Zakharova criticized the words of the head of the Ministry of Health of Moldova about the Red Army

If the Red Army had not liberated Moldova in 1944, there would be no such country now. This was stated on March 6 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the statement by the head of the Moldovan Ministry of Health, Anna Nemerenko.

In February, a Moldovan official said during a speech in parliament that Moldovans would be much happier today if they had not been liberated by the Red Army.

"This is a monstrous statement. Very scary. Because if the Soviet soldiers had not liberated Moldova, <...> then Moldova would not have existed," Zakharova said at a briefing.

She noted that the Moldovan authorities are now trying to do what the Red Army saved the country from. According to her, Chisinau is trying to destroy Moldova's ethno-cultural identity by converting Moldovans into Romanians.

"This is a frenzy. Everything is being done to belittle, even cancel, the significance of the Great Victory," the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added.

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Earlier, on February 1, Marina Tauber, a member of the Moldovan parliament and executive secretary of the executive committee of the Pobeda opposition bloc, in an interview with Izvestia, called outrageous the admission of textbooks to local schools justifying the German-Romanian occupation during the war. According to her, the books contain information about the alleged struggle of the Romanian occupiers only with the Communists.