The monument to be erected to commemorate the victims of the 1949 Stalinist deportations of Moldovans to Siberia will be designed after a Czech model of a monument to victims of the Communists, Info-Prim Neo reports. The monument that the Chisinau Municipality committed to build till the summer of 2009 will be a plaque on which figures of people gradually torn to pieces, rails, weapons will be. The author is the Moldovan painter Iurie Platon. The model has been presented to Chisinau's mayor Dorin Chirtoaca in a TV broadcast. According to the mayor, the monument will be raised in front of the Railway Station in Chisinau, where a commemorating foundation stone is. According to the mayor, the monument will be of bronze, but they have not yet computed the money needed. Dorin Chirtoaca says the investments will be made from municipal funds, but “we'll also seek for someone to help us because it is a large-scale project.” In 2009 it turns 60 years since the deportations of 1949. According to official statistics, there were some 22,648 deportees from Basarabia, of whom only some 10% are still alive. But the deported victims say the figures are much higher, arguing the statistics is based on the idea of a family with three members. It is known that the some deported families had 7-8 and even 14 children.