DEPOLITIZAREA ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTULUI SUPERIOR DIN REPUBLICA MOLDOVA ȘI REABILITAREA VICTIMELOR POLITICII DE DEZNAȚIONALIZARE

Abstract

The de-ideologization and depoliticization of higher education, which accompanied the reform of the vocational school in the Soviet Union during the process of Gorbachevist restructuring, took place in the Moldovan SSR/SSR Moldova in the context of the national movement of Bessarabian Romanians. Thus, the process of giving up the ideologized and indoctrinated educational system was completed and focused on the return of Moldovan higher education to the Romanian national traditions of European origin. The return of high school to the space of national education also involved reconsidering the history and people who were victims of the policy of denationalization of higher education during the Soviet period. This policy includes the actions of moral rehabilitation of expelled students and teachers that were dismissed for "manifestations of nationalism", actions initiated in 1990-1991 by the Ministry of Science and Education Moldovan SSR/RSS Moldova. The moral rehabilitation of the students and academics expelled from high school for political reasons did not have a legal character, but it was proof of civic attitude and moral responsibility towards people who have chosen dignity over the personal interest of maintaining the social and professional status provided by the regime. These people decided to pass over the fear and to confront the regime in order to preserve their national values and traditions.