Muzeul Memoriei Neamului (

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; ''Museum of National Memory'') is a

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, dedicated to the victims of the

Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina The Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place from June 28 to July 3, 1940, as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania on June 26, 1940, that threatened the use of force. Bessarabia had been part of the Ki ...

, and commemorating

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resistance in the region.

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Founded by the former political prisoner and dissident

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, the museum is located on ''str. Costache Negruzzi no 4'' and is supported by the Association of the Victims of the Communist Regime and of the War Veterans of the Romanian Army, a Moldovan

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. In the 1990s,

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, a member in the 1940s of the resistance organization "

Arcașii lui Ștefan The National Organization of Bessarabia "Arcașii lui Ștefan" (Romanian:''Organizaţia Națională din Basarabia "Arcașii lui Ștefan"'') was one of the organized anti-Soviet groups in Bessarabia right after World War II. Activity The Nat ...

" in occupied

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...

, founded a small museum in two rooms at 52 Kogălniceanu Street. The association was disbanded and its exhibits stored in the basement of the National History Museum. After 3–4 years, Vadim Pirogan, a former political prisoner condemned by the Soviets in 1941 to five years of forced labor at camps in the

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region, decided to rebuild the museum together with Nicholas Caireac in a 70 m² room that they rented. On June 30, 2010, the First Vlad Filat Cabinet, decided to create a separate ''Museum of Victims of Communism'';About 40,000 persons were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on July 6, 1949, IPN Press Agency, 6.7.2010
/ref> however, such a museum has not been inaugurated.

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Image:Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Patrascu.jpg, Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Pătraşcu

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Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
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Muzeul Memoriei Neamului Muzeul Memoriei Neamului (Romanian language, Romanian; ''Museum of National Memory'') is a private museum in Chișinău, Moldova, dedicated to the victims of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, and commemorating anti-commun ...

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