The Union Council calls on the people to take part in the National Dignity March for commemorating the events of June 28, 1940. The march will start from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and will end in front of the Embassy of Russia. In a news conference at IPN, members of the Union Council said that initially they intended to stage the related events in the Great National Assembly Square, but the Liberal Party (PL) reserved the place from last year, IPN reports.
The head of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Vitalia Pavlichenko, who is one of the coordinators of the Union Council, said the PL abuses its power and reserves places for public events several years beforehand. The PL has an abusive behavior as it controls the administrative leverage of the municipality and uses it against those who are considered political opponents. This behavior is egoistic and does not contribute to the unification of the Romanian democratic forces. “We were always named Russia’s agents, but it is they that allowed holding a concert involving Russian singers on May 9,” stated Vitalia Pavlichenko.
Anatol Caraman, chairman of the Association of Veterans of the 1992 Nistru War “Tiras-Tighina” and a member of the Union Council, said that a performance of national songs with patriotic discourses was to be organized in the central square of Chisinau, but the PL occupied that place. Caraman condemned the Liberals for allowing the May 9 concert to take place in the Great National Assembly Square. “They stained the square and we wanted to clean it by this march,” he stated.
The Union Council will also hold a commemoration event at the cemetery of Romanian soldiers in Tiganca on June 22.
Constantin Codreanu, a member of the PNL, said the PL filed an application concerning the organization of the event of June 28, 2012 on April 19, 2012.
On June 28, 1940, the Russian troops entered Bessarabia following the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov nonaggression pact between Germany and Russia on August 23, 1939.
