Residents of Raciula, Calarasi, recall with tears how Soviet forces tried to shut down their local monastery 66 years ago. Armed with pitchforks, shovels, and stones, villagers defended the religious site for...

On the night of July 5-6, 1949, the Soviet regime deported tens of thousands of people, including women, children and the elderly, to Siberia, where they were taken to concentration camps and...