Vasile Lupu High School Group Explained

Vasile Lupu High School Group
Abbreviation:Majadahonda
Formation:1940
Dissolved:1941
Type:anti-Soviet group
Location:Orhei
Language:Romanian

"Vasile Lupu" High School Group (Romanian: Grupul de liceeni "Vasile Lupu") was one of the first organized anti-Soviet groups in Bessarabia in the wake of its occupation by the Soviet Union on June 28, 1940.

Activity

The resistance group was formed on 1 August 1940 by the students and some teachers of the Vasile Lupu high school in Orhei, which was renamed by the Soviets a Pedagogical School. The group, comprising about 32 members, had as its main goals the overthrow of Soviet power in Bessarabia and the reunification of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania.

After a series of small actions, such as writing anti-Soviet slogans on public walls ("Death to the Stalinist occupiers!", "Go home, barbarians!", "Down with the executioner Stalin!", "Don't believe the bolshevik occupiers!"), and spread of anti-Soviet manifestos, they did an extrodinary achievement: during Christmas night 1940, they took down the Soviet red flags, and put up Romanian flags on top of several buildings in Orhei, including City Hall, the Romanian Communist Party building, and the NKVD headquarters. In January 1941, the NKVD managed to crack into the organization and arrest most of its members. The sentence was pronounced on June 24, 1941.[1]

Members

Most of them were executed by shooting in Chișinău on June 27, 1941, according to a report of the Odessa Military Tribunal, signed Axelrod. Other members of the group:

The investigation was led by G. Goldberg, chief of the Orhei County Section of the NKVD, and was conducted by Konopekin, chief investigator, Terebilo, deputy, Cherepanov, Malinin, Morev, Nikitovich, Plotnikov, and Toporov, investigators.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grupul de rezistență antisovietică din Orhei – Majadahonda (1940–1941). ro. istoria.md. 2014-12-25. 2014-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20141225122805/http://istoria.md/articol/818/Grupul_de_rezisten%C5%A3%C4%83_antisovietic%C4%83_din_Orhei___Majadahonda. live.
  2. Book: Petru. Bunacalea. Andrei . Calcea. Osândiți la nemurire. ro. Presa . Chișinău . 1999.