Thousands March In Support of Reunifying Romania and Moldova

**poiuytrewq0987** · 10-23-2016, 10:25 PM

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 2,000 people marched through the Romanian capital Saturday demanding the country’s reunification with neighboring Moldova.

Demonstrators waved the virtually identical Romanian and Moldovan flags as they filed down the city’s main streets. They shouted “Bassarabia is part of Romania,” using the historical name for Moldova.

Some briefly scuffled with police. A photographer for The Associated Press saw police detain two people after fights broke out. Riot police said five were briefly detained and fined.

Organizer George Simion said protesters wanted political parties running in Romania’s December parliamentary elections to make reunification “a national project,” and take steps to integrate the neighbors, such as developing energy links and a joint currency.
Some protesters remained in a central square Saturday evening after the march ended.

Moldova was part of Romania until 1940, when it was annexed to the Soviet Union, and declared independence in 1991.

Some four-fifths of Moldovans, an Eastern European country of 4 million, are of Romanian descent. Romanian is the official language in Moldova, while Russian is widely used.

However, the reunification cause does not have much support in either Romania or Moldova.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016...mania-moldova/

**Crn Volk** · 10-23-2016, 10:39 PM

Did Romania occupy Moldova in WW2 and commit atrocities on the Moldovans? I'd be interested to know, since this is what happened when Bulgaria occupied Macedonia in WW2 when it's joined the Axis alliance.

**Seya** · 10-23-2016, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Sokol

Did Romania occupy Moldova in WW2 and commit atrocities on the Moldovans? I'd be interested to know, since this is what happened when Bulgaria occupied Macedonia in WW2 when it's joined the Axis alliance.

in WW2 Moldova was part of Romania...

Ülev · 10-23-2016, 10:45 PM

what with this "thing" ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

**~~Szegedist~~** · 10-23-2016, 10:46 PM

In 1881, Moldova was occupied by Romania, a state much younger than Moldova. Today a part of Moldova is still occupied by Romania.
Hopefully the good people of Moldova will resist the fascist Romanian antonescu Caeusescus wanabee

**RN97** · 10-23-2016, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Sokol

Did Romania occupy Moldova in WW2 and commit atrocities on the Moldovans? I'd be interested to know, since this is what happened when Bulgaria occupied Macedonia in WW2 when it's joined the Axis alliance.

Real "Moldovans" are Romanians, just like Romanians from Transylvania are Romanians and not Transylvanians. Today many have Russian/ Ukranian admixture and are culturally influenced by Russians. Moldova used to be Moldavia before it became Romania. It has never really been Russian/ Ukrainian.

**Crn Volk** · 10-23-2016, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Seya

in WW2 Moldova was part of Romania...

Macedonia was part of Bulgaria too, after the BG Army invaded from the East. They then set about a policy of Bulgarizing the population, against their will. See transcripts of the trial for war crimes of Asen Bogdanov, former head of police of the Skopje area (during the Bulgarian occupation), which took place on November 21, 1948 in Skopje

http://www.gate.net/~mango/Asen_Bogdanov.htm

**~~Szegedist~~** · 10-23-2016, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Sokol

Did Romania occupy Moldova in WW2 and commit atrocities on the Moldovans? I'd be interested to know, since this is what happened when Bulgaria occupied Macedonia in WW2 when it's joined the Axis alliance.

Yes they did, they committed mass genocide and even built concentrations camps ( like in Kishinev)