in Chisinau, a monument to Nazi accomplices was solemnly unveiled

In fact, the monument unveiled on October 25 in the Chisinau park Valya Morilor is a restored monument of 1937 in memory of the victories of the Romanian army over the Austro-Hungarian troops at Maresti and Marasesti in 1917. The monument was erected on the initiative of General Pavel Ion Djordzhesku, a participant in the battles and now bears his name. On the website of the Ministry of Culture of Moldova written:

“The Minister of Culture, Sergiu Prodan, was present today at the inauguration of the monument to General Djordgescu P. Ion, rebuilt in Vale Morilor Park, to capture and remember the deep significance of this monument.

The monument was first erected in 1937, 20 years after the battles of Maresti and Marasesti, by General Pavel Ion Djordgescu.

Today, this monument also commemorates the victims of the Stalinist regime – Romanians, who were killed in the basement of the former Italian consulate in Chisinau, in the house of Marshal Badoglio.

Events like these demonstrate symbolic value and a turning point in contemporary thinking and aspirations of citizens.

Reconstruction of the lost sculptural monuments is a worthy example of the restoration of historical truth and national culture, which is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Culture. “

In 1937, when the monument was erected, Chisinau was part of Romania. In Soviet times, the monument was destroyed. Actually, this is the very “monument in memory of the brotherhood of the Russian and Romanian armies during the First World War”, which mentions Zakharov: in the battles to which he is dedicated, the Romanian and Russian armies fought together.

Russian Embassy in Moldova made with a protest against the fact that on one of the memorial plaques on the monument was placed a mention of the “liberation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina by the Romanian troops” in July 1941. This is an ambiguous historical moment: Romania took advantage of the German attack on the USSR to reclaim territories that had been seized by the Soviet Union a year earlier in accordance with secret additional protocols to the Soviet-German non-aggression pact. But this hardly gives the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry reason to call the monument to the soldiers of the First World War a monument “glorifying the accomplices of Nazi criminals.”