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Partidul politic Dreapta Political party The Right Parti politique La Droite Partido politico La Derecha Str.Lazo, 3, Chișinău Republica Moldova Tel. (022) 83 53 50; 068660403 www.dreapta.md www.rightgov.eu UNIFICATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA WITH ROMANIA – ROMANIAN NATION SHOULD BE REUNIFIED Chișinău – 2016 Unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania – Romanian Nation Should Be Reunified TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………...………. 3 II. Occupation of Moldova between the Prut and the Dniester rivers, by the Tsarist Russia …………………………………….……………………… 4 III. Unification of Moldova with Wallachia and Formation of the Modern Romania ………………………..………………….………………………………………………………………….. 7 IV. Liberation of Bessarabia from Tsarist Domination and its Unification with Romania ……………………………………..…...…………………………………………… 9 V. Soviet Attempts to Recover Bessarabia and Beginning of anti-Romanian Manipulations …………….……………………………………..……………………………… 1 3 VI. From a Legitimate Part of Romania to a Soviet Colony ……... 18 VII. Proclamation of the State Republic of Moldova and its Destiny ……………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………... 25 VIII. Who We Are and What Do We Want? …………………………………………………………… 31 - 2 - Political Party THE RIGHT I. INTRODUCTION For almost 25 years, on the map of Europe, there is a small country located between Romania and Ukraine. This is the Republic of Moldova. Photo 1. The Republic of Moldova today. Administrative Map. - 3 - Unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania – Romanian Nation Should Be Reunified Although its existence is known by all countries of the world and by the United Nations, the Republic of Moldova is actually the result of a plan developed by the Kremlin in the early 1920s, in order to divide the Romanian nation. To clarify this problem, we will refer to the most important histo- rical stages. II. OCCUPATION OF MOLDOVA BETWEEN THE PRUT AND THE DNIESTER RIVERS, BY THE TSARIST RUSSIA At the end of XVIIIth century, which is also the time of the French Revolution, the Ottoman Turkey began to lose war after war against the Tsarist Russia. These wars erupted because of the Russians who wanted to recover the city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, taken by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and transformed into the capital of their empire. To achieve this goal, Russia needed to replace the suzerainty or the direct Ottoman government in the Balkan Peninsula, by their own domination. Slavic peoples from the Balkans, especially the Serbs and the Bul- garians, were the specific points of interest of Russia. The Russians hoped to attract them to their side against the Ottomans, and even integrate them into the Russian Empire. Russia was struggling to implement its plans because there were a Latin people, the Romanians, who spoke a neo-Romance language, Romanian. This people were living in three countries: Transylvania, Muntenia and Moldova. Muntenia and Moldova were under Ottoman suzerainty, but had struggled to succeed in keeping intact their own culture, Christian religion and lifestyle. The Ottoman Turks have no right to colonize - 4 - Political Party THE RIGHT the Romanian lands or to impose their religion, their language or their traditions on those territories. Photo 2. The Romanian space in the Middle Ages. The territory between the Prut and the Dniester is part of Moldova till 1812. The XIXth century begins with a new great war between Russians and Turks. This time again, the territory of the both Romanian principalities serves as battlefield and supply base, initially for the two the both belligerent parties, and then only for Russia, which keeps under occupation the both principalities from 1806 to 1812. Its plans for territorial extension aimed both principalities, the Danube would become the border between the Ottoman and the Russian empires. But the worsening of relations between Russia and France and the beginning of Napoleon’s military campaign against Russia determined Petersburg to temper its claims, by li- miting them to the whole principality of Moldova, and then to Mol- dova extended to the Siret River. Finally, Russia accepted the proposal - 5 - Unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania – Romanian Nation Should Be Reunified of the Turks to follow the line of Prut and divided the Romanian Moldova into two parts, East and West. The Turks “surrendered” to Russia a territory that was not theirs, which was not part of the Ottoman Empire, an area they didn’t have the right to assign, according to the status of their suzerainty on Romanian principalities. As a result, in 1812, Moldova is divided; its territory between the Prut and the Dniester becomes part of the Russian Empire. To distinguish it