For preventing tragedies such as Stalinist deportations or Nazi concentration camps from repeating themselves, we need democracy and rule of law, to be in the service of the people and keep politicians from morphing into tyrants. This is what President Maia Sandu stated on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes.
“On this day, we remember the victims of Stalinist deportations and those of Nazi concentration camps, those who suffered from political repression, died during organized famines or were exterminated on religious and racial grounds. Tens of millions of people deprived of their liberty, tortured and killed just because they became hostages of ideologies for which human life had no value”, Maia Sandu stated in a Facebook post.
According to the President, this day of remembrance should unite and motivate us to build a society in which human life becomes the supreme value.
The Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes was established in Moldova in August 2019, by the Government headed by Maia Sandu. Moldova thus joined the decision of the European Parliament of 2008, which declared August 23 as the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism and Communism.
