The descendants of the victims of the Soviet regime gathered at a commemoration rally, organized by the National Reunification Platform, demanding through a resolution for the authorities in Chisinau and Bucharest to declare June 28th as a national day of mourning, reports IPN.
“We, the descendants of those who were overrun on June 28, 1940 by the Russian empire, shot in basements and thrown by the thousands into lime pits, deported to the ‘ice Siberias’ forever, killed by starvation, torn from our ancestral nest, subjected to political reprisals, persecuted for belonging to the Romanian nation, forcibly Russified, we ask the leaders of the two Romanian states of Chisinau and Bucharest to declare June 28 a national day of mourning,” states the adopted document.
At the rally, the act of Soviet occupation was strongly condemned, described as a tragic moment that marked the beginning of genocide and systematic political repression against the Bessarabian Romanians. Those present affirmed that the regime imposed by the USSR sought the destruction of the Romanian identity through violent and ideological means, with effects that are still felt today.
“85 years ago, chauvinistic and imperialistic Russia occupied the Romanian national territories east of the Prut, establishing a terrorist regime that practiced genocide and killed over 500 thousand innocent compatriots. They lie throughout the imperial space without graves, without names, without crosses, without a candle,” specifies the cited source.
According to the signatories of the resolution, the serious problems faced by the Republic of Moldova – economic stagnation, identity crisis, geopolitical insecurity – are directly consequences of the Russo-Soviet occupation.
The participants reiterated their commitment to keeping the memory of the victims alive and stated that the recovery of the Romanian identity represents “the only real path to historical healing, to overcoming past traumas, and to full integration into the Romanian and European space.”
In the same context, the resolution supports the participation of Romanians from the East of Prut on a single electoral list in the parliamentary elections of September 28, considering this action as an important step towards national unity and breaking away from the Soviet past.
“In the name of historical truth, the memory of the victims of the Russian occupation regime, and our Romanian and European future, free and prosperous, we adopt this Resolution and call on all citizens with a consciously assumed Romanian national consciousness to unite, to get involved in the battle for national reintegration and the recovery of our Romanian and European destiny,” is further stated in the resolution of the rally organized by the National Reintegration Platform.
