Speaker at rally commemorating victims of Stalinist deportations: We have sacred duty – not to forget, not to repeat!
Speaker Igor Grosu, President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu and Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu took part today in a requiem rally dedicated to the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communist Deportations. The officials paid tribute to the tens of thousands of people who suffered because of the deportations.
Grosu reiterated that on the night of July 5 to 6, 1949, the largest deportation operation on the territory of our country took place – over 35,000 people, of whom about 12,000 were children, were taken from their homes and deported. “These people were torn, perhaps forever, from their homes and their land, only to end up dying in the wagons of terror or being condemned to years of inhuman labor,” he stressed.
Igor Grosu noted that the deportations were part of the series of crimes committed by the Stalinist regime against our people and other peoples, alongside organized famine, poverty, denationalization, religious persecution, political purges, executions, and the suppression of human freedoms. “We have a sacred duty – not to forget, not to repeat,” he conveyed.
It is marked annually on July 6, having been established by a decision of Parliament in 1990.
This year marks 80 years since the onset of the organized famine, one of the most dramatic consequences of Soviet repressive policies.
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