Gheorghe Zgherea - Colecția de la Arhiva SIS Moldova

This ad-hoc collection was separated from the fonds of judicial files concerning persons subject to political repression during the communist regime which is currently stored in the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive). It focuses on the case of Gheorghe Zgherea, a person of peasant background who was a member of the Inochentist religious community, a millenarian and eschatological movement active in Bessarabia and Transnistria mostly during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection materials are revealing for the repressive policy of the Soviet regime in the religious sphere, showing the Soviet authorities’ hostile attitude toward non-mainstream and marginal denominations, which were perceived as a particularly serious threat. Zgherea, a preacher within his community starting from late 1950, was accused of “roaming the villages” of the Moldavian SSR and spreading “anti-Soviet ideas” among the local populace by “using their religious prejudices.” Arrested on 2 May 1953, he received a harsh sentence of twenty-five years of hard labour. His sentence was reduced to five years of hard labour in June 1955, when he was also amnestied according to a special decree of March 1953. Zgherea’s case thus points to the changing strategies of the regime applied after Stalin’s death, but also to the continuity of repression and to the shifting practices of stifling dissent in post-Stalinist Soviet society.

此即兴编纂的资料集源自于现藏于摩尔多瓦共和国情报与安全局档案（前身为克格勃档案）的涉及遭受共产主义政权政治迫害之人士的司法档案。该资料集聚焦于乔治·兹格雷亚个案，兹格雷亚出身于农民家庭，自1950年末起成为其宗教社区的一名传教士，该社区为活跃于二十世纪上半叶比萨拉比亚和德涅斯特河沿岸的千年主义和末世论运动。资料集内容揭示了苏联政权在宗教领域的镇压政策，展示了苏联当局对非主流和边缘教派的敌对态度，这些教派被视为特别严重的威胁。兹格雷亚自1950年末起在其社区内担任传教士，被指控在摩尔多瓦苏维埃社会主义共和国的村庄间“游荡”，并利用“他们的宗教偏见”在当地民众中传播“反苏思想”。他于1953年5月2日被捕，被判处25年苦役。1955年6月，他的刑期被减至五年苦役，同时根据1953年3月的一项特别赦令获得赦免。兹格雷亚的案例因此揭示了斯大林去世后政权策略的变化，但也指向了镇压的连续性以及后斯大林时期苏联社会压制异见言论的变迁实践。