Abstract:
The process of forming and consolidating totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century directly affected the people’s lives from the European continent. One of the methods of „re-education of the enemies of the people” was deportations, through which many human lives were destroyed in the states that were in the area of interest of the USSR. So, absolutely innocent people became victims of the communist regime. Stalinist deportations destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of people from Bessarabia. During the 1951 „North” operation, of the 2617 people, 967 were women and 842 were children under 15. Communist ideology summed up the belief in only one leader of the state, the cult of personality, one party, the communist party, etc., fiercely ignoring the faith in God, promoting atheism. In early 1951, the Soviet leadership decided to deport the families of Jehovah’s Witnesses from the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and the MSSR to Siberia. The archive documents show us a negative attitude of the soviet authorities towards the activity of „Jehovah’s Witnesses”, which were presented as „dangerous elements”, „anti-Soviet elements”, „enemies of the people”. The reasons for the third wave of deportation are ideological, political, social, but also economic.
