Stalinism can be regarded as huge contempt for human nature. The Stalinists disrespected the people, said experts invited to the scientific conference “Salinization and destalinization: historical facts, myths, historical memory” which brought together historians and representatives of the museum community, who study the Stalinist deportations and repression, IPN reports.
Doctor of History Anatol Țăranu, university lecture, in his presentation entitled “Postwar famine as a model of Stalinizing Bessarabia”, said that the Moldovan Romanians from Bessarabia paid blood tribute for the fact that they were Romanians. “They had to turn from Romanians into what Octavian Țîcu later named homo-Moldovans. That was the policy pursed by the Stalinist regime and this was successful somehow, regrettably. You should know that the fear imbedded in the minds, the souls of the Moldovan Romanians in Bessarabia together with the famine made so that this population became inert and almost didn’t react to all the brutalities and brutal constraint policies applied by the Soviet regime. In the Baltic republics, the riposte to communist, to the Soviet regime continued unto the start of the 1950s. Here, in Bessarabia, the severe famine demoralized the Moldovans. The fear was so deeply imbedded that they became absolutely unable to raise and protest. Namely due to this, the Stalinist regime caused this famine and did so that Bessarabia was de-Romanized at a fast pace,” stated Anatol Țăranu.
For his part, Doctor of History Octavian Țîcu, university lecturer, in his presentation titled “Stalinization of Eastern Europe: paradigms, processes, consequences, (1944-1953)”, said that the persistence of Stalinism was determined by its multiple effects on societies in which it was implemented and continues to be a phantom in the post-Soviet space. “What is most regrettable is that the portrait of Stalin was carried on Ștefan cel Mare Blvd in the current conditions in our country, on May 9 this year,” stated Octavian Țîcu.
The participants in the conference agreed that more discussions and historical facts are needed to understand the Stalinist policy, especially when it is ascertained that neo-Stalinism takes roots in the former Soviet space.
The scientific conference is held on June 28-29 and was organized by the Institute of History of the Moldova State University in cooperation with the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy, the National Museum of History of Moldova and the Balti State University “Alecu Russo”, with support from the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. The event was staged in accordance with the partnership protocol signed by the Institute of History of the Moldova State University and the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism and is a joint effort to learn the history of the Romanian community in the totalitarian period.
