Moldovan PM's message at 71st anniversary of second wave of deportations

Chisinau, 6 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today addressed a message at the commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the second wave of deportations, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

The message reads:

”We are facing the history each year, on 6 July. Even the most painful page of it. This is the day when we commemorate the victims of the biggest wave of deportations. Seventy one years have passed since then.       

In July 1949, in just several hours, more than 35,000 people were got onboard railway carriages and carried to forced labour camps. Women, children, old people. The best masters. And then it took them years to return home. Many of them did not even live till this moment. 

Those who are still living at present – the victims and the descendants of the deportees, represent the evidence of a harsh resistance. Maybe no governance will be able to recover their material and spiritual damages which they bore at that time; yet, our duty is to evoke their memory and thank them.     

What offered us this lesson of history is that, no matter the atrocities and sufferings our people went through, nobody has besmeared our dignity as yet and the love for the country does not die in a railway carriage, neither the ices of Siberia freeze it.  

The history is an incontestable proof that Moldova is created on blood and strengthened by the bones of our forerunners. We are the ones who must give continuity to the values for which they fought at that time, who should honour them, follow their ideals, be united and become stronger. 

We remain connected to this land through everything which has been before us, as well as through everything due to come next. We must keep live the memory of the past through the graves of our forefathers and bright the future through the cradles of children. We should diminish the populism, political, ethnical and religious struggles and boost the kindness. This is what we need now. This will allow us avoiding, in the long run, other dark pages in the nation’s history, similar to the tragedy from 6 July 1949.   

Moldova must not forget that dark summer.’’