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During the Soviet occupation, the religious life in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina underwent a persecution similar to the one in Russia between the two World Wars. In the first days of occupation, certain population groups welcomed the Soviet power and some of them joined the newly established Soviet nomenklatura, including NKVD, the Soviet political police. The latter has used these locals to find and arrest numerous priests.{{in lang|ro}}Martiri pentru Hristos, din România, în perioada regimului comunist, Editura Institutului Biblic Èi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, BucureÈti, 2007, pp. 34â35. Other priests were arrested and interrogated by the Soviet NKVD itself, then deported to the interior of the USSR, and killed. Research on this subject is still at an early stage. As of 2007, the Christian Orthodox church has bestowed the martyrdom to circa 50 clergymen who died in the first year of Soviet occupation (1940â1941).In 1940â1941, some churches were sacked, looted, transformed into public or utility buildings, or closed. Taxes were set, which the believers were obliged to pay if they wanted to pray and be allowed to hold the mass. When Romanian authorities returned after June 1941, churches and monasteries were rebuilt and opened again, but persecution resumed in 1944, when Soviet forces reconquered the territory.{{in lang|ro}}Ludmila Tihonov, Politica statului sovietic faÅ£Ä de cultele din RSS MoldoveneascÄ (1944â1965), Editura Prut InternaÅ£ional, 2004, p.23â65{{in lang|ro}}Alexandru Donos, Regimul sovietic Åi Biserica OrtodoxÄ din Basarabia comunizatÄ (1944â1953), in Partidul, Securitatea Èi Cultele, 1945â1989, Adrian Nicolae Petcu Ed., BucureÈti, Nemira, 2005, p. 337â349The (incomplete) list below contains clergymen of any denomination. Like the majority of the population of the region,{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} most of the people named below were Romanian Christian Orthodox. A person is listed below only if the church has officially used the term martyr in reference to the individual. In doing so, Christian churches have to follow a three-step rule: martyrium materialiter (violent death), martyrium formaliter ex parte tyranni (for the faith on the part of the persecutors), martyrium formaliter ex parte victimae (conscious acceptance of God's will). - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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- Alexandru BaltagÄ, founder of Bessarabian religious press in Romanian, member of Sfatul ÈÄrii (1917â1918).
- Alexandru Motescu, a Bessarabian Romanian Orthodox priest in the city of Tighina. According to the deposition of several witnesses in face of the Comisia de triere in BuzÄu in 1941, at the onset of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, he was caught by a group of Communist supporters and violently mocked. His tongue and ears were cut, then he was taken to the altar, where he was set on fire, and died in horrible pain.{{in lang|ro}}Martiri pentru Hristos, din România, în perioada regimului comunist, Editura Institutului Biblic Åi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, BucureÈti, 2007, p. 764{{in lang|ro}}Constantin I. Stan, Alexandru GaiÅ£Ä, RefugiaÅ£i din Basarabia Åi Bucovina de Nord la Râmnicu-SÄrat, BuzÄu Èi Mizil (1940â1941), in Destin românesc, an IV (1997), no. 2 (14), p. 79, cf. Ibidem above{{in lang|ro}}Constantin I. Stan, Alexandru GaiÅ£Ä, Biserica OrtodoxÄ RomânÄ din Basarabia Åi Bucovina de Nord în anii 1940â1941, in Destin românesc, an IV (1997), no. 3 (15), pp. 99â110, cf. Ibidem above
- Artemie Munteanu, abbot of the Noul NeamÈ Monastery.
- Gheorghe Munteanu (born April 22, 1909, d. 1940), a Bessarabian Romanian Orthodox priest. In 1931, he graduated from the Faculty of Theology of the University of IaÈi, and was ordained a priest in December 1931, being assigned to the NeruÈai parish, Ismail County. On July 1, 1935, he became parish priest of the Regina Maria Church in a suburb of the city of Ismail. He was arrested in the summer of 1940, his hair was cut and his beard was shaved amidst demands that he renounce his faith. When he repeatedly refused, his NKVD tormentors smashed his head on the steps of the Cathedral in Ismail. The people of the city buried him secretly.{{in lang|ro}} Constantin I. Stan, Alexandru GaiÈÄ, Biserica OrtodoxÄ RomânÄ din Basarabia Åi Bucovina de Nord în anii 1940â1941, in Destin românesc, an IV (1997), no. 3 (15), pp. 99â110, cf. above{{in lang|ro}}Alexandru Usatiuc-BulgÄre, PreoÈi martiri ai Mitropoliei Basarabiei, in Literatura Èi Arta, nr. 11 (2391), 13 martie 1997, ChiÈinÄu, p. 7, cf. above{{in lang|ro}}Alfa Èi Omega, an I, nr. 1, ianuarie 1995, p.5, cf. above
See also
- Religion in the Soviet Union
- Soviet anti-religious legislation
- Persecution of Christians in Warsaw Pact countries
- Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
- Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1917â1921)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1921â1928)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1928â1941)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1958â1964)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1970sâ1990)
- Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions
- Persecution of Muslims in the former USSR
- Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union
- Red Terror
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