The processes of sovietization of southern Bessarabia (1940 – 1946) in the documents of the state archive of the Odessa region in the city of izmail: an attempt to scientific research
The Sovietization of Southern Bessarabia excelled with definite softness, which was partly explained by escape of “exploitative element” to Romania, as well as the opportunity to evacuate Soviet rule dissenters under the guise of German colonists repatriation. A lot of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians used that opportunity. The local population did not show any active resistance to the processes of state transformations; Ukrainian nationalist structures were almost absent here.