Historian of Soviet Union; Soviet State Terror; Soviet Famines; Soviet Nationalities Policy; Soviet Moldavia. Director at Nat.Agency of Archives, Chișinău, Moldova.https://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3m3gx4zuq522mAlexandru Cazacu (7. Nov. 1949 - 17.10.2025). The first Moldovan rock guitarist playing for NOROC 1969-70 and CONTEMPORANUL 1974-5. One of the best in USSR in the 1970s. Second right hand. Source: National Agency of Archives.18 Oct 2025 04:27 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gx4zuq522mhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3m2mg2wtsys2hSwiss archivists and historians visiting the National Agency of Archives in Chişinău, interested in Moldovan history, memory and archives, October 6. Thanks for the visit and waiting for Swiss historians to conduct research in our depositories! arhiva.gov.md07 Oct 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mg2wtsys2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lyxvd5fqhs2k16.09.1924: SOVIET HYBRID WAR AGAINST INTERWAR ROMANIA. My account on what happened in "Exporting Soviet Revolution: Tatarbunar Rebellion in Romanian Bessarabia (1924) // The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs Vol. 22, 2020.16 Sep 2025 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxvd5fqhs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lyxugh2cz22k101 years today since the Tatarbunar rebellion in south Bessarabia, a Soviet inspired and led uprising against Romania, a hybrid war avant la lettre. Source: arhiva.gov.md16 Sep 2025 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxugh2cz22khttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lxnfskaozc2t1989, 29-31 Aug: supporters of national movement beaten by Soviet militia in downtown Chişinău for endorsing Romanian language as state one. Parliament voted for that, that is why Moldova celebrates each year on Aug. 31 - and since 2011 Romania as well- day of Romanian language.30 Aug 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxnfskaozc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lxmtsj2l4s2b1991, August 27: Moldova declares its independence from the Soviet Union.30 Aug 2025 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxmtsj2l4s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lx2ijyi5n22o1989: condemning the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939 and its consequences for Bessarabia during the mass protests in downtown Chişinău. This issue was one of the main to delegitimise the Soviet regime.23 Aug 2025 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx2ijyi5n22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lujn2ac4bc2uExhibition on “State Terror in Soviet Moldavia. Victims, Perpetrators, and Scale” in downtown Chişinău until July 27. Organised by National Agency of Archives, and Government of Moldova.22 Jul 2025 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lujn2ac4bc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lu5jjzq2fc2dThe interactive map of Soviet mass deportation from the Moldavian SSR in early July 1949, Operation SOUTH. The total of 35 792 persons were embarked at the nearby 26 railway stations. Click on the station and you will get the full list of those embarked from the nearest localities, per carriage.17 Jul 2025 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu5jjzq2fc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lrg7egzbo22eREMEMBERING 1st MASS DEPORTATION IN MOLDAVIA: I. Cașu, Mass Deportation from Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR in mid-June 1941. Enhancing Security, a Social Engineering Operation, or something else? Securitas Imperii, 37, 2/2020, Available online for free at: securitas-imperii-journal.com/author/casu/12 Jun 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg7egzbo22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lpa33hq24s2hVIDEO 1986: satul Gura Galbenei, raionul Cimișlia. Părinți rămași la bătrânețe fără nici un sprijin, copiii fiind plecați departe în lume. Secvență din filmul "Cu durere și speranță", Moldova-film, regie Boris Vieru, scenariu - Dumitru Olărescu. Sursa: arhiva.gov.md15 May 2025 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpa33hq24s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lp5qmxuyks2fNEW BOOK on European famines, including on the Soviet postwar famine of 1946-7 which was most devastating proportionally in historical Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR. OPEN ACCESS.14 May 2025 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5qmxuyks2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lnxjtoxrds26Today’s visit to the Agenția Națională a Arhivelor of our American guests, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, and Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago. We have found some documents pertaining to Laura’s roots in Bessarabia.29 Apr 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxjtoxrds26https://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lnqhozw5n22qChernobyl nuclear catastrophe based on KGB docs - in a volume of 1200 pages published by Ukrainian historians back in 2019. Full access: https://cdvr.