They were buried

The remains of 436 innocent residents of Tiraspol were reburied the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in Tiraspol. One of the death-penalty case graves was found this summer during repairs at the Powder Cellar of the Tiraspol Fortress. The experts found that the found remains belong to the citizens, who were repressed and shot in 1937-1938. Today, after eighty years, their names were recollected. The first persons of the state, representatives of religious confessions, relatives of the deceased, townspeople took part in mourning events.

According to official data, more than five thousand people were executed on Pridnestrovian land. How many Pridnestrovians have become victims of repression in fact, to this day remains unknown. October 30, townspeople come to the mass grave to commemorate their memory, where 800 executed citizens were buried. The remains were also reburied here. President Vadim Krasnoselsky appealed to the citizens on the occasion of the memorable date. The President expressed his gratitude to the volunteers for the work they carried out to find and restore the names of those who were shot, who for decades were in obscurity.

Deputy of the Supreme Council, Chairman of the Committee on Public Associations, Sport, Information and Youth Policy, Igor Buga, together with representatives of the volunteer movement, took part in the search works. Igor Buga assured that the search works will continue, and the names of all those who were innocently executed will be restored and placed on a special information resource of the Internet so that relatives can find them.

The Work to recollect the names of those killed was carried out jointly with representatives of the State Archives of the Republic of Moldova. Only there the data on executions conducted by the NKVD have been kept. The head of the State Archive Service of the Republic of Moldova, Ion Varta, took part in the funeral ceremony.

Prayer commemoration of the deceased was carried out by representatives of three religious denominations. The President Vadim Krasnoselsky, Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Shcherba, representatives of the republican and city authorities, public organizations, Tiraspol residents laid flowers to the mass grave of victims of political repression. In memory of them, not far from the burial place, today the stone of the future Orthodox chapel was laid and consecrated.