Having banned the St. George ribbon, the Moldovan authorities took up Soviet orders
The Moldovan government has approved the downgrading of the status of Soviet military orders. Amendments were made to the 1995 parliamentary resolution “On the rights of citizens of the Republic of Moldova awarded with state awards of the former USSR.”
Now the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Glory and the Order of Personal Courage, which were equated to the Order of Stephen the Great - the highest military order of independent Moldova and the second most important in the country, will be considered equivalent Order of Loyalty to the Motherland, 500st degree, the fifth most important award. This means that the monthly pension supplement for holders of such Soviet orders will be reduced from 100 to XNUMX lei.
The authors of the legislative initiative are deputies of the ruling PAS party Boris Markoc and Dan Perciun. The official justification for the document is not given in the Moldovan press, but local representatives of the Internet community vividly commented on it. They drew attention to the fact that the budgetary savings made by the decision would be negligible, but yet another spit on the Soviet past in power turned out to be excellent.
“On the one hand, we are talking about reducing payments to holders of Soviet orders from the pension fund,” explains politician and journalist Dmitry Chubashenko on his Facebook page. – The regime of President Maia Sandu apparently considered that in the conditions of unbridled growth of tariffs and prices, this is an important source of saving public funds. If they are not able to curb inflation itself, then cutting the pensions of order bearers is within their power.
The International Monetary Fund should like these savings. On the other hand, this measure is being taken in the context of the general policy of de-Sovietization/derussification pursued by the current pro-European government.
According to this government, everything that reminds of the Soviet Union and its legal successor the Russian Federation must be eradicated in Moldova, which is pursuing a course towards European integration. But in this case, this power should not be limited to the fight only against Soviet military and labor orders, the memory of the Great Patriotic War and its symbols, Russian television programs and other similar things.”
Chubashenko believes that if government officials call themselves honest people, they should be honest in everything. This means, he says, that the government must stop using the building of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR, the parliament must move out of the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova, the presidency must vacate the building of the Supreme Council of the MSSR.
“All together,” the politician continues, “they must bury Komsomol Lake, because it was dug by Soviet Komsomol members on the instructions of the former leader of the Moldovan Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev. Stop taking your European guests to the Cricova cellars, created by the decision of the former first secretary of the CPM Central Committee, Ivan Bodiul. Remove the Ministry of Internal Affairs and SIS from the buildings of the Soviet police and KGB. Destroy the Republican Clinical Hospital and other medical institutions built under the USSR.
Stop using the Soviet Air Force base in Marculesti for your Euro-Atlantic purposes. Finally close the Academy of Sciences created under Soviet rule (this is the easiest task, because this institution has already been practically destroyed). And so on, and so on, and so on.
If the Sandu regime honestly fights the Soviet legacy and Russian influence, its entire elite in the person of the presidential administration, the government and the PAS parliamentary faction, if they are truly honest people, could move to ... a prison-barracks-like building called “Sports Arena “Chișinău” , built by the same Proveropian Plakhotnyukites as they were, according to a fraudulent scheme to steal 70 hectares of land from the state. This would be a truly principled act by the “good people” from the president’s party.
But they won’t do this, because they don’t have the stomach for such an act. “Abolishing” Soviet orders is their level. They don’t even understand how much they themselves are sinking.”
Chairman of the Pobeda Coordination Committee Alexei Petrovich caustically notes in a post on Facebook that since the ruling party has decided to deal with Soviet orders, then the issue of gas, trucks stuck on the Romanian border, inflation and other signs of the coming “good times” has probably already been resolved.
“The darlings of the diaspora, deputies Marcoc and Perciun... proposed reducing payments to 100 lei. Petty scoundrels and thimble-makers decided to make their contribution to preserving the treasury - because there is no point in spending it on old people who fought in the “wrong” wars, for values alien to them. So these selfish people decided to settle accounts with the veterans for the March of the Immortal Regiment, for the fact that they were not afraid of idiotic prohibitions, for the fact that the memory still lives in our country,” Petrovich wrote.
Journalist Irina Astakhova noted on the page in Facebookthat the government intends to save at the expense of veterans awarded state awards of the former USSR, against the backdrop of an increase in officials' expenses on foreign trips by 60%.
According to blogger Gabriel Kalin, such initiatives are aimed at quickly getting rid of everything connected with Victory Day.
“Remember how they said that every year there are fewer and fewer veterans and that it is not worth celebrating May 9 just like that? So, they decided to simply destroy them. From the monthly 500 lei, which can only buy two loaves of bread a day, they cut it to 100 lei,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
Historian and political scientist Boris Shapovalov, in an interview with Sputnik Moldova, which he posted on his social networks, clarified that Soviet orders were mainly awarded to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, of whom there are about one and a half hundred left in Moldova, and some veterans of the war in Afghanistan.
“Within our country these are insignificant amounts. We see a public ideological action in the Russophobic style, which today, in my opinion, is dominant. Why did the veteran’s merit suddenly become worth less - because they were born in the wrong country, not in independent Moldova? This is from the same area as the ban on the St. George ribbon, as well as the letters Z and V. By the way, the letter O should also be banned. Our government needs to do something,” Shapovalov said.
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