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if Moldova enter in EU , people from there will emigrate to the West not to Romania...(most of them will be like romanians in 2007 when the country entered EU, that means = massive migration in West) ...as romanian i know they were our people until 1940, but the current population of Moldova is in "soviet- USSR" mindset in majority! (60%) , incompatible with the current mindset of romanians (pro-West) , recent was an exit poll (before invasion of Russia in Ukraine) and they were asked if they want to reunite with Romania , 60% said NO! they want with Russia ! but that was BEFORE invasion of Russia in Ukraine , as romanian i don't want "russian" mindset inside Romania , will be a major problem for current Romania
@@dand7763 last poll said 58.3% of Moldovans support EU, 40% support unification with Romania. Why reject your own brother after he has been brainwashed? Wouldn't you rather help him because he is your brother? In 2016 only 17% of Moldovans wanted unification. Have patience.
@@9_9876 will be ready EU to pay massive for this reunification? because it's impossible for romanians (still many in poverty) to sustain (alone) such event ... not just some billions ,EU members must pay in every year many many Billions euro , for a period of 10 years (at least) otherwise will be a failure! and romanians will do many steps back ,will remain the poor people of EU , without massive financial aid , Romania will become bankrupt ,and we don't want this to happen
@@dand7763 eu is extremely rich. This is also for countering ruzzian influence. The war has attracted attention to Moldova and Ukraine. Europe has been helping both more. Also be reminded that it's not like those 10 billion will be instantly invested. And they're also not all waste, some of them will return with time. I think it's possible with nice planning. There is no reason to rush it. Union shouldn't be declared right after the referendum results PS: unification is estimated to cost 10 billion euro
@@9_9876 just 10 billions ?! maybe 10 Billions in every year , all to be invested 10 years in a row! and all going in Moldova infrastructure , Chisinau needs this "cheese" not Bucharest!
As a Romanian, this video is one of the most documented and best researched out there! Love to Latvia and all of our Eastern Europe brothers and sisters!
You shouldn't want this... western Ukrainains are really poles that will drag you into their anti slav agenda... Dacia is yours not the children of serially conquered and culturally confused poles
@@mariodezert as a roumanain ,I was planning to visit Brazil (I find tickets with 434 euro ),but not all things work as planned,but when you will come to our country you will find very frendly ,safe and beutyfull country and similar with your country because we speak roumanian which a latin language very similar with portuguese
Ppl outside the area may not realize yet what the Soviets did in Moldova/Basarabia with the "Moldovan" language that was supposedly different language than Romanian. It's very easy to explain : It's like claiming that Austrians don't speak German language but "Austrian" language . Yes they switched to Cyrillic alphabet so it would be easier to fool everyone, but today you can just open Google Translate... select translation from English to Romanian, and send that to a person from Republic of Moldova and he will read it in his native tongue ...no questions asked. As hard to believe it may be, they (the Russkiy mir/"Russian world" people) still claim to this day that Moldovan is a different language... lol. P.s. Romania didnt just gain independence from Ottomans from Russo Turkish war... but participated with massive contribution in Bulgaria to gain it, against the ottomans, where the Russian army was stuck.
How would they be able to read Romania if they only know how to read the Cyrillic alphabet? Clearly they are the same language but I don’t understand your premise of the Google translate, showing a Moldovan Latin based Romanian, I don’t see how they could read it when the Cyrillic alphabet is so different.
@@RobotWithHumanHair. The Cyrillic alphabet was abandoned many years ago... I think soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain in `89. Rep. of Moldova uses the latin alphabet for a very long time now... I didnt write all history in that short comment.
@@RobotWithHumanHair. the cyrillic alphabet was in place just during the soviet times. they switched to latin in 1989 I believe (2 years before the breakup of the ussr, during the perestroika/glasnost period).
