Muzeul Memoriei Neamului (
Romanian
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; ''Museum of National Memory'') is a
private museum
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Overview
Unlike a public or governmental museum, a scientific monitoring and systematic documentation is n ...
in
Chișinău
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,
Moldova
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, dedicated to the victims of the
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force. Those regions, with a total area of and a population of 3,776 ...
, and commemorating
anti-communist
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resistance in the region.
Overview
Founded by the former political prisoner and dissident
Vadim Pirogan, the museum is located on ''str. Costache Negruzzi no 4'' and is supported by the
Association of the Victims of the Communist Regime and of the War Veterans of the Romanian Army, a Moldovan
NGO
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.
In the 1990s,
Mihai Ursache, a member in the 1940s of the resistance organization "
Arcașii lui Ștefan
The National Organization of Bessarabia "Arcașii lui Ștefan" (Romanian language, Romanian:''Organizația Națională din Basarabia "Arcașii lui Ștefan"'') was one of the organized Anti-Sovietism, anti-Soviet groups in Bessarabia right aft ...
" in occupied
Bessarabia
Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...
, founded a small museum in two rooms at 52 Kogălniceanu Street. The association was disbanded and its exhibits stored in the basement of the National History Museum. After 3–4 years, Vadim Pirogan, a former political prisoner condemned by the Soviets in 1941 to five years of forced labor at camps in the
Irkutsk
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region, decided to rebuild the museum together with Nicholas Caireac in a 70 m
2 room that they rented.
On June 30, 2010, the
First Vlad Filat Cabinet, decided to create a separate ''Museum of Victims of Communism'';
About 40,000 persons were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on July 6, 1949, IPN Press Agency, 6.7.2010
/ref> however, such a museum has not been inaugurated.
Gallery
Image:Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Patrascu.jpg, Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Pătraşcu
See also
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References
External links
Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
website at ''memoria.ro''
Museums in Chișinău
Private collections in Europe
Military and war museums
Museums established in 2002
History museums in Moldova
Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
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