PREMIER CHICU CALLS NOT TO FORGET “DARK SUMMER” OF 1949

Moldova must not forget that dark summer of 1949 – the summer of deportations of people from the country, Prime Minister Ion Chicu addressed today a message at the commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the second wave of deportations.

The Premier reminded that in July 1949, in just several hours, more than 35,000 people were got onboard railway carriages and carried to forced labor camps.

“These were 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”, the address reads.

According to Chicu, “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 Premier believes.

The official said that “we should diminish the populism, political, ethnical and religious struggles and boost the kindness. This is what we need now.”