Editing Chernivtsi (section)

=== Soviet occupation and rule ===
[[File:Вступ частин Червоної Армії до Чернівців 1940 р.jpg|thumb|Soviet occupation troops entering Chernivtsi in 1940]]
In 1940, the [[Red Army]] [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina|occupied the area]]; the area around the city became known as [[Chernivtsi Oblast]], and was allotted to the [[Ukrainian SSR]] by the Soviet Union.<ref name="eb" /> The city's large Romanian intelligentsia found refuge in Romania; while the Bukovina Germans were "repatriated" according to a Soviet-Nazi agreement. Under the regime of military dictator [[Ion Antonescu]], Romania had switched from an ally of France and Britain to one of Nazi Germany; subsequently, in July 1941, the Romanian Army retook the city as part of the [[Operation Barbarossa|Axis attack on the Soviet Union]] during World War II. Chernivtsi would become the capital of the Romanian [[Bukovina Governorate]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.rtsa.ro/rtsa/index.php/rtsa/article/view/166|title=Administrarea teritoriului României în timpul celui de-al doilea Război Mondial|first=Viorel|last=Stănică|journal=Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences|volume=9|issue=19|year=2007|pages=107–116|language=ro}}</ref> In August 1941, Antonescu ordered the creation of a [[ghetto]] in the lowland part of the city, where 50,000 [[Bukovina Jews]] were crammed, two-thirds of whom would be deported in October 1941 and early 1942 to [[Transnistria (World War II)|Transnistria]], where the majority of the deportees died. The Romanian mayor of the city [[Traian Popovici]] managed to persuade Antonescu to raise the number of Jews exempted from deportation from 200 to 20,000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dt.ua/SOCIETY/bukovinskiy_shindler.html|title=Bukovinian Schindler|website=DT.ua|access-date=2019-12-28|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228145543/https://dt.ua/SOCIETY/bukovinskiy_shindler.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://versii.cv.ua/news/bukovynskyj-shyndler-kolyshnij-mer-chernivtsiv/14230.html|title=Bukovinian Schindler – former mayor of Chernivtsi|date=2011-09-15|website=Чернівці, Чернівецька область – новини в газеті Версії|language=uk|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref>

After 29 March 1944, when [[Axis forces]] were driven out by the Red Army, the city was reincorporated into the Ukrainian SSR. Over the following years, most of the Jews emigrated to Israel; the city was an important node in the [[Berihah]] network. Bukovina Poles were expelled by the Soviets after World War II. The city became a predominantly Ukrainian one.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}