Moldovan academicians justify the presidential decree whereby June 28 was declared Soviet Occupation Day. “The people do not yet recognize the importance of the date of June 28, 1940,” academician Andrei Esanu said Wednesday at the meeting of the Supreme Council for Science and Technological Development of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Info-Prim Neo reports. The archive documents and researches carried out by Moldovan and foreign historians show the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina on June 28, 1940 was conceived and carried our by the Stalinist political and military Command as a military operation to occupy these territories. Such conclusions were reached by the commission of experts headed by Andrei Esanu. The academician stressed the Red Army acted in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its actions constituted unjust occupation. “The scientific truth was known. We only had to analyze the results and present them in a short form. But nothing changed. History cannot be changed. Only scientific proofs and documents can be added,” Andrei Esanu said. The president of the Academy of Sciences Gheorghe Duca said there are historical documents showing what happened on that date. June 28 was decreed Soviet Occupation Day by Acting President Mihai Ghimpu on June 24.