The Moldovan people witnessed many cruelties and injustices in history, in different epochs and under different regimes. It had a life marked by suffering. The mass deportations represent one of the black pages of history, when a significant part of the population was uprooted and subject to persecution, says the message of President Igor Dodon that was published on the day of remembrance for the victims of the second wave of deportations, IPN reports.
President Dodon said the repression was condemned in the 20th Congress of the Communists Party of the Soviet Union held on February 25, 1956. The repression was intensely analyzed and subject to public opprobrium in Russia and in other former Soviet republics in the 1990s. This event remains in the collective memory of all those who were affected, in particular of those who experienced the repression themselves. It is regrettable that particular discredited party leaders and parties now try to recover from the political faint by speculating on those sad historical events. They are trying to gain political advantages from the people’s sufferings.
“I offer my condolences to all those who were affected by the repression. I call on the politicians to learn the lessons of history and not to try to bring the past into the future in the interests of their parties,” said President Dodon.
The Stalinism Victims Day with celebration on July 6 was instituted by Parliament on May 22, 2008. On July 6, 2016 ex-President Nicolae Timofti signed the relevant decree and since then the national flag all over Moldova has been flown at half-mast on July 6.
The deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina were a form of political repression implemented by the Soviet authorities. The exact number of those who were affected by this type of repression is not known, but it is projected that several hundred thousand people were deported between June 28, 1940 and March 5, 1953. There were three waves of mass deportations – in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951 - and the deportees came to about 58,000.
