More than 2,600 persons from Chisinau municipality – former deportees and political prisoners – will receive by 700 lei in financial assistance on the occasion of the day of remembrance for the victims of the second wave of Stalinist deportations of July 6, 1949, IPN reports.

The money can be collected from the branches of BC “Moldindconbank” on the presentation of the identity card.

The deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina were a form of political repression implemented by the Soviet authorities. The exact number of those who were affected by this type of repression is not known, but it is projected that several hundred thousand people were deported between June 28, 1940 and March 5, 1953. There were three waves of mass deportations – in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951 - and the deportees totaled about 58,000.