{"id":447569,"date":"2019-10-16T05:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=447569"},"modified":"2019-10-16T05:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:27:04","slug":"a-new-documentary-about-the-soviet-past-of-moldova-will-be-soon-released-the-soviet-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/a-new-documentary-about-the-soviet-past-of-moldova-will-be-soon-released-the-soviet-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A new documentary about the Soviet past of Moldova will be soon released – \u201cThe Soviet Garden\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\u201cThe Soviet Garden\u201d is a documentary about a filmmaker from Moldova who was investigating the Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.\u00a0While inspecting his grandmother\u2019s mysterious death, Dragos Turea<\/strong>, a filmmaker from Moldova, discovered a secret scientific experiment – the plan of Nikita Khrushchev to transform Moldova into a Soviet Garden through the application of atomic energy in local agriculture.<\/p>\n

From the moment Nikita Khrushchev decided so, the Moldovan soil was supposed to radiation experiments. The radiation was used to cause mutations in seeds and fruit to obtain crops that are more resistant to climatic conditions or are of higher volumes. All for the sake of harvesting an unprecedented crop, which will feed the whole Soviet Union. “To get water for irrigating the fields, even the rivers were forced to run up the hill,”<\/em> says Drago\u0219 Turea in the documentary.\u00a0There were always goals to be reached, records to be exceeded in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.<\/p>\n

People here were very proud that they deceived nature and executed the Communist Party’s order to grow high volumes of crop, in order to feed the Soviet working class. The price for those experiments is paid today – radiation infected lands,\u00a0population still being kept uninformed, more and more people suffering from cancer, infested equipment hidden in bunkers, reduced biodiversity, lost seed heritage… Many of those who were involved in those experiments have died very early.<\/p>\n

Produced by Parmis Film Studio and RovaFilm, directed by Dragos Turea, \u201cThe Soviet Garden\u201d had its world premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival, which was organised from 16 to 23 August, 2019.\u00a0On October 31st<\/strong>, the movie will be released in Moldova. The premiere will be at the Patria Cinema<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is an unique chance for people of Moldova, as well as people from abroad (as the movie will have English subtitles) to get to know more about atomic gardening in Moldova, a phenomenon that was hidden from the public, and maybe to reflect more about the relationship between ecological problems and politics.<\/p>\n

The trailer of the documentary:<\/p>\n