Why there are no demonstration outside Russia in Western capitals against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the massacre is beyond me.
Land grabs and atrocities by Russian is nothing new. I only wonder how long Europe will watch indifferently?
Before WWII - without reasons the Soviet UNion snatched half of the ethnic region of Bukovina, where my mother was born and murdered anyone that wanted to leave thousands where deported to hard labor camps just because they where not ethnic Russians.
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The Soviet authorities' reaction to this phenomenon was twofold. First, border patrol efforts were strengthened. Second, lists were made of families that had one or more members which had fled to Romania, and thus were considered "traitors of the Motherland", therefore subject to labor camp deportation.
On April 1, 1941, approximately 2,000[1][2] 2,500[4]–3,000 unarmed people from several villages (Patrautii-de-Sus, Patrautii-de-Jos, Cupca, Corcesti, and Suceveni), carrying a white flag and religious symbols, walked together towards the new Soviet-Romanian border. There were rumors circulating that the Soviets would now permit crossing to Romania. At the border they were warned by the Soviet troops to stop.[4] After the group ignored the warning, the border guards began to shoot.
During 1940–1941, between 12,000 and 13,000 Bukovinians (mostly, but not only ethnic Romanians) were deported to Siberia and the Gulag. As a result of emigration and killings,[citation needed] the Romanian population of Chernivtsi region dropped by more than 75,000 between the Romanian 1930 census and the first Soviet census of 1959. |
