The organization “Antipact Molotov-Ribbentrop” on Saturday, August 22, will hold its annual rally dedicated to the condemnation of the agreement signed 71 years ago, on 23 August 1939, between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, as a result of which the current territory of Moldova was annexed to the latter. The rally will start at 11:00 at the Classics Alley in Chisinau and at 14:00 its participants will proceed to the Russian Embassy to hold a protest. “We expect the rally to be joined by people who identify themselves as Romanians and plead for the return of Bessarabia to the bosom of Mother Romania”, said Iacob Golovca, the chairman of the organization. Traditionally, the rally will end with a resolution, which will be submitted to Parliament, the President's Office and the Government, as well as to the embassies and international organizations accredited in Chisinau. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed between the Soviet and German foreign Ministers Veaceslav Molotov and Joachim Ribbentrop, was a non-aggression treaty concluded between the USSR and Nazi Germany right before the start of WWII. The treaty came with a secret protocol which divided Northern and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. As a result, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, parts of Romania at that time, were forcefully annexed to the Soviet Union. The Soviet propaganda called the act a “liberation from bourgeois Romania”.