The Liberal Party’s new initiative to outlaw the St. George Ribbon in Moldova is but a premeditated provocation destabilizing inter-ethnic accord in the multinational civil society of Moldova, maintains Igor Tulyantsev, leader of the organization “Our Motherland is the Eurasian Union” and chairman of the Council “For the Motherland!”.

 

Tulyantsev stated at a news conference at Infotag that if the liberal forces do not give up “their delirious and blasphemous plans of insulting the memory of fallen warriors and their heroism, the true patriots are reserving the right to come out for civil actions of protest and disobedience and of picketing state institutions, where instead of solving the country’s pressing problems, certain forces plot provocations and distribute neo-Nazi outlooks”.

 

Tulyantsev said that due to the Liberals’ provocations, this year the St. George Ribbon campaign was launched not in April as usually but on March 16.

 

“The distribution of the Ribbons has begun not one month before the Great Victory day [May 9] as in previous years, but nearly 2 months before it, and in a few days the world’s longest Ribbon will be unfolded before the Liberal Party office in Chisinau. May be LP leader Mihai Ghimpu will then give up his new delusion”, said the organization leader.

 

The organization addressed to the representatives of European and wider international structures, to the embassies of the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, political parties, Moldovan Parliament deputies and members of the Moldovan Government, to all who venerates the memory of anti-fascists who perished during the Second World War “to unite efforts, to condemn and prevent the banning of the St. George Ribbon, desecration of military memorials and revival of neo-Nazism in Moldova”.

 

Patria Party Chairman Emil Ciobu, Moldova’s former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, said that by wearing the St. George Ribbons, the Moldovan society must demonstrate its civil position and attitude to the question.

 

In his words, Moldova is the only country in the world, where the youth is forced to study the history of a foreign state, and where the authorities refuse to bring up and educate true patriots of the land they live on.

 

“The authorities’ incorrect attitude to the Great Patriotic War [of the Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany, June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945] is only a part of the problem of a modern Moldovan State. The question of forming a civil consciousness has been in a catastrophic state in our republic because the country’s supreme authorities are speaking of liquidation of the Moldovan statehood as such. This is why it is so important to be united in the struggle for people’s interests and for our historic memory”, said Emil Ciobu.