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19 July, 2026 / 04:08

/ 11 June, 2026

Moment of silence in Parliament in memory of victims of Stalinist deportations

MPs held a moment of silence in memory of the victims of Stalinist deportations. The initiative came from Speaker Igor Grosu to mark 85 years since the first deportation operation from Bessarabia.

The Speaker recalled that on the night of June 12–13, 1941, the first deportation operation organized by the Soviet regime began, during which more than 30,000 people were taken from their homes and transported in freight wagons, in inhumane conditions, to various remote regions.

According to him, among the victims were the grandparents, parents and relatives of today’s citizens, and many of them never returned home.

“The tragedy of the deportations is the tragedy of our people and we have a duty to keep alive the memory of these people and to pass on to future generations the truth about the crimes of a totalitarian regime,” Grosu said.

He also announced the organization of a themed exhibition on Friday, June 12, at 09:00, in the Great National Assembly Square, under the title “State Terror in Soviet Moldova: scope, victims and perpetrators”, organized by the Ministry of Culture. The exhibition will be open until July 6 and can be visited daily between 09:00 and 21:00.

A similar exhibition will also be inaugurated in Bălți, in commemoration of the victims of Stalinist deportations.

The mass deportation operation in the Moldavian SSR, on the night of June 12–13, 1941, included 18,392 people and was part of a broader action to “cleanse” the new territories occupied by the USSR in 1939–1940, following the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact. The mass deportation of July 6–9, 1949, was the largest on the current territory of the Republic of Moldova. The operation covered more than 11 thousand families, with the contingent forcibly relocated in cattle wagons totaling 35,796 people, including 11,889 children, 14,033 women and 9,864 men.

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