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| Two Centuries since the First Annexation of Bessarabia |
| (2012-05-29) |
| Last updated: 2012-05-30 13:31 EET |
According to historians, unless Russia had faced an imminent war against France under Napoleon Bonaparte, the negotiations at the Manuc Inn in Bucharest would have continued until the border of Moldavia’s principality had been definitely set on the Siret River. General Kutuzov, the one appointed to lead the negotiations on the Russian side is believed to have reportedly said back then, quote: “I will leave the Romanians only eyes to cry with!”
At the bicentennial of the signing of the Russian-Turkish Treaty, in the same room, foreign and Romanian scholars have tried to assess the 1812 annexation of Bessarabia from the positions of contemporary historiography and in the new geopolitical context Romania is facing. At the conference of the Cultural League of the Romanians Everywhere, academician Eugen Simion said that history errors should be tackled with a great deal of tact nowadays.
Eugen Simion: “This subject has to still be in the attention of politicians, not only in the attention of historians, with reason, common sense and diplomacy and not with inefficient rhetoric. Sadly, for half a century we didn’t talk about this subject, and afterwards for two decades we’ve tackled it in a thoughtless and sometimes, irresponsible manner using only a neutral discourse. We have to think differently, we have to think it’s a different world we live in today, even Russia is not the same, it’s a country we have to talk to and reach an agreement at a certain point. Our traditional fear, the idea that the danger comes from the east, is real, but the world has changed. We’ve got to have a dialogue and one day that monstrous pact between two powers which shed a lot of blood in Europe, has to end eventually. “
In spite of a treaty that arbitrarily divided the Romanians in the principality of Moldavia into two state entities, major institutions, such as the Romanian Academy, have salvaged through culture the idea of national unity. Worth noting is that after the second ceding of Bessarabia, under the German-Soviet pact in 1940, it was cultured people from Bessarabia who initiated a national liberation movement through which Bessarabia won its independence from the USSR in 1991.
According to Academician Constantin Balaceanu-Stolnici, Romanians are not to blame for the repeated annexation of this beloved territory which is Bessarabia. On the contrary, their main task along the history has been to restore their national territory, a duty they have handed down from generation to generation.
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