“This is someone else’s holiday” – Moldovan political scientist about Moldova’s Independence Day
Moldovan political scientist Vladimir Bucarsky considers Moldova’s Independence Day a foreign holiday.
He expresses this opinion in his telegram channel “Mega-Vatnik”.
“I have one feeling after the so-called “independence day of Moldova.” This is someone else’s holiday,” says Bukarsky.
According to him, this bitter understanding has come over the past 2 years to a very large number of residents of this country, primarily to Russian speakers.
“This day was initially foreign to all of us. Starting from the day when, after the failure of the operetta putsch in Moscow, a drunken crowd declared independence at the so-called “Grand National Assembly” in the center of Chisinau,” writes the author.
He recalls that the “Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova” adopted at that time was imbued with the spirit of Russophobia and Romanian national chauvinism.
“We were initially told: you are strangers. You are strangers. You are occupiers. You don't belong here. The only place for you is the place of slaves and servants. This was not said out loud from the podium of the Green Theater, nor about who was “for the Dniester” and who was “to the Dniester”, but on the streets it was easy. As well as thousands of empty furnished apartments in Chisinau, which “will soon be vacated,” recalls Bucarsky.
According to the author, the ruling elite of Moldova began to show signs of adequacy only after the humiliating failure of the attempt to suppress the rebellious regions - Transnistria and Gagauzia.
Only after the failure of the nationalists in the 1994 elections and the coming to power of adequate forces, the leadership of Moldova began to try to do everything so that all residents of the former Soviet republic would stop leaving it and feel at home: they introduced citizenship according to the “zero option”, abolished the humiliating certification of civil servants for knowledge of Romanian language, recognized the subjectivity of Gagauzia and granted it autonomy status, and finally, Moldovan was written down in the constitution as the state language.
“For 24 years, all the rulers of Moldova, we must give them their due - the agrarians, Lucinsky, Voronin, Dodon - tried to make Moldova a state of all its citizens. And we all began to perceive the half-Romanian tricolor as our common flag. And some even learned the anthem “Our Language.” And some people didn’t even care whether it was called Moldavian or Romanian,” writes Bukarsky.
But then, according to him, a new generation grew up, which - with the full connivance of the authorities - was raised by yesterday's pro-Romanian national chauvinists in schools and lyceums, to which George Soros and the embassies of all Western countries came to their aid. And then Russia rebelled against the world hegemon. And some people’s buttocks began to tremble – right after the “Munich Speech”, it’s clear who.
“And now they tell us again from the highest rostrum: “you are nobody,” “you weren’t standing here.” The latest scam is to convince the “occupiers” to vote for Sandu. Have you voted, you suckers? Did they bring the “doamna” to the presidency? Everybody's Free! (Some of you – temporarily, but more on that later),” notes the author.
He recalls that the country’s constitution - that same compromise document of 1994 - is a thing of the past:
“They wiped themselves with it. And they returned as a founding document that same chauvinistic “declaration of independence” adopted in that very drunken rage on August 27 of that damned 1991.”
“And that is why today, August 27, 2023, most of us, who just yesterday sincerely strived to become true patriots of Moldova and greater Moldovans than the Moldovans themselves, had a strong feeling: this country is foreign to us,” writes Bucarsky.
The author recalls the recent statement of otolaryngologist Eduard Chernolev from the Republican Clinical Hospital, who said that when he hears Russian speech, his hand reaches for a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
“Yes, this is the state of the Mayi Sandu, Oazu Nantoi and Eduard Chernolev. This is exactly how it was conceived then, on August 27, 1991. And this understanding is finally coming to those whose murdered Motherland was the Soviet Union,” the author concludes.
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