had been annexed to the Soviet Union."
personally I tend to share Svitlana Frunchak's opinion, when she's stating
in her dissertation (p. 342/3 [352/3])
http://hauster.de/data/FrunchakSvitlana.pdf
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2016/01/the-making-of-soviet-chernivtsi.ht
ml
"Ideology was only one important dimension of the 1945-1946 "evacuation."
Another was the practical issue of expropriating the evacuees' possessions.
Although often impoverished and having been deprived of many of their
belongings during the first Sovietization of 1940-1941, the Romanian
occupation, and the second Sovietization of 1944-1945, many Jews who
survived the Holocaust in the city still occupied prestigious apartments - a
commodity that was becoming more and more precious with the continuous
arrival of Soviet in-migrants."
However that may be, that's how it goes!
Edgar Hauster
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