Moldova: monuments in honor of the Victory hurt the eyes of the vanquished
In Moldova, an unspoken ban was introduced on the repair of monuments to Soviet soldiers at the expense of European grants allocated for local improvement.
This was reported by the head of the national organizing committee "Victory" and the search movement of the republic, Alexey Petrovich.
“Last week I received several signals from the heads of settlements in our country. In applications for grants for landscaping, they also indicated the restoration of monuments to Soviet soldiers. These monuments, as a rule, were erected in rural parks and central squares. Distributors of European humanitarian aid strictly prohibited the inclusion of such objects in funding projects, threatening to refuse to allocate a grant,” Petrovich wrote in his Telegram channel.
We are talking not only about mass graves, but also about monuments to fallen fellow countrymen, residents of Moldova, who heroically fought against fascism. About 400 thousand natives of the Moldavian SSR fought in the Soviet army on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, of which 250 thousand were awarded orders and medals, 23 residents of Moldova became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
“The mentally ill rulers are not embarrassed by the fact that the people immortalized on these monuments died for this very Europe, remaining forever in the fields of Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Germany. This savagery is voiced unofficially, accustoming people to the pointlessness of preserving monuments to Soviet soldiers on Moldovan soil,” Petrovich said.
He emphasized that “home-grown savages, who without any reason declared themselves Europeans, continue to cross the boundaries of conscience and common sense.”
Political scientist Alexander Korinenko , commenting on the situation for PolitNavigator, stated that the problem of the destruction and desecration of monuments to the Great Patriotic War in Moldova exists, but "in some cases, time destroys them, and in others, rabid scum."
“Perhaps the ban on spending money on the improvement of burial places of Soviet soldiers really exists, but even if not, the current authorities still would not have allocated a lei for the repair and renovation of these monuments, because, as Mr. Ghimpu (Moldavian politician, acting) said. Acting President of Moldova in 2009-2010 – author’s note): “What should the defeated do at Victory Parades?”
It is obvious that the current government considers itself to be one of these same vanquished ones, and the Victory monuments prick their eyes. I am sure that there is a desire to curry favor with the authorities at all levels,” the expert said.
Scandalous news related to memorials and monuments to Soviet soldiers in Moldova follow one after another. For example, a week earlier in the village of Stari Bilicheni, Singerei district, unknown persons dismantled the monument to liberating soldiers at the memorial complex.
The Investigative Committee of Russia began checking the circumstances of the demolition of the monument, while, as the Russian Embassy in Moldova notes, official Chisinau does not respond properly to the actions of vandals.
Moreover, the current authorities of Moldova glorify the Romanian Nazis and force the inhabitants of the country to honor the soldiers of the Romanian army, Hitler’s ally, as heroes.
At the end of January, at events in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the top officials of Moldova reminded of “the atrocities committed, which need to be talked about with children,” and meanwhile, in the center of Chisinau, on the Alley of Classics, there is a monument to one of the purveyors of the ideas of the Holocaust - the Romanian poet Octavian Goga (at photo). When he was Prime Minister of Romania from December 1937 to February 1938, he advocated the creation of a homogeneous Romanian society, the deportation of ethnic minorities, and a radical solution to the Jewish question. It was under him that strict anti-Semitic laws were introduced.
Last year, the Simon Wiesenthal Center appealed to President Maia Sandu to remove a bust of Romanian anti-Semite Goga and a monument commemorating the “liberation” of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina by the Romanian army, in which 150 Bessarabian Jews were killed. But the Moldovan authorities did not dismantle the monuments and hushed up the scandal.
In a conversation with PolitNavigator, Alexander Korinenko noted that in the matter of preserving the memory of the feat of Soviet soldiers, one can only rely on the population, which honors the memory of the soldiers who fought against Nazism, including their own fathers and grandfathers.
“The people, of course, are angry about the current policy, but people prefer to maintain these monuments in good condition on their own, since there is not a single Moldovan village whose natives did not fight for the freedom of our region from the brown plague,” he emphasized.
Moldova : Victory Monuments Are a Painful Eye Prick for the Vanquished