Museum exhibition “Soviet Moldova: Between Myths and the Gulag”

Red Terror, as well as the ?Soviet Dream", began simultaneously with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Since November 7, 1917, in the territory of the present Republic of Moldova, first in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and since 1940 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, the totalitarian communist regime committed a series of crimes against humanity: genocide, political repressions, and the organized famine. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people were persecuted for their political or religious beliefs, by national or social reasons. Hundreds of thousands of victims were deported to Siberia, sentenced to death, subjected to imprisonment or starved to death in psychiatric institutions. The exhibition ?Soviet Moldova: Between Myths and the Gulag" brings together 730 museum pieces: photographs, documents, letters from Siberia, the posters of those years, the anti-Soviet slogans and leaflets, lists of confiscated property, personal belongings of former deportees and political prisoners, and other historical relics, recreating a terrible picture of the Great Terror. It is dedicated to all victims of totalitarian communist regime.