1 social , cultural consequences 1.1 population movements 1.2 deportations , political repression 1.3 religious persecution social , cultural consequences at moment of soviet occupation, regions had total population of 3,776,309 inhabitants. according romanian official statistics, distributed among ethnic groups follows: romanians (53.49%), ukrainians , ruthenians (15.3%), russians (10.34%), jews (7.27%), bulgarians (4.91%), germans (3.31%), others (5.12%). population movements volksdeutsche resettling after soviet occupation of bessarabia during soviet takeover in 1940, bessarabian germans (82,000) , bukovinain germans (40,000-45,000) repatriated germany @ request of hitler s government. of them forcibly settled nazis in german-occupied poland (they preferred proper german regions), , had move again in 1944-1945. people affected resettlement not persecuted, given no choice stay or live, , had change entire livelihood within weeks or days. up 70,000 people fled bessarabia , northern bu...