Grief Train exhibition ends in Moldova today

Chisinau, 31 July /MOLDPRES/ - Today is the last day when the Grief Train exhibition can be visited on the Great National Assembly Square (PMAN). The exhibition commemorates the victims of the biggest operation of Stalinist deportations, which took place 75 years ago.   

The Grief Train exhibition was opened on 6 July and is at its second edition. Besides objects of the deported families, photos, books about the tragic events, this year, visitors were able to see multimedia content, digital and graphic elements. Also, visitors can find the names of the deported relatives in the Memory Book.  

As many as 36,000 people or over 11,000 families were hit in the wake of the Stalinist deportations from 6-9 July 1949. This operation was aimed at boosting the process of the agriculture’s collectivization, as the peasants were refusing to be members of collective farms. Following the deportations, the homes, assets and lands of the deported people were sold or delivered to collective farms.