The victims of the second wave of deportations of 1949 are commemorated today, July 6. “Hardly will we find a family that hasn't been marked by this trauma – the Soviet deportations”, says historian Viorica Olaru-Cemirtan, who believes that the communist regime should be condemned and everything related to it should be forbidden. “We should state openly that this regime was criminal and acted against human beings, against the national identity, against the most worthy people, because it wanted to destroy the elite that could put up resistance. They wanted to create a 'new man', the 'Homo Sovieticus', and in our case they wanted to make an even more weird creature, 'Homo Moldovanus', to which we owe the consequences that we have today”, the historian told Info-Prim Neo. Viorica Olaru-Cemirtan went on to add that effective measures need to be taken so that the events related to the deportations become known to the general public, including through the educational system and through culture – films, theater, plastic arts. Historian Iurie Colesnic says the deported people were taken away in order to frighten the Bessarabian society. “Today we have the obligation to complete some things. There are many people of whom nothing is known because the archives are closed and it is impossible to proceed. We need to pronounce a firm verdict”, added the historian. Iurie Colesnic says the country which “orchestrated” the deportations, Russia, should assume responsibility for that, like Germany did in the case of the second world war. Russia is the country that profited from the labor of those people, so some solutions should be south for the deportees to receive compensation from this country, he argued. Iurie Colesnic also believes that Moldova should change its laws so that the former deportees should be able to recover their lost property, without having to produce certificates or other documents which weren't issued in the least at that time. Today it is 61 years since the second wave of deportations. The first wave took place on 12-13 June 1941.