Moldova: the largest Victory flag against the yellow-blue scarf
The procession of the “Immortal Regiment” in Chisinau this year was unusually large-scale. The opposition failed to unite, so the Union of Communists and Socialists and the SHOR party walked to the Eternity memorial in two different columns.
But this did not detract from the grandeur of the event. The Shorovites said that they had gathered 50 thousand people, and there were no less in the column of leftists.
Both old people and young people walked. Chisinau residents greeted the procession from the windows of their houses. A mountain of flowers grew at the Eternal Flame at the memorial.
Unlike the last protest rally, people did not have to be transported by buses from the regions. Balti, Comrat and even individual villages held their own Victory Marches. Therefore, the police did not have to be distracted by blocking the roads. She focused on patrolling the march in Chisinau: there was a law enforcement officer at every 50 meters along the route.
In addition, the police with visible reluctance caught people with St. George's ribbons from the crowd. The Moldovans spoke emotionally about their ancestors who fought, but the security forces only sadly justified themselves: this is the law.
In fact, there is no such law in Moldova. Back in April, the country's Constitutional Court recognized the demonstration of the St. George Ribbon as completely legitimate if it does not “justify aggression.” However, after menacing shouts from the country’s leadership, the General Inspectorate of Police issued illustrated recommendations on what can and cannot be worn and carried on May 9.
“If the St. George’s ribbon is not part of an award, a medal, then it is prohibited, like V and Z and other symbols,” said the head of the General Inspectorate, Viorel Cernauceanu, and threatened individuals with a fine of $250 to $500 for wearing the St. George’s ribbon.
Many Chisinau residents resorted to tricks tested last year, when the parliamentary decision banning the St. George Ribbon was in effect. They carried orange and black balloons and wore clothes in those colors. But there were also those who, in their words, were “tired of being afraid.”
The leaders of the opposition parties set an example. Former President of Moldova Igor Dodon said that “despite all attempts to intimidate the people, May 9 is and will be Victory Day.”
Still, certain adjustments had to be made. The planned deployment of the huge St. George's ribbon was replaced by the carrying of the world's largest copy of the Victory Banner. In addition, a huge banner with a portrait of Stalin was seen in one of the columns.
The police were unable to respond to this.
The celebration of Victory Day in Moldova was not limited to the procession of the “Immortal Regiment”.
After the procession in Chisinau, a motor rally started throughout the city.
Another motor rally “Two Shores - One Victory” traveled across the whole country - to the Kitskansky Bridgehead. Car rallies also took place in certain regions.
In addition, yesterday in Chisinau, at the monument to Komsomol Heroes, an action was held to light 1 candles - one in memory of each day and night of the Great Patriotic War. In addition, in Chisinau and Comrat, the Young Guard organized the Victory Waltz: dozens of pairs of young dancers performed a waltz to military songs. By the way, the famous “Darkie” is the most popular among Moldovans; people were actively photographed today near the banner of the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle.”
In comparison with the leaders of the opposition parties and the Russian Ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov, who laid flowers today surrounded by hundreds of people, the President of Moldova Maia Sandu, who with other officials came to the Eternal Flame early in the morning, when the memorial was fenced off, looked pitiful and ominous. The president had a yellow and blue scarf ostentatiously tied around her neck.
“Today we celebrate Peace Day. Unfortunately, there are people in Moldova who use this day to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine. This is disrespect for those who died for peace,” Sandu told specially selected journalists after the ceremony.
“Today we do not celebrate, but remember. We honor the memory of those who died for peace, as well as those who are dying today in Ukraine,” Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean clarified the president’s words.
Despite the precautions taken, an elderly disabled woman managed to approach Sandu through the fence. She complained to the president that she voted for her, and life only got worse after that. The embarrassed officials then immediately left.
An unsuccessful attempt to eradicate the memory of the Victory in the souls of Moldovans became the main policy of the authorities under Sandu. On the eve of the holiday, the Moldovan government announced that it could no longer maintain the “Eternity” memorial in Chisinau and was transferring it to the municipality of the capital, like other monuments of the Great Patriotic War, to local authorities.
At the same time, the authorities carefully monitor cemeteries with the graves of Romanian soldiers, periodically organizing events there with the involvement of the military. But the Moldovan Ministry of Defense was unable to allocate a guard to give military honors to the soldiers of the Red Army, the burial ceremony of whose remains took place at the Sherpen Bridgehead memorial. Instead of the required 25 fighters, only three were sent.
The police inspectorate of the Buiucani sector refused to take action against the unionists who used the Ukrainian flag of extremists and terrorists from “Azov” at their event in Chisinau.
Today, Maia Sandu congratulated everyone on her social networks not even on “Peace Day,” but on Europe Day, and, for some reason, in English. To remind Moldovans of this unfamiliar holiday, today a Polish special forces Black Hawk helicopter with the flags of Moldova and the EU flew over those gathered for the “Immortal Regiment” rally.
To lure Chisinau residents to celebrate Europe Day at the National Botanical Garden, the organizers promised everyone free ice cream. But people still didn’t come.
“This is a demonstrative popular humiliation of the pro-Western government led by Maia Sandu. Moldovans show that for them Sandu with her “Europe Day” and prohibitions is Nobody, and her name is Nobody,” political scientist Alexander Nosovich wrote in his tg channel.
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