Editing Tiraspol (section)

=== Soviet Tiraspol ===
[[File:Tiraspol 3.JPG|thumb|left|Tiraspol in 1941]]
After the [[Russian Revolution]], the [[Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] was created in [[Ukraine]] in 1924, with [[Balta, Ukraine|Balta]] as its capital.{{sfn|Cucerescu|Rosca|2015|p=189}} The republic had [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] and Russian as its official languages. Its capital was moved in 1929 to Tiraspol, which remained the capital of the Moldavian ASSR until 1940.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tiraspol {{!}} Moldova {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Tiraspol |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>{{sfn|Cucerescu|Rosca|2015|p=189}}

In 1940, following the secret provisions of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]], the USSR forced Romania to cede [[Bessarabia]]. It integrated Tiraspol, until then part of the [[Moldavian ASSR]], into the newly formed [[Moldavian SSR]]. On 7 August 1941, following the [[Operation Barbarossa|Axis invasion of the Soviet Union]], the city was taken over by [[Romania during World War II|Romanian troops]]. Later that month, on 19 August, the [[Tiraspol Agreement]] establishing the [[Transnistria Governorate]] was signed. During the occupation, Tiraspol was under Romanian administration. During that period almost all of its Jewish population died: they were slain ''in situ'' or deported to German Nazi [[death camp]]s, and killed there.

[[File:Tiraspoljet.JPG|thumb|Soviet [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19|MiG-19]] monument]]
In 1941, before the occupation, the newspaper ''[[Dnestrovskaya Pravda]]'' was founded by the Tiraspol City Council of popular deputies. This is the oldest periodical publication in the region. On 12 April 1944, the city was retaken by the [[Red Army]] and became again part of the Moldavian SSR.

According to a 1991 figure by Moldova's [[Security and Intelligence Service of Moldova|Ministry of National Security]] (now the Security and Intelligence Service, SIS), of the 5,485 people who were sentenced to death in the territory of modern Moldova during totalitarian communist rule, over 4,000 of them were executed in Tiraspol, in the {{ill|Tiraspol Fortress|lt=city's fortress|ro|Cetatea Tiraspol|ru|Тираспольская крепость}}, in 1937 and 1938 alone, during the [[Great Purge]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://arhiva.gov.md/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Cartea-Memoriei.-Volumul-I.pdf|title=Cartea memoriei: catalog al victimelor totalitarismului comunist|first1=Elena|last1=Postică|first2=Maria|last2=Praporșcic|first3=Vera|last3=Stăvilă|editor-first=Elena|editor-last=Postică|publisher=[[National History Museum of Moldova]]|volume=1|page=6|year=1999|language=ro|isbn=9975671098}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://newsmaker.md/ru/ne-vernetsya-nikto-i-nikogda-zdes-sgniete-kak-deportirovali-zhiteley-sovetskoy-mol-33511|title="Не вернется никто и никогда — здесь сгниете". Как депортировали жителей советской Молдавии|first1=Olga|last1=Gnatcova|first2=Marina|last2=Șupac|newspaper=NewsMaker|date=12 September 2017|language=ru}}</ref>