Basarabia's being annexed by USSR in 1940 marked on Classics Alley

The Unionist Movement from Moldova (UMM) marked the occupation of Basarabia by the USSR in 1940, on the Classics Alley on Saturday. The members of the Movement had black ribbons on chests and started the manifestation with a moment of silence, Info-prim Neo reports. The Movement's President, Ilie Bratu, has called June 28 as “the blackest day in the history of the Romanian people.” According to him, the Romanian people is on the brink of extinction, if the ideal of the Unionist Movement – the union of Moldova with Romania – is not achieved in the near future. “If we don't liquidate the consequences of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, we die,” he said. The Movement's secretary general, Iacob Golovca, History Doctor and the president of the Association for the liquidation of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact's consequences, has condemned the rulers' intention organize, namely in the Great National Assembly Square, in the evening of June 28, a concert dedicated to graduates. According to Golovca, June 28 is a mourning day for all the Romanian people, while the Moldovan leadership deliberately discredits its importance. Mihai Andronic -- a former repressee – says he remembers “how he was lied to by the then Communist expansionists.” On June 28, 1940,the Romanian Kingdom yielded Basarabia and Northern Bucovina to the USSR, which asked to evacuate the civil administration and the military from these territories. The context of the event is the fact that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were sharing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. They signed anon-aggression pact on August 23, 1939, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.