from the rest of Moldova and invent a distinct re- gional identity, the Russians called it Bessarabia. In fact, they didn’t merely extend over the whole area the territory between the Prut and the Dnie- ster, the name used to define only the south part of this Photo 3. In 1812 the Russian Empire annexes the interfluve. This na- territory between the Prut and the Dniester and creates me originates from the province (then Guberniya) of Bessarabia. the ruling dynasty of Wallachia, the Basarab, who had exercised power over the southern territories of Moldova, including the mouths of the Danube and the Black Sea coastline. After the abusive annexation to the Russian Empire, the eastern part of Moldova, which had become the province of Bessarabia, was subjected to successive waves of colonization, that have signi- ficantly decreased the percentage of the Romanian local population, - 6 - Political Party THE RIGHT from 95% in 1812 to 47%, according to official data of population census in 1897. At the same time, the tsarist regime gradually banned the use of Romanian language in administration and education, and consequently, at the beginning of the XXth century just 10% of Romanian major ethnics were able to read and write. The representatives of colonizing ethnics receive preferential treatment, getting tax exemptions and fertile lands for agricultural activities, while the majority of Romanian ethnics are deprived of land and depend on the nobility, a social class russified during the time and where the percentage of nobles coming from outside of Bessarabia begin to exceed, with no right of appeal, the number of nobles, descendants from ancient families of Moldova. The major Romanian population is discriminated on ethno-cultural criteria. To access the functions and benefits granted by the Russian imperial administration, the elite representatives were imposed to pass through russification and abandon their own culture and their own language. Any demonstration in favour of a closer relationship with Romanians from Moldova and Muntenia was severely pu- nished. The tsarist regime begins to clog the connections between the Romanians, especially since 1848, when a revolution breaks out within the Romanian lands, Moldova and Muntenia. The objectives of this event were both democratic and focused on national liberation and the union of principalities in one state. III. UNIFICATION OF MOLDOVA WITH WALLACHIA AND FORMATION OF THE MODERN ROMANIA Finally, the movement of liberation and unification of the Romanian Principalities, put into practice by the representatives of the young generation having studied in the West, most of them in - 7 - Unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania – Romanian Nation Should Be Reunified Paris, has been successful. In 1859, the elected assemblies of the both principalities elected the same person, the Moldovan Alexandru Ioan Cuza, as prince of both States, event that started the unification of Moldova and Muntenia. The unified state was named Romania, re- flecting the name of the people do- cumentarily attested in the Middle Ages and its Roman origin. In the second part of the XIXth century Ro- mania knew a period of rapid mo- dernization and economic, political and cultural progress, which transformed it into a point of attraction for many people of the same ethni- Photo 4. Alexandru Ioan Cuza, city and speaking the same lan- born in Moldova, elected to the throne of Moldova and Wallachia guage, from the territory beyond the in 1859, main architect of the Prut, today’s Republic of Moldova – unification process of the both Romanian countries during the at that time, the Russian Guberniya years 1859-1862 and the creation of Bessarabia. of Romania. The existence of Romania as a state of the Romanian nation, although after 1878, the year of the international recognition of its independence, its boundaries were covering not even half of the Romanian ethnic space, it was a landmark for Romanian intellect- tuality from Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina and not least from Bes- sarabia. - 8 - Political Party THE RIGHT Photo 5. The United principalities of Moldova and Wallachia, named Romania in 1862. The southern part of Bessarabia, returned to Moldova by the Russian Empire, after its defeat in the Crimean War. IV. LIBERATION OF BESSARABIA FROM TSARIST DOMINATION AND ITS UNIFICATION WITH ROMANIA In the context of the first Russian Revolution (1905-1907) and the relative liberalization of social and political life, in Bessarabia there was a phenomenon aimed to create active groups of intel- lectuals who started a movement for claiming national rights for the Romanian ethnic majority, discriminated by the tsarist autho- rities. This movement continues until the First World War. This is also the time for

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