Presidency of the Republic of Moldova
Seventy one years ago, on the far away 9 May 1945, the anti-Hitler coalition was gaining victory in the battle with the promoters of the most monstrous and anti-human ideology – the Nazi one. This day deserved its distinct place on the pages of the history of the 20th century, having not only an exacerbated price for peace, but also the geopolitical consequences of the “Iron Curtain”, which divided Europe into two worlds.
The terror which swallowed tens of millions of lives, of whom over 300,000 our fellow countrymen, triggered the Holocaust, left generations of unborn children, and deprived the others of fathers, mothers, grandparents, brothers and remained for all of us a well-learned and well-remembered lesson, so as not to repeat anything from its diabolical content.
At present, at a distance of more than seven decades, we are firmly resolute to make sure that the massacres and destructions from the times of that war will never repeat. No nation brings up its sons to sacrifice them on the battlefield. The war is a terrible machinery which does not pardon anyone, cannot make difference between new-born children and soldiers, between mothers and hirelings, between battle staff and kindergartens, between those who annex, conquer and those who defend their nation and country.
The day of 9 May must confirm us the ideal of national unity, peace and intolerance to all which means torture, blood and death on this Earth.
We pay homage to all those who died on battlefields of the World War II. Our duty is to preserve alive the memory of the heroes, known and unknown, of those who aspire to a bright and prosperous future.
Eternal memory to these heroes!
