The peculiarities of the communist regime in Soviet Moldova are reflected in a volume edited by Liliana Corobca, author and researcher of communist censorship in Romania, titled “Panorama of Communism in Soviet Moldova”. The launch took place at the National History Museum and is part of the program dedicated to the Corneliu Coposu Gala.
“Panorama of Communism in Soviet Moldova” is part of a large series of works on the communist and post-communist period, called “Panorama of Communism in Romania”, “Panorama of Post-Communism in Romania” and “Panorama of Post-Communism in the Republic of Moldova”. There are four essential volumes that highlight the particularities of the communist regime in Soviet Moldova and Romania and what happened after 1989 and 1991.
“Over thirty authors, more than 30 articles summed up in this volume discuss several elements of the establishment of the communist regime, of communist policies in the MSSR, after which we discuss the harmful impact on culture, traditions and everyday life in Soviet Moldova”, said historian Sergiu Musteață, a co-author of the book.
The historian said that the volume shows the political-administrative course of new entities created and forcibly introduced into the Soviet regime. The information is presented in chronological order, from the creation of the republic with all its peculiarities and what followed after, including deportations, famine and many other things that talk about drastic actions against the population and the consequences of this policy on the inhabitants. “The feeling of fear was not directly addressed in the book, but it is visible when discussing famine, deportations, regime, collectivization, dispossession, establishment of a new regime and a new ideology. Many aspects are presented in the book which, in the form of synthesis, help the reader to quickly go through topics of general interest. These must be taken over and transferred to the educational area, because this is the only way the result of intellectual work will be able to be transmitted in the area of adequate training and information of what the communist totalitarian regime really meant”, said Sergiu Musteață.
The Corneliu Coposu Gala is organized by the Corneliu Coposu Foundation, in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the Cultural Memory Foundation, the National History Museum of Moldova, the Agency for Science and Military Memory, the Romanian Embassy in Moldova, the Museum of the Horrors of Communism of Romania, the Mereni Town Hall, the State Pedagogical University "Ion Creangă", and the Association of Former Deportees and Political Detainees of Moldova.
