The curriculum for the optional subject to study the repression committed by the communist totalitarian occupation regime in the twentieth century, intended for ninth and tenth-twelfth graders, was approved at the meeting of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, IPN reports.

According to the president of the Association of Former Deportees and Political Prisoners of Moldova Alexandru Postica, the optional subject derives from the History of Romanians and Universal History and Education for Society disciplines. The goal is to ensure better understanding by students of the phenomenon of repression at local, regional and international levels.

The optional subject comes to contribute to achieving Moldova’s educational ideal stipulated in the Education Code, namely to train personalities with a spirit of initiative, capable of self-development, who possess not only a system of knowledge and skills necessary for employment, but also independence of opinion and action, being open to intercultural dialogue in the context of the assumed national and universal values.

According to Alexandru Postica, the initiative was launched in 2022, being supported by the community of historians and history teachers in Moldova. “It is a good beginning of the commemorative year, when we celebrate 75 years since the second wave of deportations of Bessarabians to the Soviet Gulag,” Alexandru Postica wrote on his Facebook page.