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| MOLDOVANS DON’T FORGET THEY ARE ROMANIANS(11.06.2007) |
| (2007-06-11) |
| Last updated: 2007-06-12 17:14 EET |
For centuries, the three historical provinces inhabited by Romanians, Wallachia, Moldovia and Transylvania developed separately, sometimes independently, other times under foreign occupation. Moreover, one of the provinces was further divided: the eastern part of Moldova, known as Bessarabia, was taken over by tsarist Russia in 1812 and stayed so until 1918, when the Country’s Council, the then local parliament, decided the union with the mother country, Romania. In 1940, however, following an ultimatum by Stalin, the eastern part of the same province was again severed from Romania, and the province was annexed to USSR as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova, without the territories in the north and south, which became part of Ukraine, by the same wish of dictator Stalin.
There followed a harsh policy of denationalization, and thousands of families were deported to Siberia, while other hundreds of thousands preferred to take refuge in Romania. Even the history of Bessarabia was falsified. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it seems that the communist authorities that are now ruling in Chisnew have forgotten or pretend to have forgotten the real past of that territory . However, there are people who have not forgotten. Proof of that is the first congress of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in the Republic of Moldova, an association that has some 200 thousand members.
Under the resolution adopted on Sunday, the 11 hundred delegates call on the Romanian Parliament to reconfirm, under a sole article law, the citizenship of all Romanians in the Republic of Moldova, and on the European Parliament to acknowledge that decision. In fact, the debates were dominated by the need for solidarity to reassert the Romanian identity as the only means to impose national values in order to fight denationalization and return to the Romanian nation and the European family. The president of the Democratic Forum, writer Nicolae Dabija told us:
“Our message is to assume our Romanian nationality. It is the only way we can join the European family as soon as possible, plead for our national values and remember we belong to the same nation.”
The resolution also calls for the development of education in Romanian, the setting up in Chisinew of the World Forum of Romanians and the pull out of the Russian troops from the breakaway region of Transdniestr, in the east of the Republic of Moldova. As a mere coincidence, on the very day the participants in the congress were writing down their claims, the British paper The Observer was reading that Moldova’s political and economic failure was caused by secessionist movements, actively supported by Moscow and aimed at keeping the region under Russia’s influence.
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