PHOTO // Exhibition Soviet Terror in Moldavian SSR returns to PMAN for third consecutive year

The exhibition - Soviet Terror in Moldavian SSR returns to PMAN for the third consecutive year. The railway cars were installed this evening.

The Director of the National Archives Agency, Igor Cașu, mentioned that the opening ceremony of the exhibition will take place on Saturday, July 5, at 8:00 PM.


"Starting Sunday, the exhibition will be open daily from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, until July 27. The event is dedicated to the victims of Stalinism and communism in general. It is an initiative directly supported and coordinated by the Government of the Republic of Moldova for the third year in a row. Thus, it becomes a tradition and a sign of normality: that we live in a free society where we can express our thoughts and commemorate, with dignity, all our compatriots who have unjustly suffered in peacetime due to a dictatorial and totalitarian regime," said Cașu.


He specified that this year, the institution he leads has prepared a new set of posters, created with a different concept, featuring new materials, photographs, and interpretations.


"The exhibition covers the entire Soviet era, from start to finish, which is why it bears the generic title State Terror in Soviet Moldova: Victims, Perpetrators, Scope. The explanatory texts are available in Romanian and English," added Cașu.


Today, Speaker Igor Grosu also invited all citizens to visit the exhibition and attend the commemorative events.


"I invite all citizens to visit the exhibition and other events to keep alive the memory of those who suffered the nightmares of a barbaric regime. Their pain should not and cannot be forgotten," said Grosu.


He announced that on Saturday, in Mereni, Anenii Noi district, an international conference dedicated to the political repressions and deportations of July 6, 1949, will take place within the Open-Air Museum Complex.

On 6 July, at 8:00 AM, a commemoration meeting will take place at the monument of the deportation victims near the Chisinau Railway Station for those who were torn from their homes and sent to Siberia.

On the night of July 5 to 6, 1949, the Soviet regime orchestrated one of the largest deportation operations in the history of the Republic of Moldova and the entire Eastern European region. Approximately 40,000 people, including women, children, and the elderly, were forced to leave their homes and sent in inhumane conditions to camps in Siberia.