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chornobyl-2019.pdf26 Apr 2025 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnqhozw5n22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lnin4sdmoc2hNext Wednesday, 30.04.2025, Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, will give a talk in Chișinău about Europe and Near East as Shatter-Zones of Empire in the 20th and 21st Centuries.23 Apr 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnin4sdmoc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lnimspihyk2hNext Tuesday, 29.04.2025, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, will give a talk in Chișinău about her ancestors born in Copanca, Moldova, on the Dniester river, and how they survived Russian revolution and civil war.23 Apr 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnimspihyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lmzen24ogc2uOnline exhibition on postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-7: lnkd.in/dvVqRA4j organised by government of Moldova and National Agency of Archives.17 Apr 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzen24ogc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lmuteklp222eCrude Death Rate (CDR) per 1000 in Soviet Moldavia during the postwar famine of 1946-1947 (only 1947 here) which was the most devastating proportionally in the MSSR with 123,000 deaths, i.e. 4.5 % (Ellman, 2000). Map © Stephen Wheatcroft, Filip Slaveski, Igor Cașu, Ian D. Bishop.15 Apr 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuteklp222ehttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lmuqv6r2xc2xCannibalism during the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-1947. 153 cases documented so far based on archival sources. Includes both hommicidal cannibalism and necro-cannibalism.15 Apr 2025 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuqv6r2xc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lle2lbjsvs2sU.S. HISTORIAN GLENN TORREY: On March 27, 1918, Sfatul Țării voted for Union of Bessarabia with Romania. Germany, France, and Great Britain approved it, for various reasons, "confirming the principle of nationality and self-determination". Romania and WWI, 1999, pp. 124-127.27 Mar 2025 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lle2lbjsvs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lkvw5utg3k2bAgenția Națională a Arhivelor is glad to host this week Katerina Lykoudi, Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, who is working on a research topic "Russian-Ottoman relations and the Karaites Question" (Turkic-speaking Judaic ethnoreligious group).21 Mar 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvw5utg3k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lkogwc352s2j30 years ago today - the biggest 3-month long student protests began in Moldova against an attempt by ruling PDAM government to reinstall the Soviet identity politics by forbidding the national history paradigm as part of history of Romanians instated in 1990.18 Mar 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkogwc352s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lkistaiuc22fThe Voice of America helped a lot of Moldovans to avoid the Soviet mass deportations of early July 1949. Source: Agenția Națională a Arhivelor (ANA), Chișinău, Moldova, file on operation IUG, 1949, a former MGB/KGB file.16 Mar 2025 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkistaiuc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lkenfmhyok2tFOREIGN GUESTS AT MOLDOVA's ARCHIVES: this week we hosted Simon Miles, Duke University, author of "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War", 2020, working now on "On Guard for Peace and Socialism: The Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991".14 Mar 2025 22:20 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkenfmhyok2thttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3lk73mvsowk2iMoldova was the 1st country in the world - it is true not yet fully independent itself at that time - to recognize Lithuania’s independence from the USSR declared on March 11, 1990.12 Mar 2025 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk73mvsowk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3ljj3kgfuf22bVisual Capitalist, 2025. Via Ion Efros.03 Mar 2025 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljj3kgfuf22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3ljj3ib3pw22bFinland’s President Alexander Stubb to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, 03.03.25: We should give Ukraine a de facto NATO membership, that means if Russia ever breaks that settlement or breaks the ceasefire and attacks Ukraine again, Ukraine becomes automatically a member of NATO.03 Mar 2025 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljj3ib3pw22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3ljfqedfm322xFive myths, i.e. fake-news about the Russian-Moldovan war of 1992 that started today 33 years ago over Transnistria. In Russian, with Romanian subtitles, a rare opportunity to listen to voices on both sides of Dniester River. Source: Zona de Securitate. https://youtu.be/SMJ_CdirzI8?si=md1clc7bSF9wr-K502 Mar 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfqedfm322xhttps://bsky.app/profile/icasu.bsky.social/post/3ljfphwggz22xOnline exhibition on refugees issue during the Russian-Moldovan war of 1992 over Transnistria. You are most welcome to come to National Agency of Archives in Chișinău to do research on that. See online fond 2848, inventory no. 11 for more details.02 Mar 2025 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:7typwogfn37woshpqwgzzc5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfphwggz22x