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Military operations and population control were essential for defeating Romanian partisans. The chapter discusses the military instrument of the pro-Moscow regime and classic operations, such as patrolling, checkpoints, cordoning, searches, informed strikes, ambushes, tactical assaults against entrenched positions, sweeps through forests and mountains, while providing an assessment of their relative efficiency. The population control segment engages with censorship, the crushing of peasant revolts and especially with large-scale internal deportations of segments of population deemed by the government to be suspect or unreliable.
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Miroiu, A. (2016). Military Operations and Population Control. In: Romanian Counterinsurgency and its Global Context, 1944-1962. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32379-4_5
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