The first wave of deportations, 81 years since the tragic event

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Posted by: Cornelia Stefoglu

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12 June 2022 / 09:01

The first wave of deportations, 81 years since the tragic event

It turns 81 years since the first wave of deportations. On the night of June 12-13, more than 30,000 Romanians from Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were forcibly picked up and taken to Siberia.

The deportation operation began on the night of June 12-13, 1941, around two o'clock, and encompassed the territories annexed by the USSR from Romania in June 1940. in the middle of the night, taking households by surprise. "Get ready in a quarter of an hour!" This was the order given to the Bessarabians in fear and despair.

They were allowed to take only 10 kg of luggage per person, but often everything that was more valuable or useful was confiscated by those who picked it up in the middle of the night. People were being loaded into trucks and taken to the train station. There they were loaded with goods, without water, food, crowded 100 people each, in wagons with a capacity several times smaller, according to jurnal.md

The deported contingent was distributed as follows: the head of the family, arrested, was isolated from his wife and children and taken to the forced labor camp, the GULAG, or shot. The other members of the family were sent to Siberia or Kazakhstan. The deportees, from children to the elderly, were assigned to work in the enterprises of the forestry industry, in sovkhozes and in craft cooperatives.

After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, people were allowed to return home, but another difficult followed for those who decided to return home.

In 2013, a monument in memory of the victims of communist deportations was inaugurated in Chisinau. Called the "Train of Pain", the monument sculpted by Master Iurie Platon is located in the Railway Station Square.

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