#Exhibit of the Month

The work In Memoriam. In Memory of the Heroes Who Fell at the Nistru (1992) was developed within the Center for Culture and Military History and published under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Moldova, the Bureau for Reintegration, and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova. Authors: Gheorghe Bălan, Vitalie Ciobanu, Gheorghe Cojocaru.

This work provides a retrospective of the events that led to the outbreak of the war on the Nistru, accompanied by photographs of the heroes who lost their lives in the battles to defend the independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova.

On March 2, 1992, the political conflict in the Nistru region escalated into a true fratricidal war. Under the fabricated pretext of "defending Russia's southern borders," political adventurers from the former Soviet metropolis encouraged Transnistrian separatism by arming secessionist paramilitary groups. At the same time, thousands of mercenary Cossacks and prisoners released early from jails, along with tanks and missiles, were sent against Independent Moldova, in a desperate attempt to revive the fallen empire.

Russia's undeclared war against the Republic of Moldova left behind hundreds of dead and wounded, shattered families, and villages in ruins. More than 50,000 peaceful residents from the conflict zone were forced to flee their homes, seeking refuge from the horrors of war.

For the sake of freedom and the future, Moldova's defenders faced death, enduring the hardships and humiliations of war.

During the Nistru war, 198 soldiers of the National Army and 89 personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs lost their lives, while 40 combatants went missing without a trace, and nearly 300 were left disabled.

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Opening of the exhibition "Postcards from Ukraine"

February 26, 2024

On February 26, the "Postcards from Ukraine" exhibition was opened at the National Museum of History of Moldova.

During the event, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova, Sergiu Prodan, the NMHM deputy director, Livia Ermurachi, the representative of the Embassy of Ukraine in Chisinau, Natalia Sirenco, and the director of AO "Progressive Community", Diana Dereveanco, participated with speeches.

The exhibition includes 22 plates - postcards, each telling the history of an architectural monument located in different regions of Ukraine, before and after its destruction or damage. The works are part of the international exhibition "Symbol of the Victory of Ukraine", a project that documents and presents the destruction caused by missile attacks and bombings on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple historical and architectural monuments are attacked and destroyed daily and archeology of Ukraine. Russian military forces cynically and mercilessly target museums, monuments, universities, cinemas, launch rockets at churches, cathedrals, television towers and other edifices. The Russian army not only devastates Ukrainian cities and villages, but destroys systematically and Ukrainian cultural heritage.

The exhibition "Postcards from Ukraine" is organized by the "Progressive community" Association, in collaboration with the National Museum of History of Moldova and with the support of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova, dedicated to the commemoration of two years since the start of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The "Postcards from Ukraine" exhibition can be visited until March 15, 2024, in the upstairs hall of the National Museum of History of Moldova, 31 August 1989 street, 121A.