Tag: deportation
Moldova Declassifies 20,000 More Deportee Files in Tribute to Victims of Soviet Repression
Authorities have declassified and transferred another 20,000 deportee files to the National Archives Agency. The handover took place during a solemn ceremony, where participants observed a minute of silence in memory of...
Stalinist Deportations in Moldova: A Legacy of Suffering
The first Stalinist deportation began at 2:30 a.m. on June 13, 1941. Soviet authorities forced nearly 22,000 people from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina—mainly “kulaks,” priests, intellectuals, and party members—onto freight trains bound...
Deportation of Sputnik Moldova Chief Sparks Diplomatic Tensions Between Moldova and Russia
Vitaliy Denisov, the head of Sputnik Moldova, was deported from the Republic of Moldova yesterday, accompanied by a ten-year ban on re-entering the country. This announcement was made public earlier in the...
“74 Years Later: Commemorating the Second Wave of Stalinist Deportations from Basarabia” Exhibition by the National Bank of Moldova
On July 6th, starting from the year 1990, the Republic of Moldova commemorates the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism. This year marks the 74th anniversary of the second and...
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO! Watch the first interview with one of the Turkish Teachers deported from Moldova
Hüseyin Bayraktar was a Turkish Teacher at Orizont High School in Chișinău. He had a normal life, a job that he liked, a wife and 2 children. On the morning of the...