Mihai Ghimpu: Communism should be condemned, but only Parliament can do it
The Parliament will decide whether to condemn the Communism or not after the commission for assessing the totalitarian Communist regime in Moldova presents its report. Acting President Mihai Ghimpu considers that it should be condemned, Info-Prim Neo reports.
“We do not know what conclusions the commission will reach. I think the Communism should be condemned. We now live in misery due to the Communists. Though I'm liberal and consider that everyone must have their view, I cannot understand how mentally healthy people can subscribe to this false ideology,” Mihai Ghimpu told a news conference on May 27.
He said he does not understand why the PCRM is against this commission that is investigating the events that took place before 1990. “They probably feel guilty if they express such strong opposition. How can the Communists say that they have nothing in common with the then Communists if they continue to use the hammer and sickle under which hundreds of millions of people were killed in the former USSR?” Ghimpu asked.
Mihai Ghimpu stressed that when the Government will stage a meeting to commemorate the victims of the Stalinist deportations on June 13, the Communists intend to mount a protest in central Chisinau and demand that the Parliament be dissolved and that new early elections be announced.
The commission for assessing the totalitarian Communist regime in Moldova was set up by presidential decree on December 14, 2009. Under the decree, the commission will make a study, bring together documents in a collection and prepare an analytical report with assessments of the totalitarian Communist regime.