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Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Şandru, Dumitru
Year: 2003
Title: The emigration of the Czechs and Slovaks from Romania after the Second World War
Editor: Alexandru Zub, Flavius Solomon
Book Title: Sovietization in Romania and Czechoslovakia
City: Iași
Publisher: Editura Polirom
Pages: 213-218.
Language: English
Keywords: Czech minority, slovakian minority, sociology, political science, migration, elites, interethnic relationshipos, politics, emigration, diplomacy, war
Abstract(EN): "At the end of World War II, the Czechs and Slovaks were among the minorities in Romania who desired to leave the country. The Census of 29 December 1930 recorded a total of 51,842 inhabitants, of which 45,862, or 88.46%, lived in eight districts (11,790 in Arad district, 11,162 in Bihor, 7,328 in Caraş, 5,901 in Sălaj 3,514 in Timiş-Torontal, 3,254 in Severin, 1,901 in Ilfov, and 1,012 in Hunedoara district). In other districts their number was under one thousand; in Fălciu and Vaslui, for example, the census recorded only one in each.1 In addition to the Czechs and Slovaks who had Romanian citizenship, in Romania lived some foreign citizens having the same ethnic origin. In 1875, the latter category founded the Czechoslovak Colony, whose principal aim was to defend their interests. Before the destruction of the Czechoslovak state by Germany, the chairman of the Colony was an engineer, Stanislav Riha, a well-known patriot of Czech nationality and citizenship, who came to Romania in 1936 as a specialist of the Ceskomoravska- -Kolben-Danek Works in Prague. Riha continued to remain in touch with the ex-president of the Czechoslovak Republic, Edvard Benes, during the Second World War. At the same time, all the other leaders of the Colony were true followers of Benes. In 1939, soon after the Czechoslovak Republic had been invaded by the Reich's armies, the German Legation of Bucharest managed to persuade the Romanian Government to suppress the Czechoslovak Colony and to replace it with the Czech Colony, but none of their members cooperated with the German administration 2After the German Army had conquered the Czechoslovak Republic..."