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
On 6/26/2016 3:34 PM, Edgar Hauster wrote:
> Hardy...
>
> Although Mordechai Altshuler's focus on ideological aspects is for sure correct, I stated earlier that personally I'm tending very much to Svitlana Frunchak's opinion. Let me reinforce my position by an excerpt from a letter of my grandfather Elias Hauster, dated April 7, 1947, i. e. 10 month after the so-called repatriation to Radautz:
>
> http://radautz.blogspot.de/2007/12/blog-post.html
>
> "... Expelled from my home and my familiar existence, I shifted from an intellectual precision worker to mud and water carrier. We are dwelling in empty rooms with some roughly carpentered utensils, our stuff is worn out, one son [Maximilian Hauster] has been murdered, during the winter we suffered from cold, even now it is in the early morning and during the night sensitively cold. Our hygienics (only washing since we are "people without bath") are in winter at the freezing point, as far as practicable cold has to replace hygienics. In part I had to sacrifice my mental warehouse for polenta [mamaliga] in 1942, the rest was swallowed by the steppe [synonymical for the Russians]."
>
> That's how it went!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
>
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