Dodon complained that "Soviet Moldova" deprived of the status of a maritime state, and also allegedly "took away the south of the country and the north".
Pro-Russian politician of Moldova, leader of the Party of Socialists, former President of Moldova Igor Dodon declared encroachment on some Ukrainian lands, calling them “historically Moldovan”.
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Dodon commented on the statement of the ultra-right Romanian politician Kelin Georgescu, who called Ukraine a “fictional state” and called for the “division” of our state.
“I would like to point out to some politicians of the European Union, Romania and others who are already dividing up the lands of Ukraine. Firstly, the lands that you name are historically Moldovan, some of them. Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans still live there on their own land, and they speak the Moldovan language,” says the Moldovan “friend of Putin”
Dodon said that “Soviet Moldova” was deprived of its status as a maritime state, and that the south and north of the country were allegedly “taken away.”
The Moldovan politician also noted the need for negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation to end the war. He condemned the statement by Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who said that Chisinau would support Ukraine until the end of the war.
Why Dodon's statement is a historical manipulation
Note that Dodon's statement that allegedly “the south and north of Moldova” belongs to Ukraine is absolutely untrue and is a historical manipulation.
In fact, it was Ukraine that lost its ethnic lands of Transnistria when Moscow created the artificial entity of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924 (the territory of Bessarabia was then part of Romania).
“In the Moldavian autonomy, most of the districts had a Ukrainian majority. Of the 11 districts, only two had an absolute Moldavian majority and one had a relative majority. But Ukrainians made up an absolute majority in five districts and a relative majority in two; and one district, Tiraspol, due to Tiraspol itself, had a Russian majority population,” historian Gennady Efimenko told Radio Liberty.
And although in 1940, after the annexation of Bessarabia by the USSR, the northeastern regions of the MASSR were transferred to the Odessa region of Ukraine, most of the autonomous republic was transferred to the Moldavian SSR.
Note that for some time the Ukrainian SSR owned the territories with Lipkany, Briceni and Oknitsa.
However, these The lands were then transferred to the Moldavian SSR.
Moldovans or Romanians: historical background
The state of Moldova occupies almost the entire historical region of Bessarabia (the southern part of Bessarabia is part of the Odessa region, a small northern strip is part of the Chernivtsi region region). Although the historical region named Moldova is located in Romania.
The current territory of Moldova became part of the Romanian Kingdom in 1918. In 1940, the USSR annexed Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, as well as the small county of Hertsa (part of old Romania that was never part of Bukovina or Bessarabia, now roughly the territory of the former Hertsaevsky district of the Chernivtsi region).
Romanian nationalists who support the idea of România Mare (Greater Romania) believe that their state should include not only the Republic of Moldova, but also Chernivtsi and the southern part of Odessa regions.
Note that in his interview Igor Dodon mentioned the “Moldovan people” and the “Moldovan language”. However, the Moldovan right considers itself Romanians, while the separateness of the Moldovan people is defended mainly by pro-Russian parties.
The issue of unification of Moldova and Romania arose again after the Romanian revolution of 1989 and Moldova's independence in 1991 and periodically emerges in the information field.
Let us clarify right away that it is completely incorrect to draw analogies in the relations between Moldova and Romania and Ukraine and the Russian Federation. In Moldova, right-wing parties and nationalists advocate rapprochement with Romania and support the renaming of the Moldovan language to Romanian. While critics of Bucharest and supporters of the name “Moldovan language” are predominantly pro-Russian political forces.
In the spring of 2023, a law was adopted in Moldova that provides for the replacement of the phrase “Moldovan language” in all laws and the Constitution with “Romanian language”. During the vote, Moldovan deputies even fought.
The Ukrainian government also abandoned the term “Moldovan language”. From now on, Romanian is recognized as the state language of Moldova.
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