A mourning march in memory of the victims of the totalitarian communist regime, installed in Bessarabia after June 28, 1940, will be mounted by the Union Council in Chisinau on June 28. The event will start in the square of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and will end with a performance of folk and patriotic music in Europe Square. The members of the Union Council called on all those who feel themselves Romanians to join the march.
In a news conference at IPN, Vitalia Pavlichenko, head of the National Liberal Party (PNL) that is a member of the Union Council, said that a number of events have been organized since 2012 with the aim of sensitizing the Romanians from both banks of the Prut River to the horrors caused by the totalitarian communist regime.
After the mourning march, a group of the Union Council will go to the Embassy of Russia and will leave a letter addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin there. The Russian leader will be asked to stop pursuing aggressive policies in Moldova, to pull out the Russian troops from Moldova’s eastern districts and to stop supporting the separatist regime in the Transnistrian regime.
Vitalia Pavlichenko welcomed the holding of the extraordinary congress of the National Liberal Party of Romania on June 28. Giving the example of the year 1995, when the Romanian parties signed the Snagov Declaration by which they pledged to support the European course, the Union Council proposed the Romanian political class to now sign a Snagov-2 Declaration “for Bessarabia”, by which to pledge to support the democratic and pro-European course of the country.
PNL secretary general Ion Margine called on the representatives of the political parties and civil organizations that consider themselves national Romanian organizations to join the June 28 march. All the participants will be dressed in black in sign of mourning for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the totalitarian communist regime.
Chairman of the Nistru War Veterans Association “Tiras-Tighina” Anatolie Caraman noted that during the events staged earlier the police didn’t appropriately fulfill their duties. In this connection, he called upon the police to ensure security during the June 28 march.
On June 28, 1940, Romania received an ultimatum from the Soviet Union, by which it was told to withdraw its civil administration and the Romanian army from the territory between the Prut and Nistru Rivers, known as Bessarabia, and from the northern part of Bucovina. If the withdrawal hadn’t taken place within four days, Romania would have faced a war.