I think the brainwashing started after the war.Maybe young people think Romania opens more possibilities to them,but it was separated for too long ,in fact many Romanians dontdon't care about this Republic.Few years ago they looking towards Moscow in order to realize something in life.Now politics has changed.They are brainwashed by the West.As Romanian born and living in Romania I don't have any sympathy for Moldavians and I'm sure they want only a faster way to rich the EU.When I'm listening to most of them speaking awful Romanian with a pronounced russian,it's difficult to accept they are the same people accent
Yes, unfortunately older people are the slowest to adapt! Even in Romania itself! Most older generations still dream of Ceaushescu & Elena and 1975! 😒 You can't blame them really... it was their "time of glory", it's difficult to let go...
As a Romanian, I say NO to unification. We don't need a Russian minority added to our country. It would be reason for endless conflict. They would refuse to integrate and learn the language. They would demand schools in the Russian language. They would have strong connections to Russia. They would change the political climate. Our border would be to close to Russia. If our non-Russian Moldovan brothers want to move to Romania they are welcome! But no unification.
Collectivisation in the USSR was not about redistributing the land between peasants. It was about creating state-controlled farms where peasants were forced to work.
Carving out Transsilvania from Hungary was the similar crime. Punishing a colony for the crime commited their oppressor. Keeping Austria almost intact and tearing apart Hungary, their opressed colony. When Hungary tried to be independent from their opressor earlier in 1848 the same countries helped Austria who later created the Trianon pact. Probably the 1st and 2nd WW would not happen if Hungary won in 1848. Before that Hungary was the last defending line against many attackers from Asis who wanted to overrun Europe.
@@LILEE376he difference is that in Transylvania Hungarians never had a majority before/during/ or after their occupation. You can check that in loads of Hungarian History books even in GestaHungarorum.
@@LILEE376 hungary never existed in europe, transilvania was an automous state that chosed to join the Austro Hungary empire just by fear to be attacker by the others ones, but after the empire collapsed they choosed by their own to unify with the 2 others states to form todays Romania. Transylvania was always populated by Vlachs; Dacians, Romanians people was before hungary was created
@@LILEE376The German Science Society had some ethnic map prepared periodically since 1800. Vienna also had ethnic maps during the same period of time, with the same situation clearly presented. You can find them with ease on internet. All of these maps were showing that Székely (or Hungarians) were living in some limited areas, near mountains, where they had also the majority. Exactly where they are living nowadays. Two counties out of 12. The rest of Transylvania was populated by Romanians in an absolute majority. And the overall percentage was - during the time - at least 80% Romanians and 15% Hungarians. Nowadays Hungarians are more or less about 15% of the total population of Transylvania. Same way, Austro-Hungarian empire occupied Slovakia, but Hungarians were always maximum 15% of the overall population. This is how empires work. In 1918 you lost your empire.....and this was good for all. If - by absurd - you occupy Transylvania again, Hungarians will became a minority. Pay attention to what you want. Moreover, do not overestimate 1948. Hungary had a limited role in 1948 as well as in 1919. And the other statement "last defending line against many attackers from Asia who wanted to overrun Europe" is wrong again. All European nations fought against ottomans or other tribes including your ancestor's tribes. All coming from Asia, of course.
Moldova has confirmed this year that Romanian is their national language in their constitution and it is to be referred to as that from now on, instead of Moldovan which is really just a dialect of Romanian.
As a speaker of Romanian, I can tell you that Moldovan is not even a dialect but what we call a "grai", that is a subdialect. I can communicate with our brothers in Moldova easily. And yes! I feel the moment we'll be reunited is ever closer. Thank God for Ukraine! I pray for their victory
@@Radubusă fim sinceri noi schimbăm accentul și vocabularul când vorbim cu români. Între moldoveni, vorbim cu un accent și vocabular mai rusesc dar nu contează, suntem români și vorbim limba română! Chiar dacă țările noastre nu vor fi unite în sensul politic, noi mereu vom fi uniți. 🇲🇩🤝🇷🇴
@@AGC2021it’s not an accent it’s a dialect, Romanians has two dialects: ardeleneste and moldoveneste and within those dialects there are hundreds of different accents.
