Liberals lay flowers at Commemorative Stone in central square

Members of the Liberal Party, alongside party supporters, laid flowers this morning at the Commemorative Stone in the Great National Assembly Square, in remembrance of the events on June 28, 1940, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Today, we, who are the children of the victims of occupation, are fighting among us. Some fight to defend the truth, to have where to lay a flower, others fight against the [Commemorative] stone, against the truth. Perhaps one day God will hit them with a club so hard they will give up this humiliation policy”, declared Liberal Party leader Mihai Ghimpu. According to the Liberal leader, the Commemorative Stone will be replaced by a monument that has been planned long ago, but only after the deportees’ monument is installed in the Railway Station Square. “Nobody will move the stone from this place until that monument is raised, not even with the help of courts”, said Mihai Ghimpu. “June 28, 1940 is the day of Soviet occupation of Basarabia, a day we commemorate it every year. The people have been fooled for 200 years by Communists and Socialists and their anti-Romanian policy”, said Gandraman Simion, one of the participants. “72 years ago began the occupation, not the liberation of the Basarabian people. We don’t remember those events with joy for they brought little good and started the famine, the deportations and our subjugation by the Soviets”, says Maria Herta, wife of a former deportee and PL supporter. “Only the Party of Liberals has the dignity to speak the truth and this [Commemorative] Stone symbolizes the tears and blood of those who suffered as a result of the Soviet occupation in the 40s”, added Sava Herta, former deportee from Siberia. On June 28, 1940, Russian troops entered the territory of Basarabia, as permitted by the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty of Non-Aggression, signed between Germany and Russia on August 23, 1939. In 2010, when Mihai Ghimpu acted as interim President, he decreed June 28 as the Day of Soviet Occupation. On July 12, the Constitutional Court annulled his decree.