On December 1, all those who support Moldova’s union with Romania, are invited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Union by a march that will set off from the Cemetery of Romanian Heroes in Chisinau at 10am. In a news conference at IPN, Vlad Biletski, chairman of the Association “Unirea-ODIP”, said the march starts at the Cemetery of Romanian Heroes because this is a symbol of the Romanians who struggled for the national ideal and flowers at the tombs of Romanian soldiers killed in battle will be laid there.
The participants will march to the monument to deportees situated on the Alley of the Railway Terminal, where flowers will also be laid, and then to the monument to Ruler Stephan the Great, where the holiday will be marked by a Union Round Dance. The event will end with a meeting with representatives of a number of unionist organizations and parties in Europe Square.
Vlad Biletski said it is very important to mark the union centenary in Chisinau and it would be a pity not to organize a cultural-patriotic program dedicated to the centenary in Moldova. By such activities, they render homage to those who struggled for the union, while those who embrace the union ideal can do it by taking part in the march, by laying flowers and by promoting the unionist message.
He also said that those who want to take part in the events in Romania’s Alba Iulia can go there in an organized way by registering at “Unirea-ODIP” by November 29. A return ticket costs 600 lei.
Pavel Vintilă, vice president of the Association “New Right”, said practically half of the works to restore the fence around the Cemetery of Romanian Heroes have been executed so far. The works that involve groups of volunteers are expected to be completed by this yearned.
Vice president of the Committee for Safeguarding the Cemetery of Romanian Cemetery Vaeceslav Verlan, who is a combatant of the Nistru war, called on those who embrace the union ideal to go to the Cemetery on December 1 and lay flowers at soldiers’ graves so as to render homage to those who died for the national ideal. About 1,200 Romanian soldiers who died during World War I and World War II were buried at the Cemetery of Romanian Heroes in Chisinau.
