Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici’s patriotic songs moved troubled souls of tens of thousands of people

The songs "Rasai", "Reaprindeti candela", "Pentru ea", "Eminescu", "Trei culori", "Clopotul invierii", "Pace lumii", "Suveranitatea", "Maluri de Prut" aroused the freshly acknowledged national pride and thirst for freedom in the hearts of thousands of people. Eyewitnesses say that at all the meetings of the legendary years 1989-1991, Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, accompanied by guitar, moved with their songs the troubled souls of tens of thousands of people. According to those that created the Republic of Moldova, the adoption of the Independence Act was hastened by a group of people whose names will remain in the annals of the country’s new history. Singers Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici are among these people as they made and make the époque in the yesterday, today and tomorrow present of the Romanian culture on the periphery of the cruelest empire, as writer Gheorghe Voda said. Doina’s mother Eugenia Marin told Info-Prim Neo that Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici dedicated their lives and wok to an inspiring ideal - to preserve the Romanian spirituality. By their songs, they paid tribute to the Romanian language, tricolor, ancestors’ traditions, the sacred ideals: God, mother, language, nation, Eminescu, sovereignty, peace etc. They fought with their song and their pure soul, not with the gun. “On October 30, 1992, a stupid road accident took their lives. Thousands of people from both banks of the Prut bid farewell to them on their last road,” Eugenia Marin said. Moldova’s first President Mircea Snegur has told the Agency that Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodotovici dedicated themselves to the country and contributed to the national rebirth and liberation through their work. “It is a misfortune that they passed away so early as we still needed their effort, intelligence and knowledge to bring what we started in 1989-1991 to an end,” Mircea Snegur said. Writer and poet Ion Hadarca said that this couple became a symbol of the awakening of the national conscience. Their suffering and tragedy made them a symbol of national awakening. Poet Grigore Vieru said that “as God disappeared in the abyss of the Universe and our nation’s suffering continues to vibrate on the four strings of the rebel Porumbescu Ballad, the famous Doina and Ion melted away in the suffering of this land and we, for our part, see even clearer our injured being in the mirror of their incomparable talent”.