Gheorghe Zgherea Collection at SIS Archive 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.

此临时汇编资料源自有关在共产主义政权下遭受政治压迫的个人的司法档案，目前存放于摩尔多瓦共和国情报与安全服务档案馆（前苏联克格勃档案馆）。该汇编资料聚焦于热奥尔吉·兹格列亚个案，兹格列亚出身农民，为英诺肯季派宗教团体成员，该团体为活跃于比萨拉比亚和德涅斯特河沿岸的千年末和末日论运动，主要在二十世纪上半叶。汇编资料揭示了苏联政权在宗教领域的压制政策，展现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。自1950年底起担任其社区传教士的兹格列亚，被指控在摩尔多瓦苏维埃社会主义共和国的村庄间游走，通过“利用他们的宗教偏见”传播“反苏思想”。他在1953年5月2日被捕，被判处25年苦役。1955年6月，他的刑期减至五年苦役，并按照1953年3月颁布的特别赦令获得赦免。兹格列亚的案例因而指向了斯大林去世后政权的策略变化，同时也指向了压制与遏制异见的连续性和苏联后斯大林时期的转变实践。