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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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„The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns”

March 23 - April 14, 2018

The Cotroceni National Museum, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute "Mihai Eminescu" in Chisinau, organized on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 15.00, at the National Museum of History of Moldova, the opening of the exhibition "The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns", a photo-documentary project that is part of the series of cultural events that the Cotroceni National Museum dedicated to the Centenary of the Great Union.

After Brașov, Iaşi and Galați, the Cotroceni National Museum aims to display this exhibition outside the borders of Romania. Symbolically, the international travel of exhibition "The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns" begins in Chişinău, in the context of the celebration of the 100^th anniversary since the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.

Through this exhibition, the Cotroceni National Museum highlights the role of the Royal Family of Romania in accomplishing the national unity of the Romanian state.

In addition to photographs portraying King Ferdinand and Queen Maria on the front of the Great War, the audience will also see original images from the collections of the Cotroceni National Museum, captured at the return of the sovereigns in Bucharest during the peace talks or the crowning ceremony at Alba Iulia from 1922.

The exhibition will be open to the public in the hall on the ground floor of the National Museum of History of Moldova from March 23 to April 14, 2018.