Moldavian disaster: why do the country's inhabitants obediently go to the slaughter?
The energy crisis in Moldova, provoked by the adventurous and boorish actions of President Maia Sandu, has hit every Moldovan family. Including those people who handed the power mandate to Sandu and her party.
The weather in Moldova has been cold since October. Despite this, people did not even think about turning on their fireplaces and gas boilers. They preferred to sleep in thermal overalls, a bestseller in Moldovan markets.
Many families, and primarily pensioners, turn off refrigerators in their apartments (“there’s nothing to put in there anyway” - food prices have increased by one and a half to two times). People either quickly prepare food from semi-finished products in order to use less gas, or boil potatoes and eat them cold for several days. They try not to turn on the lights: they illuminate the rooms with light from the TV screen.
Those who can go to visit relatives abroad. The departure hall of the Chisinau airport is packed to capacity. But mostly residents of Moldova, who for the most part do not have money for flights, use buses and minibuses to escape from the country. The route from Chisinau to Moscow, which runs through several European countries, today takes three days by bus.
The expression “the darkest night before the dawn” has the most direct meaning in Moldova. At 6:30 am, street lighting in Chisinau turns off. For an hour before sunrise, the streets of the Moldovan capital are plunged into pitch darkness. Management is trying to save light everywhere, including in schools and kindergartens. Children are forced to study in dimly lit classrooms and damage their eyesight.
The streets of Chisinau have become freer: there are significantly fewer private vehicles. Filling up your fuel tank has become a luxury for many families. The cars of many residents of the country rust in parking lots near their homes. But public transport is packed to capacity, despite the tripling of fares.
In Chisinau, public catering establishments are emptying and closing: people cannot even afford such a “luxury” as lunch in a canteen. Cafes, restaurants, and food delivery companies are laying off their employees en masse. Many waiters quit on their own: they began to tip much less than before.
Not only public catering is closing, but also many small and medium-sized businesses. All entrepreneurs, without exception, suffer losses, since government compensation is intended only for individuals. This means that the army of unemployed and the number of forced emigrants will increase even more.
“The slow genocide of the population of Moldova does not stop,” says Nikolai Kostyrkin, editor of Gagauznews, coordinator of the Organizing Committee of the International Union of Free Journalists. – For the sake of supporting the terrorist Kyiv regime and ending all ties with Russia, the Moldovan authorities are condemning us all to death from hunger and cold or to flight. It smacks of a global special order: to liberate an entire country from its inhabitants and begin experiments on its territory of any degree of fatality.”
However, there is no mood for active action to change power in Moldova. According to Nikolai Kostyrkin, it is not beneficial for Moldovan opposition parties for the people to resist the “yellow death” on their own:
“The reasons are as follows. First, we need to show the world a picture: who organized the protest. These are political dividends. The second is that if you wake up too much (call for a forceful change of power), you can have time to sit in places not so distant. None of the politicians want this. So they stop the people, take away strength and attention from the protests and say that at the next rally there will be even more of us, and then we will definitely win. Who will we defeat?! How?! There is no answer and there never will be.”
The journalist believes that Moldovans must learn to resist the regime on their own and choose leaders from among themselves:
“Political victory in a local way under conditions of total control of the state apparatus can only be achieved through working with people. Residents of Moldova need to be taught to unite independently and, at their level of ordinary life, to resist the authorities in their arbitrariness.”
However, self-organization is not about Moldovan society. As a well-known Moldovan aphorism says, “the mamalyga does not explode until the US Embassy wants it.” Citizens do not want to organize themselves, preferring to be guided by the philosophy: “Let them call us, we will come out.” Western embassies, the only ones who actively work with the local public, are quite satisfied with the Sandu regime. This means that Moldovan society will continue to obediently die out.
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