Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by passterby on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:32PM
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wasn't there supposed to be a large supply warehouse of ammunition in that region of Transnistria??
Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by SauciestGNU on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:55PM
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They even allegedly had/have a bootleg helicopter factory [0]
[0] https://www.defensemirror.com/news/27318/Fake_Russian_Ka_26_...
Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by tpoacher on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:46PM
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It's weird to me that you differentiate "Russians vs Moldovans". I have met many people from Moldova whose first language is Russian, and identify as Moldovan. To me it sounds as weird as if you'd said something like "French vs Canadians" for Canada.
Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by philistine on Saturday February 25, 2023 @09:26PM
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While yeah, no one outside a recent immigrant would call themselves French, 62% of people in Quebec identify as Québécois, not as Canadian.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201903/21/01-521...
So I'd presume those Russian-speaking Moldovans simply talk about their Russian values and defending their Russian uniqueness, but they won't say they're Russians simply because they lack a word. Maybe Transnitrians?
Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by walterbell on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:10AM
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> It's weird to me that you
The quoted text is from this author:
William Zadeskey is a 2022 MA graduate of The Ohio State University. He completed his undergraduate degree in Russian and International Studies also at Ohio State. His area of concentration is the Politics, Culture, and History of Romania, Moldova, and Transnistria. Will's Master's thesis, The Origins of the Separation Between Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria), explored the legacy of Soviet nationality policy, the multicultural character of Transnistria, and the events of 1989-90 that drove a wedge between Moldova and Transnistria.
Re:What does Moscow want with Moldova?
by netfortius on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:54AM
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Weird would be to differentiate between Romanians and Moldovans. A lot of Romanian families, on both sides of the river Prut, have been forcibly separated at the end of WW2, while being "just" Romanians prior to that. Insertion of Russians post Moldovan annexation to USSR, (not only in Moldova, but also all over Romania), and associated deportation of Romanians, from places like Ungheni, Chisinau, Tighina, Orhei, Balti, etc. (from actual Republic of Moldova territory, but not only), into the further NW regions of USSR, took place over quite a few years post WW2, and made a difference, also.
> ... ethnic migration resulted in its current ethnic diversity: 158,000 Russians (33.8%), 153,500 Moldovans (33.2%), and 124,200 Ukrainians (26.7%). Throughout the Soviet period, these ethnic populations lived in harmony, freely speaking their respective languages and intermarrying. Thus, nationalism was traditionally an unappealing ideology to the multi-ethnic communities of Transnistria.
> ... The Transnistrians of 1989 and 1990 were not part of a grand Russian strategy to destabilize Moldova. Rather, the protests and independence referendums in these years were grassroots efforts by a multi-ethnic population, which felt threatened by Moldovan nationalism and pan-Romanianism. Only in the years after these actions did Moscow begin to exploit the conflict. As ties with Russia increased, Russian chauvinism usurped true linguistic equality and multiculturalism in Transnistria.