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PATRIOTIC NGOs CALL NOT TO BE NOSE-LEAD BY PRO-ROMANIA ORGANIZATIONS
23
march,
2016
Several non-governmental organizations, including the Voievod youth movement, the Youth Government, the Scutul Moldovenesc [Moldovan Shield] citizens association, and the Young Guards, have called Moldova citizens to get united to promote the Moldovan culture, traditions and history, and not to be nose-led by the organizations of unionists [adherents to the idea of Unire – Moldova’s unification with Romania].
Dumitru Roibu, Chairman of the Center for Cooperation with the Youth, said at a news conference at Infotag that seeing the current feverish unire activities and propaganda in Moldovan schools, being run by numerous pro-Romania organizations not registered officially, one comes to feel a real horror.
In his words, the pro-Romania organizations involve the Moldovan youth under unification banners, whereas the complete inactivity of school administrations indicates that the directors spit on the law and do not regard this problem as something important.
“The pro-Romania organizations not registered in Moldova are trying to attract the Moldovan society with speculations about pensions, scholarships, salaries, saying that they are higher in Romania. But may be in such case we should get united with Bulgaria, where these pays are yet higher?” questioned Roibu.
Voievod Chairman Nicolae Pascaru said that historians interpret the events of March 27, 1918 differently: some – that it was an important event, while other ones as a tragedy for Bessarabia [the present-day mainland Republic of Moldova – without the Transnistrian region].
He believes that instead of wasting time on useless political debates, the nation should better focus on hard work to strengthen the Moldovan statehood, on solving all problems by using diplomatic means “because the happiness of our nation is not in Bucharest or Moscow or Brussels”.
Dr. Sergiu Nazaria, Chairman of the Pro Moldova Association of Historians and Political Scientists stated that those who mark March 27 as the Day on unification of Bessarabia with Romania “in fact have no knowledge of history or they deliberately interpret history erroneously because the Sfatul Tarii [Council of the Country] voted for the unification on March 27 according to the so-called ‘old style’ – to the Julian Calendar, so to mark this date according to the ‘new style’ [Gregorian Calendar] is not correct”.
Ion Muntean, Chairman of the organization called “Eu Sunt Moldovan, Eu Graiesc Moldoveneste” [I am a Moldovan, and I Speak Moldovan], is convinced that “the unionists receive money for a pleasant stroll along Chisinau streets, but in case of need they will never agree to war for unification”.
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