Moldovan village between popular calendar and centralized planning in the second half of the twentieth century

The traditional calendar had a great importance in the village’s life in the past because it indicated the optimal time for plowing and sowing, for the sheep to go to the pasture, the days favorable for collecting medical herbs, weddings, etc. But over time, it has undergone countless changes caused by various factors. First of all, it is about the role of science and its intense development since in the modern era, which had in the transformation of the traditional calendar into one of a more symbolic character. Secondly, it is about changing the political context: Bessarabia becomes the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic as part of U.S.S.R. and is subjected to ideological policies according to the instructions issued by Moscow, which aimed to Russify and denationalize the occupied peoples and form a new soviet consciousness. Last but not least, we must take into account the economic policy of U.S.S.R., which translated into life by applying a planned economy and, in general, a centralized planning in all spheres of life. Obviously, in such conditions, a large part of our ancestral traditions have not been passed down to us.