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Remembrance in Time
the soviet system of access to the food products. According to the statistic data
accumulated by the Commission, as a result of the famine, circa 200 thousand people
deceased. The guilt for the deceases in mass because of the famine is incumbent both on
I.Stalin and on the soviet leadership from Kremlin, and on the Office CC of PC(b)
throughout the Union for the Moldavian SSR, president – V. Ivanov, Central Committee
of PC(b) from Moldavia, led by the first-secretary N. Salogor, MSSR’s Council of
Ministers, led by its president, N. Coval, by the commissioner of USSR’s Council of
Ministers, for the collections of cereals in MSSR, on A. Sîci, on other representatives
within the party and administration, which decided the simple persons’ destiny. Namely,
the peaks of the Communist Party make themselves guilty of inhumanly requisitioning
the last agricultural products, remained through the attics of the houses, leaving the
hungry families with no piece of bread on the table, which constituted the main cause of
falling ill and dying in mass. Through the policy promoted in the years 1946-1947, as
well as in the following years, the Soviet authorities wholly ignored the human being’s
life and right to life, the fundamental moral norms, compulsory for the institutions of a
State. The hunger from MSSR was a phenomenon provoked through the policy of the
communist regime, was a monstrous crime that it itself is directly guilty. For this crime,
wilfully perpetrated against the peaceful population, the children and old men, the elder
persons, of all ethnicities and confessions, the communist totalitarian regime must be
morally, politically and judicially condemned.
The activity developed by the Commission for studying and assessing the totalitarian
communist regime is (also) an opportunity for rendering homage to the personalities which
represented our honour and dignity in those times of terror. The first anti-Soviet resistance
manifestations were registered soon after Bessarabia’s occupation, on 28 June 1940. A
testimony in this respect are the resistance actions of the members of the clandestine
organization of some youth from Orhei, who militated against the soviet occupant, for
defending the freedom, Romanian language and our national values. During the years 1945-
1953, on the territory of the districts Bravicea, Călăraşi, Corneşti, Chişcăreni, Chiperceni,
Orhei, Răspopeni, Rezina, Susleni, Sângerei, Teleneşti a considerable number of armed
actions against the State institutions and local activists, undertaken by the group members
led by the famous Filimon Bodiu, by the clandestine organizations „Armata Neagră” and
„Partidul Democrat Agrar”. One of the greatest and better organized anti-soviet resistance
formations in the rural areas, „Partidul Democrat Agrar (Agrarian Democratic Party)”,
activated (in the years 1950-1953) under the leadership of Simion Zlatan, originating in
the village Popenchi, RîbniŃa, and Vasile Odobescu, originating in the village Cuizăuca,
Chiperceni. At Soroca, the organization „Arcaşii lui Ştefan (Ştefan’s Archers)” was set
up, in the districts Chişinău, Hânceşti and Cărpineni activated another anti-communist
conspiracy organization – „Partidul LibertăŃii (Party of the Liberty)”, and at BălŃi –
„Uniunea Democratică a LibertăŃii (Democratic Union of the Liberty)”. The warriors,
fallen prey to the repression organs were condemned to death or to long privation of
liberty, and the communist propaganda aimed at compromising and at erasing their names
from our collective memory. The moment came today to bow our front in memory of
these simple people, whose effort and sacrifice, manifested in the unequal, deathly grip
with the communist regime for human liberty and dignity is impressive.