The First Enemy Aircraft Shot Down on the Territory of the Moldavian SSR

At dawn on June 22, 1941, the territory of the republic was subjected to bombing by enemy aircraft. After the signal of an air attack, 10 Soviet MiG-3 fighters took to the sky. 85 enemy bombers were heading towards them. The pilots of the 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment managed to destroy several German planes […]

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Memory and Betrayal

Memory and betrayal—or how the Minister of Health of Moldova, Alla Nemerenco, consigned her liberator father to oblivion.

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