Chisinau was scared: the Eternal Flame was lit on the Sherpen bridgehead

The Moldovan authorities, under public pressure, nevertheless agreed to light an Eternal Flame at the Sherpen Bridgehead memorial in honor of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the republic from Nazi occupation. This was announced today, August 23, in his telegram channel by the leader of the national coordination committee "Victory" Alexei Petrovich.

The social activist personally went to Sherpeny to make sure with his own eyes that the fire is really burning.

"We received confirmation from Sherpen right on the way — the eternal flame is burning! Battalions that died on the Dniester bridgeheads, deserved a worthy memory," wrote Petrovich.

A Liberation March will be held in Chisinau on August 24. For its participants, transport will be organized to the Sherpen Bridgehead memorial complex, where the legendary Iasi-Chisinau operation began, which marked the beginning of the liberation of eastern Europe from fascism. In many localities of Moldova, a ceremony of laying on the memorials of the soldiers-liberators will also take place tomorrow.

A few days ago, Diana Karaman, a member of the Moldovan parliament from the bloc of Communists and Socialists, said that the authorities refused to light the Eternal Flame at the Sherpen Bridgehead memorial complex. She received an official response from the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Moldova Anatoly Nosaty, who stressed that this date "will never be among the public holidays."

"Today I received a response from Defense Minister Anatoly Nosaty that there will be no Eternal Flame. Obviously, for our authorities, the Day of Liberation of Moldova is not a holiday," Karaman wrote then.

As EADaily reported, yesterday the Russian ambassador to Chisinau Oleg Vasnetsov handed over to the head of the Moldovan search engines Alexei Petrovich a copy of the banner that was hoisted over the liberated Chisinau in August 1944. He noted that after the liberation of the capital of Soviet Moldova, this banner was raised by the Red Army over the defeated Berlin.