Chisinau.  Chisinau organization of war veterans intend to restore the cemetery of heroes in the Botanica sector, where presumably more than 3 thousand people of various nationalities, who fell in the Second World War, are buried.

One of the heads of the initiative group, set up by the organizations of veterans for the reconstruction of the cemetery, Vasile Zaiat recalled at a news conference in Infotag on Wednesday that the cemetery functioned from 1918 to 1959.

“After this the cemetery was eliminated and the Institute of Pulmonology and Phtisiology and a dwelling house was built on its place and a Jumbo trade house has been recently erected there”, he said.

Zaiat asserts that the initiative group had data that 1250 soldiers of the Russian Army (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles and Moldovans) were buried there. Besides 60 Frenchmen, 25 Czechs and Slovenians, 70 Greeks, 12 Poles, 110 Romanians were buried there, war prisoners from Germany, Austria, Italy and other countries found their last refuge there.

“It is not just that the graves were profaned and the memory about the perished was consigned in oblivion, he considers.

In veterans’ words, it is not everything clear with the sale of a plot, where the Institute of Pulmonology was situated, in 2007. This plot suddenly became not profitable and dangerous for people’s health.

“The building of the institute was pulled down and sold unbelievably quickly, Zaiat said.

The veterans think that the authorities are ready to realize, what happened, and to take necessary measures for pulling down buildings, erected on the place of the cemetery and to restore this cemetery. 
    
Many veterans told Infotag that only a cemetery can be on that place. In their words, four workers perished during the construction of the housing complex and two – during the construction of the trade center. In this connection they reminded of the explosion of a gas cylinder in the Jumbo, where many people suffered.

“It is a sign that this place is not designed for buildings, but for a cemetery”, the veterans said.