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When the Soviets announced t=E2=80=8Bhat everyone that wants to move to the=
south,
have to register, my father said: registration will be like a death penalty
or worse to Siberia. For that reason, we moved to the south Illegally (no
registration but more danger).
[Asher Turtel]
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Gabriel Rinzler <grinzler_at_gru.net> wrote:
> Let me jump in in the dispute: It is a fact the we could leave Czernivtsi
> for Romania because of a decision of the Supreme Soviet.
>
> The question may be why the decision was made. Both Altschuler and
> Frunchak made credible arguments.
>
> I would ad another fact: The Soviets have persecuted people who had
> relatives abroad among other things, because the could get information
>
> that would contradict Soviet official propaganda. We Czernowitzers have
> lived in the west before and knew too much about life in the west.
>
> So why did Stalin not deport us to Siberia or Birobijan as he did with
> Tatatars, Kulaks, etc? Remember it was a year or two after a devastating =
war
>
> and it was more convenient to just let them go (at their own expense) to
> Romania or Poland.
>
> So I would answer the question of which of these arguments motivated them
> to let us go: all three of them
>
> Gaby Rinzler
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