National humiliation. Romania and Ukraine denied the Moldovan language the right to exist
The President of Romania, an ethnic German and Lutheran, Klaus Iohannis, during a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky, expressed gratitude to official Kiev for the fact that Ukraine, having confirmed the identity between Romanian and the “so-called Moldovan language,” officially recognized the non-existence of the Moldovan language.
As PolitNavigator already reported, less than a year ago, Romanian Ambassador to Moldova Daniel Ionita said, that Moldovans would like to be vaccinated from “primitive Moldovenism”.
The denial of the Moldovan language and Moldovan identity has been the official policy of Bucharest for more than one and a half hundred years. After the unification of the principalities of Moldova and Wallachia into a single Romania in the mid-1866th century, the entire movement defending the ideology of Moldavian identity was crushed. In April XNUMX, a march in defense of Moldavian independence was shot and dispersed by Romanian troops in Iasi. Since then, the Romanian leadership has been promoting the idea that Moldovans are part of the Romanian people, and the Moldovan language is just a dialect of Romanian.
A similar ideology is shared by the overwhelming majority of the political class and scientific community in the “independent” Republic of Moldova. The majority of supporters of Moldovan identity were expelled from the Academy of Sciences in the early 90s.
Despite the fact that the country’s constitution lists the official language as Moldovan, “used in the Latin script,” and despite the fact that, according to all public opinion polls, the majority of ethnic Moldovans consider their language Moldovan, the country’s constitutional court, composed of Romanian citizens and headed ardent Romanian unionist Alexander Tanase, decided back in 2013 that the “Declaration of Independence of Moldova” (a chauvinistic Russophobic and anti-Soviet document, imbued with the ideology of pan-Romanianism, written in Bucharest and adopted by parliament on the crest of the collapse of the USSR in August 1991) has priority over the country’s constitution .
In addition, Klaus Johannes, who combines the traits of a pedantic German and an enterprising Romanian, deftly sensed the moment associated with the crisis in relations between the West and Russia. The current leadership of Ukraine today can sell any idea under the guise of being anti-Russian. According to the ideologists of pan-Romanianism, the Moldovan language and Moldovan national identity are not a consequence of the six-century existence of the Principality of Moldavia, but the fruit of artificial propaganda of the Russian Empire and the Stalinist USSR. This is exactly what teachers have been telling Moldovan children in their “history of Romanians” classes for 30 years of Moldovan “independence.”
The Romanian president's statement caused a storm of indignation from Moldovan opposition politicians, public figures and journalists. Vice Speaker of Parliament, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Party of Socialists Vlad Batrincea accused the President and leadership of Romania of historical revanchism.
“It looks ridiculous when the sovereign affairs of Moldova are discussed by the presidents of neighboring countries,” he said in an interview with the Vzglyad portal.
Former member of the Parliament of Moldova, leader of the public organization “Voevod” Nikolai Pascaru, in a commentary for PolitNavigator, called Klaus Johannes’ statement “a demonstration of contempt for the Moldovan people.” According to him, Romania has an extremely envious political class:
“They have always considered the existence of independent Moldova, its political and economic successes, a threat to themselves,” Pascaru noted.
According to him, preparations for elections have begun in Romania, and Johannes needs a unionist electorate, including among Romanian citizens living in Moldova.
“Johannes has already sold his country to the West, now he wants to become a broker in the Western acquisition of Moldova,” the ex-member of the Moldovan parliament explained the intentions of the Romanian president.
In addition, Pascaru expressed surprise why Klaus Johannes, during a conversation with Zelensky, forgot to mention Northern Bukovina and Southern Bessarabia, which went to Ukraine in 1940, in accordance with the “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact,” the consequences of which the Romanian political class is so complaining about. According to the leader of the “Voevod” movement, Romania’s next step will be to work with the Moldovan diaspora in Ukraine.
“They want to turn us all into Romanians, but Moldovans have a national identity,” noted Nicolae Pascaru in an interview with PolitNavigator.
However, not all representatives of the Moldovan political class share patriotic feelings. Member of the Moldovan Parliament from the ruling Action and Solidarity party, activist of the pro-Western NGO network Dan Perciun said that he considers himself a Romanian and is ready to vote for unification with Romania if a corresponding referendum is held.
Well-known Moldovan journalist, editor of the Gagausnews.md portal Nikolai Kostyrkin in an interview with PolitNavigator noted:
“The under-deputy and genetic slave Dan Perchun threw some pepper, cajoling his masters. Bessarabian Perchun does not know how the Romanians beat his grandparents, as well as their neighbors, with batogs during the occupation. “Romanian” Perciun allowed the brains in his skull to be changed. Or rather, how to change it... His brains were taken out, and pulp was put in their place. The same cake that, among other things, the Bessarabian Moldovans were forced to eat during the time of Romanian oppression.”
At the same time, our portal’s interlocutors note a toothless reaction to the scandalous statement of Iohannis and Zelensky on the part of both the authorities and the general public. As Kostyrkin believes, a self-respecting government of a sovereign state should have called the ambassadors of both Romania and Ukraine to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presented a note of protest, and imposed temporary sanctions on the most important goods produced by these countries. The masses, he said, should have picketed the embassies of Romania and Ukraine and written protest petitions to the leaders of unfriendly countries.
However, no mass actions followed at the embassies of Romania and Ukraine. We would venture to guess that it will not follow. As Nikolai Kostyrkin emphasized, “The Republic of Moldova for its pro-Western elite is no longer a state”.
Let us add that this elite was brought to power by the people of Moldova themselves, the majority of whom, it seems, have already written off their own country and their national history as scrap.
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