Misplaced Pages

Train of Pain – The Memorial to Victims of Stalinist repression

Romanian: Monumentul în memoria victimelor deportărilor regimului comunist
The memorial in 2019
47°00′43″N 28°51′31″E / 47.01204°N 28.85851°E / 47.01204; 28.85851
Location	Chișinău
Designer	Iurie Platon
Length	12 metres (39 ft)
Height	2 metres (6.6 ft)
Beginning date	2012
Completion date	2013
Dedicated to	Victims of Communism

The Train of Pain – Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression (Romanian: Trenul durerii – Monumentul în memoria victimelor deportărilor regimului comunist) is a monument in Chișinău, Moldova. A temporary stone was unveiled in 1990 in Central Station Square commemorating the 1940–1951 mass deportations in Soviet Moldavia. A permanent memorial was completed at the site in 2013. The sculptural element was assembled in Belarus.

Temporary memorial

See also

• Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation
• Soviet Occupation Day, Moldova

References

1. In memoria victimelor regimului stalinist. Un monument al victimelor regimului stalinist va fi inaugurat la Chisinau pana la sfarsitul acestui an. Potrivit autoritatilor municipale, acesta va fi instalat in aleea Garii Feroviare.
2. „Trenul durerii” pentru „duşmanii poporului”

External links

• Victimele represiunilor regimului comunist-stalinist au participat la mitingul prilejuit de implinirea a 56 de ani de la deportarile comuniste din 6 iulie 1949
• Premierul Filat a depus flori la piatra de temelie a Monumentului victimelor represiunilor staliniste din scuarul Gării

This sculpture article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Monuments and memorials in Chișinău
• 2013 in Moldova
• 2013 sculptures
• Memorials to victims of communism
• Anti-communism in Moldova
• Political repression
• Sculpture stubs