​UNIONISTS UNFOLD GIGANTIC TRICOLOR ACROSS CHISINAU CENTER, CELEBRATING NEIGHBORING COUNTRY’S HOLIDAY

Members and supporters of pro-Romania unionist association “Honor, Dignity and Motherland” (ODIP) today unfolded a tremendous tricolor across the central part of the Moldovan capital on the occasion of the National Days of Romania.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched from the monument to Moldova’s medieval Gospodar [King] Stefan cel Mare across the Great National Assembly Square and into the city’s main street carrying the 1-kilometer-long flag of Romania.

They were chanting incessantly “Bessarabia is a Romanian land”, “Chisinau and Bucharest are two Romanian hearts”, “Long live Moldova, Transylvania and the Romanian State”, “Unification!” etc.

ODIP leader Vlad Biletchi voiced confidence that “those who struggled for Moldova and promoted the unification of the two states in 1918 would be proud of the today’s manifestation participants”.

In his words, “To spite those who want bloodshed here, the unionists have managed to bring one kilometer of the tricolor to Chisinau!”

“Igor Dodon [president-elect] does not want unification, therefore he does not want a better life for citizens and wishes evil to them. He is annoyed that we have managed to organize this holiday action here. Dodon is not a Russian. He is a Moldovan, like is Iurie Rosca [the founder and many-year leader of the Christian Democratic Popular Party until recently and currently the CDPP Honorable Chairman], but they distort history and our Romanian language. They deliberately bring us at the loggerheads. We all are Romanians, no matter which side of the Prut River we live on. Long live Moldova! Long live Romania!” cried Biletchi.

The demonstrators called on all citizens of Moldova to work for Moldova’s unification with Mother Romania.

At the end of the manifestation, its organizers said they would cut the kilometer-long flag into 10-meter pieces and give them to various educational institutions.

The spectacular street action was dedicated to the 98th anniversary of Bessarabia’s unification with Romania.

Infotag’s dossier: The Great Union [Unirea] Day in Romania stems back to December 1, 1918 when the National Assembly of Romania sat in Alba Iulia city and passed a Resolution declaring the unification of all Romanians from Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina and Bessarabia with Mother Romania. Bessarabia [the mainland Moldova] remained within Romania until June 1940, when it was attached to the Soviet Union as a result of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.