@@Qwerty1637i the true Romanian dialects are Aromanian, Istroromanian and Meglenoromanian, and they all can be found only in the Balkans! The phonetic of Romanian, slightly different in Transilvania, Moldova or Oltenia doesn't make the Romanian spoken in those regions "dialects", because only the accents are different, and i can perfectly understand everything they say, despite the fact that i'm from Muntenia!
In spite of being Russian I understand that Moldovans will be richer and have more opportunities with EU rather than with my country. No wonder that a young generation is looking to Europe with a hope.
It's sad but Russia has always had bad leaders hell bend on colonizing the world. If I were Russian, I'd never vote for an ethnically Russian male ever again since that's the demographic most responsible for the terror. Of course, voting in Russia rarely has mattered in history so it's really pointless to try.
Is not against Rusia, we dont have nothing with Rusia, but teritorial Moldova is România, so moldovians în the future wil return în the romanian family.
Thank you! The problem is that we Romanians 🇷🇴 don’t want anything to do with Transnistria where they still have a Supreme Soviet and hammer and sickle on their flag 😅 Would you like or care to take it? 😅
As a Moldovan with both Romanian and Ukrainian ancestry, I hope for a unification between Romania and Moldova. Though if there is even the slightest chance of it not happening, we Moldovans and Romanians are the same people. 🇲🇩🤝🇷🇴 Trăiască România
@@СергійТерещук-о5в a lot of us do have ties with Ukraine including myself, not to mention for how long Moldova has been part of both the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and not to mention Moldovans complicated history of being part of big Slavic empires such as the Kieven Rus as one of them. It is not to be said we are not Romanians though, we always were and always will be, though Moldovans are much more likely to have ties to Slavs than Romanians.
@@BalkanVlachthat is, you still admit that you are "not such Romanians." It's like the Dutch and Flanders, Germans and Austrians. That's reason enough for them to have their independent states...
@@СергійТерещук-о5в not really like the Dutch or Germans. We have the same culture, dances and food, and we speak the same language as the Romanians. A lot of us do have Slavic ancestry as many Moldovans and Romanians do but we are Romanians all the way.
@@utvm6748no one really LIKES capitalism, but social democracy is the closest economically viable system to Marxist ideals of equality anyone in the world has achieved thus far. It relies on a capitalist market to fund social services. While the Warsaw Pact nations were failing Scandinavia was thriving. You should need little more evidence As for NATO, can Romania defend itself without an international military alliance? No. Would Russia like to seize influence and control in Romania? Yes. So ... What's your alternative? I see none right now.
There is no alternative. You will hear 15% Romanians which are being pulled by a new self-proclaimed nationalist party (AUR), claiming otherwise. That is not the case. The aforementioned party is funded by Russia. Those 15% are either uneducated or incapable of higher thought. Just ignore them.
In Romania and Rep. Moldova there is one language, Romanian language that has no dialects (so called Daco-Romanian dialect aka Romanian Language). There are other 3 dialects that are not in Romania or Rep. Moldova. The other 3 dialects are: Istro-Romana (in Croatia), Aromanians (in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia) and Megleno-Român (Bulgaria Greece).
Go please to Moldova and look carefully, how people are speaking. In 1994 I had to admit in the COLEGIUL AGRICOL at Taul, Moldova, that there is a lot of russian (or sovjetic?) infiltrations to be found in the “roumanian language”, which made that language in some parts not comprehensible at all. As a German, who studied since 1979 peasants life in different regions of Romania, I got used as well to “moroseneste”, i.e. the old dialect of Maramureș. But in Republica Moldova the communication had been sometimes awful, because one couldn’t get the sense…. You are sounding like the “Dictionarul ale limbii Romane” din timpul lui Ceausescu. Can You follow me?
