The bones of many Soviet soldiers who died in battles in Königsberg, including Bessarabians who were drafted into the Red Army in the autumn of 1944, may be decomposing in cellars and garages, where they were stored up by members of the Russian search department “Sovesty”. The information was made public after a row with the administration of Kaliningrad town (earlier Könisberg), which opposes the burying of the remains of the soldiers killed in battles in the spring of 1945. The members of the family of Bessarabian soldier Nicolae Severin from Straseni told Info-Prim Neo's reporter that the information published by “Sovesty” (http://www.baltinfo.ru/stories/Dostoiny-li-geroi-pogrebeniya-111948) made them anxious as they never knew where their grandfather and great-grandfather was buried. In the autumn of 1944, Nicolae Severin, 43, went voluntarily to the war, being the oldest recruit from Straseni. He died in the spring of 1945 in battles in Königsberg, two days before the fall of the fortress and 32 days before the fall of Berlin. Nicolae Severin's daughter Tudora, 85, stated for Info-Prim Neo that the fear for his family's safety fueled by memories of arrests, deportations and killing of several hundreds of thousands of Romanians during 1940-1941 made her father join the Red Army. He had two houses, land, animals, an inn and felt he could save the lives of his wife and his two children only if he went to the front. “If I stay, they will kill us or will send us to Siberia. If I go and die, you will remain alive,” Nicolae Severin said when he departed. Tudora remembers that about 100 recruits from Straseni, including her father and the 18-year-old brothers of her friends, were led to Chisinau by foot on a rainy night. From Chisinau, they were taken by trucks to the West. “They got to Prussia and were sacrificed together with thousands of Bessarabians in the last phase of the war,” she said. The family received two letters from soldier Severin, where he told them he was in Prussia and inquired how there were doing without him. On April 7, 1945, he died in a bomb explosion during an attack. The family was informed about the tragedy by a co-villager, who said he saw himself how Nicolae died. “The only picture of my father that we had at home was buried by my mother during the requiem. I don't remember him very well. His grandchildren don't know even how he looked,” said Tudora. The Königsberg fortress fell on April 9, 1945. According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, soldier Nicolae Severin was immortalized at the Victory Park Memorial in Kaliningrad. “This means that he was not buried in that place, that his burial place is not known. From now on, we will be troubled by the idea that his remains had not been buried and we can do nothing for him,” said Tudora Severin. Historian Veaceslav Stavila said recently that 54,618 Bessarabians who were drafted into the Red Army in the autumn of 1944 lost their lives in war during the last three months before the fall of Berlin, in February-May 1945. Historian Mihai Tasca's commentary for Info-Prim Neo: “Regretfully, it is 65 years of those events, but the exact number of Bessarabians who were sent to the front on behalf of Romania and the USSR is not yet known. The place where dead soldiers were buried is also not known. In many cases, it is not known if they were buried. Many remains had not been buried, including of Bessarabians who fought in the last phase of the Seconal World War. The entire society is not at peace as a war is over only when the last dead soldier is buried. In general, it is thought that many of our compatriots who died in battle in that period could have remained alive in other circumstances. The Bessarabians who did not know Russian and were not trained before sent to war were used as cannon fodder in the most dangerous sectors of the war. Many of them died during the attack on the Königsberg fortress and the fortress of Pillau, which was the last place controlled by the Nazis in East Prussia. A part of our historians believe that the Soviet authorities planned to destroy the male population in the area between the Prut and the Nistru. As a matter of fact, the Soviet authorities mobilized Bessarbians even if they had Romanian nationality and there were international conventions beaning mobilization in the occupied territories. The case of soldier Nicolae Severin shows that we do not have the right to forget the names of those who took part in the war. As a member of the commission for studying and assessing the consequences of the totalitarian Communist regime in Moldova, I will plead for the inclusion in the commission's final report of the proposal to launch a campaign for identifying and burying all the soldiers who died in the Second World War.