THE ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS POLICY OF ROMANIAN INVADERS IN TRANSNISTRIA (1941-1944)
In the present article the basic aspects of the ethnic and religious policy of Romanian occupants on the territory of Transnistria during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1944) are analyzed. The author concludes that the main objective of Romanian politics was the Romanization, deukrainization, and ‘Re-Christianization’ (in Romanian spirit) of the occupied territory of the USSR. Despite flirting with the population and connivance to the Russian cultural component (as opposed to the Ukrainian one), the true attitude of the Romanian authorities to the population of Transnistria was colonialist. The outcome of the Romanian occupation was the depopulation of this region.