“It is important that the citizens of the Republic of Moldova know the history of the Army and the flag, including the evolution of the chromatics and blazons on Moldova’s fag. This knowledge will contribute to improving the general culture of the citizens in the country’s districts, who not always afford to visit the Military Museum of the Agency for Military Science and Memory in Chisinau, which is under the management of the Ministry of Defense,” Doctor of History Sergiu Cataraga, the Military Museum’s director, stated for IPN.
The statement was made on the occasion of the launch of a campaign to promote history and the national values, the culture of military history, the image of the National Army and the military service. The campaign is staged as part of a project with the slogan “Let’s Know our History and Army” of the Agency for Military Science and Memory. As part of the project, mobile exhibitions will be staged in different localities, in education and culture institutions of the country with funds of the Agency, the Military Mass-Media Center and colonel Petru Costin. These will focus on the most important events in the national history, the activity of the National Army, etc.
The project started with two exhibitions at the mayor’s office in Ciuciulea village of Glodeni district. The first is titled “Bessarabia in the period of World War I” and is about the situation of Bessarabia in 1914-1918, while the second consists of over 30 historical flags of the private collections of colonel Petru Costin and of the Military Museum, including the war flag of Stephan the Great and the Flag of Christianity.
In the event, representatives of the Agency for Military Science and Memory handed over an album titled “Army of the Republic of Moldova” and the collection “Founding and Evolution of the National Army of the Republic of Moldova. Documentary references” to the library of Ciuciulea. Both of the works were compiled by colonel Vitalie Ciobanu, vice director of the Agency for Military Science and Memory, who is from Ciuciulea.
