Death train with hundreds of thousands of victims will remind about horrors of Communism

The monument to the victims of the totalitarian Communist regime will be located in the square of the Railway Terminal in Chisinau by this yearend. It will be 10-12 meters in width and up to 2 meters in height. The design of the monument was presented by Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and sculptor Iurie Platon at Monday's meeting of the Chisinau services and divisions, Info-Prim Neo reports.

The monument represents the movement of a mass of people to infinity, to eternity. The train formed of human bodies has three dimensions. Initially, the people look like humans, but then they
blend with the chaos of the machinery and become parts of the death train that conveyed more than one million Moldovans to Siberia and Kazakhstan.

Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca said a monument to the victims of the totalitarian Communist regime had to be erected immediately after their rehabilitation in 1957. The Soviet regime and the former Communist government should have built such a monument in order to recognize the Communist crimes. According to the mayor, there must be emphasized tree essential things – the destruction of the Moldovan society, the suffering through which the best representatives of the society went and the consequences suffered after the intellectual elite and the hardworking people were deported. He said it will be hard to erect the monument in such a short period of time, but every effort is justified.

Such a monument is built during about five years, but artist Iurie Platon assured that it will be ready by the end of this year. Different specialists will be engaged in the building works. Platon said it was a unique chance for him as it was the most important work in his life.

Hundreds of thousands of Moldovan families perished after they were deported. Those who survived had struggled for a monument for years, but obtained only a commemorative plaque that was placed in the square of the Railway Terminal.