Government announces launch of train exhibition in PMAN

On 5 July, starting at 8:00 PM, the Government will organize the inauguration of the train exhibition 'State Terror in Soviet Moldova. Scope, Victims and Perpetrators' in the Great National Assembly Square (PMAN). The event will be attended by President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu, Speaker Igor Grosu, Prime Minister Dorin Recean, historians, culture people, ministers, and deputies.

The exhibition, now in its third edition, will include two train cars similar to those in which people were deported to Siberia and will run until July 27th. In one of the cars, documents, photographs, books, and various objects illustrating the experience of all those repressed by the Soviet regime will be displayed, while in the second car, visitors can view an exhibition dedicated to the famine of 1946-1947 and more multimedia content. Additionally, visitors will be able to view a virtual exhibition through VR technology.

On 6 July, from 8:30 PM, around the exhibition in the Great National Assembly Square, citizens are invited to participate, alongside actors from the 'Mihai Eminescu' National Theater, in a commemoration where they will light candles in memory of the victims of the communist regime's deportations.

The exhibition's program includes, in addition to daily visits from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, several special events. On 13 July, thematic films from the National Archives reserves about Soviet repressions will be presented, and on July 20, the feature film 'Siberia in the Bones', directed by Leontina Vatamanu, will be screened. 

The exhibition is organized by the Government of the Republic of Moldova - State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture, with the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Archives Agency, and the General Directorate for the Administration of Government Buildings.

The mass deportation from July 6-9, 1949, was the most extensive on the current territory of the Republic of Moldova. The operation encompassed 11,281 families, with the forcibly relocated contingent in cattle cars comprising 35,796 people, including 11,889 children, 14,033 women, and 9,864 men.