Prime Minister Dorin Recean said that during the first wave of deportations in 1941, on the night of June 13, innocent people were taken away from their homes, separated from their loved ones and sent to the most remote regions of the former USSR. Many of them never returned and the lives of those repressed changed forever. According to him, the suffering of those people and the injustice to which they were subjected must never be forgotten, IPN reports.
“It was the first episode of a series of repression to which hundreds of thousands of people living on the current territory of the Republic of Moldova were subjected, regardless of their ethnicity,” stated Dorin Recean.
The head of the executive said that during July, when the 75th anniversary of the second wave of deportations is celebrated, a number of events dedicated to the commemoration of the victims of Stalinist deportations and repression will be staged.
“We have the duty to keep alive their memory and the suffering to which they were unjustly subjected. Deported thousands of miles away, these people have preserved their dignity and identity, leaving behind life lessons that we must learn so that such things do not happen again. This is also why we are building a European Moldova that will eventually lead us irreversibly to a space of freedom, peace, well-being and security of tomorrow,” noted the official.
In total, there were three waves of mass deportations from Moldova: in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951.
