“Accidentally or not, Ion Aldea-Teodorovici and Nicolae Costin were born on April 7, date when a year ago, the young people defended the values to which these two patriots aspired,” Iuliana Gorea-Costin said at her husband's grave on Wednesday, April 7. The commemoration event held at the Central Cemetery in Chisinau, where there were buried the former mayor of Chisinau Nicolae Costin and singer Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, brought together hundreds of people, Info-Prim Neo reports. Iuliana Gorea-Costin said that if Nicolae Costin, Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, Ion Vatamanu and other national martyrs hadn't passed away so early, we wouldn't have had to follow again the road to the European values. Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said Nicolae Costin and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici wouldn't have understood last year's riots, when thousands of young people were maltreated, tortured and humiliated. “It is said that a pile of stones stops being a pile for a person who has the image of a temple in the mind. Nicolae Costin had such an image in his mind and aspired for freedom,” said Valeria Sali, who was a Chisinau councilor when Nicolae Costin acted as mayor. “The death of Ion and Doina wasn't an accident,” Doina's mother Eugenia Marin said at the artists' grave. “They said then that Doina remained blocked in the car, but women from the village saw her thrown in a field of corn. A young man from Israel, who studied at the faculty of medicine in Iasi, came to help her. He said her heart was beating, but she died of pain. He was not allowed to help her. They threatened him they will expel him from the country. This is the truth, not the show made by the court in Urziceni,” Eugenia Marin told Info-Prim Neo. “Not only spiritual aspirations, values and desiderata, but also a close friendship connected us with Ion Aldea-Teodorovici and Nicolae Costin,” said poet Valeriu Matei. “We went to the same school with Ion. With Nicolae Costin, we were members of the National Revival Movement and the Parliament. The values for which we struggle today formed part of their nature.” Nicolae Costin, mayor of Chisinau in 1990 – 1994, a leading member of the National Revival Movement and member of the Parliament of Moldova, would have turned 74 today. Composer and singer Ion Aldea-Teodorovici departed this life at the age of 38. He died in a road accident. His songs about the Romanian language, Eminescu, the tricolor and freedom continue to be popular noways. The artist would have celebrated 56 years today.