Archives contain terrifying images about communist dictatorship, historian Gheorghe Cojocaru

Documents in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior, the Security and Intelligence Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, contain terrifying images of what the communist dictatorship truly was, says Gheorghe Cojocaru, president of the Commission for researching the communist totalitarian regime in Moldova. The historian participated Monday, June 28, in the opening of the memorial stone in the place where a monument dedicated to victims of Soviet occupation and communist regime will be built. During the meeting, he said the Commission managed to access a series of documents which show the horrors of communism, the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The academic community and civil society have been waiting for years such an initiative of the political class, to part once and for all with the communist past. Finally, our commission did this. We appreciate Mihai Ghimpu’s brave idea as one that meets our spiritual emancipation needs and the necessity to integrate in the free world, in the European Union”, he stated. He thinks President’s initiative is in agreement with a series of resolutions of the European Parliament, of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, of OSCE, regarding the exhaustive parting with anything related to communist dictatorship, communist crimes and atrocities. Gheorghe Cojocaru is curious why, during 20 years of independence, no writers or academicians had access to these documents, which prove the crimes of communism. However, he stressed that intellectuals and artists condemned the regime in their works anyway. June 28 was decreed Soviet Occupation Day in Moldova. PM Vlad Filat laid flowers at the memorial stone in the Railway Station Square, while the 2 other AEI leaders Serafim Urechean and Marian Lupu didn’t attend the commemorative actions.