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77 years since the largest wave of deportations: Ungheni commemorates its victims on Monday, at the Martyrs' Cross

The Ungheni municipal town hall calls on residents, on Monday, 6 July, at 10 a.m., to the Troița Martirilor Neamului (Martyrs of the Nation Cross) to commemorate the victims of the Stalinist deportations. The date is no accident: on the night of 5 to 6 July 1949, the Soviet regime lifted thousands of families from their homes across Bessarabia — the largest wave of deportations. In the Ungheni district alone, the „Book of Memory” gathers around 2,900 names of victims of totalitarianism, from more than 60 localities.