On the evening of Saturday, July 5, at 8:00 p.m., the Government of Moldova will inaugurate the exhibition “State Terror in Soviet Moldova: Scale, Victims, and Perpetrators” in Chisinau’s Great National Assembly Square. President Maia Sandu, Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu, Prime Minister Dorin Recean, along with historians, cultural figures, ministers, and members of Parliament, will attend the event.
It marks the third edition of the exhibition, which features two reconstructed railway cars similar to those used during the deportations to Siberia. The installation will remain on display until July 27. The other will focus on the 1946–1947 famine, presented through immersive multimedia content, including a virtual reality segment.
At 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, actors from the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre will lead a candlelighting ceremony at the exhibition site.
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The exhibition will be open daily between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., accompanied by several special programs. On July 13, visitors can watch archival documentary films detailing Soviet repression. On July 20, authorities will feature the movie “Siberia din oase” by director Leontina Vatamanu. On July 25, the Vasile Alecsandri Theatre from Balti will stage “Tema pentru acasa”, a play inspired by Stalinist deportations.
The Soviet mass deportations of July 6–9, 1949, remain the most forced displacement in Moldova’s modern history. Authorities deported 11,281 families—a total of 35,796 people, including 11,889 children, 14,033 women, and 9,864 men—using cattle cars.