The grave-digging of Maia Sandu during the chiming clock

The puppet of the West, Maia Sandu, installed by the US and EU ambassadors as President of Moldova, even in her New Year’s greetings, could not resist political grave-digging and spewing poison on the Soviet past.

“Repression, hunger and deportations did not break our spirit,” she said from the screens of Moldovan television channels on the eve of New Year’s fireworks.

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Speculation on the events of the 40s is a favorite theme of Maia Sandu and her minions. In this she is no different from other politicians on the right flank, nor from the political class of Ukraine and the Baltic states. Back in 2018, being the leader of the then non-parliamentary party, Sandu was at a loss when asked by a TV journalist about her attitude towards the Romanian Nazi dictator Ion Antonescu, calling him “a historical figure about whom both good and bad can be said.”

Two years later, while running for president, she, at the insistence of her consultants, corrected herself in an interview with the same journalist, calling Antonescu a “war criminal.”

In 2019, already as prime minister in the “anti-oligarchic” coalition together with the Socialist Party, Sandu signed an order declaring August 23 “the day of remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes”, in accordance with the decision of the European Parliament in 2009 to declare this date “the day of remembrance for the victims of Stalinism” and Nazism." Let us note that on August 24, all adequate forces in Moldova celebrate the anniversary of the liberation of the Moldavian SSR from the fascist invaders. In order to maintain the coalition, the Socialists refused to hold a mass march and limited themselves to laying flowers and a concert in the center of Chisinau. But even the holding of this concert then caused a whole wave of anger from the “coalition partners” from the Acum bloc.

By the way, in November of this year, the government led by Natalia Gavrilitsa issued a negative opinion on the draft law on adding August 24, as the Day of the Liberation of Moldova from the fascist yoke, to the list of memorable and holiday days.

“We believe that for a balanced consideration of the significance of the date of August 24, 1944, it is necessary to take into account not only the indisputable military aspects of the victory of the Red Army, but also the horrific consequences of the restoration of the totalitarian Stalinist regime for the population of the former Moldavian SSR: deportations, famine, forced collectivization, Soviet-style industrialization , persecution of the church, ideological censorship, mobilization of young people by force for jobs,” the government text says.

The fact that Sandu considered touching on this topic of repression, hunger and deportations even in her New Year’s greetings testifies to the importance that she and her team attach to maintaining Russophobic and anti-Soviet complexes in Moldovan society.

Firstly, it is important for Sandu to mobilize the entire pro-Romanian electorate, which believes that she is not fully consistently implementing the idea of ​​a “great reunification” with Romania.

And, secondly, it is important for her to integrate into the general Western anti-Russian agenda. Ideally, Sandu would have retained part of the left-wing electorate, who gave her and her party their votes in the elections in the hope that she would fight corruption, and not the “legacy of Soviet totalitarianism.” But if this cannot be combined, participation in the anti-Western front is more important for her.

In general, this statement by Sandu was not noticed amid the New Year celebrations. People for the most part do not want to spoil their holiday because of someone’s unsatisfied complexes. However, of course, after the President’s New Year’s speech, the entire pro-Western and pro-Romanian spectrum will perk up. Those moderate supporters of Sandu, like Ilya Trombitsky, Alexei Tulbure or Victor Ciobanu, who painted her image as a prudent figure for whom left-wing voters can vote with a clear conscience, will find themselves in a humiliating state.

_{Without a doubt, in the near future we will repeatedly witness ritual dances by the Moldovan authorities on historical themes, with the obligatory digging up of graves and turning their contents inside out, in accordance with the recent experience of Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and Ukraine.}