@@stephandrube8658 ...dear don't give to a Romanian lessons about his language, please ... between "bucurestean accent" and "moldovean accent" is like when a Scotish speak with somebody from London ... for you is hard to understand ... for me is not ... and I speak abut the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF MOLDOVA (ROMANIAN, the language that they learn in school) ... the grammar and vocabulary are identical in BOTH COUNTRIES .... also, you have to know that we have 4 Classical Writers: 2 of them are form Moldova: Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.Ion Creanga in special brought in the Romania literature "dulcele grai moldovenesc", I repeat to be uderstood: DULCELE GRAI MOLDOVENESC (Grai is sg. from GRAIURI). You don't understand THE MOLDAVIAN ACCENT and THE REGIONAL VOCABULARY .... But the language is VERY ROMANIAN ... I repeat, THERE ARE NOT DIALECTS ON THE ROMANIAN AND R.MOLDOVA TERITORIES ... what you call DIALECT is actually GRAIURI !!!! it is something else that YOU CAN NOT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU WAS NOT BORN AND YOU WERE NOT RAISED IN ROMANIA !!!!! also there is GRAIUL MARAMURESEAN ... there is NOT "DIALECT MARAMURESEAN" ...
@@stephandrube8658 ... here lesson for C programing language (Surprise ... the "Moldavian language" in the video is IDENTICAL with my language, Romanian , I repeat, IT IS IDENTICAL !!!!!!!!! ): ua-cam.com/video/xtlOyoWInHA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ABCodeMoldova
@@stephandrube8658 it is because of the Russian language and occupation influence my dear fellow..that is why...but Moldovan and Romanian are the same...you are a bit limited in your research if not biased! Have you been in Moldova recently? or have you heard a Romanian speaking with a Moldovan ...both in Romanian? hmm?
@@stephandrube8658 the dialects are only Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, all of them found in ex-Yugoslavia and Albania. The Romanian language spoken in Moldova, Transilvania, Maramures etc can't be called a "dialect", but an accent! You don't know anything about our language...
Yugoslavia separated? Czechoslovakia separated? Greater Russia disbanded? Greater Rzechpospolita demolished? Ireland separated? Pakistan and India separated? The list is going on and on. This is called history. You gotta unwind quite a lot and open quite a few Pandora boxes under the pretext of claiming historical land back.
Well, because East and West Germany was called East and West GERMANY for a reason. Meanwhile Its not called East and West Romania or Moldova, those are two separate countries.
@@gaborrajnai6213 but the Western part of the Principality of Moldova is part of Romania / founded Romania in 1859 by uniting with Wallachia. The Rep of Moldova is just the Eastern part of the Principality of Moldova. Most moldovans 5 million live in Romania, all the moldovan capitals (Iasi, Suceava, Baia) are in Romania, the river Moldova is in Romania, all the moldovan hystoric figures (poets, intellectuals, leaders, etc) lived in Western Moldova which is part of / founded Romania since 1859.
@@gaborrajnai6213 Are you sure that you didn't wrote a nonsense? Who called this country "Moldavia"? Not russia??? Sorry but what russia says is usually a big trash. Your name is Gabor....shall I remember you the 1956 moment in Hungary? Or the Czechoslovakia in 1968? Why russia came to Hungary? For a party?
The two governments can agree about it, at least. No one asked the population during pandemics, why would they do now? Ofc we don’t need this stupid border(s) dividing us. Imagine having to wait 5 hours at the customs, or fearing to be shot by transnistria’s “border patrol”, Jeez.
When were they actually unified? In fact 'Romania' didn't even exist until about 150 years ago. It's funny how any Western European nationalism is deconstructed but the fancies of 'Romanian' and 'Ukrainian' nationalists are treated as gospel truth.
@@mitchyoung93 Buddy, all 3 major romanian medieval states were reunited during the reign of Michael the Brave, some 420 years ago. Also, stfu exposing your precious opinion, and if you don't know something feel free to ask.
As a Romanian, I say NO to unification. We don't need a Russian minority added to our country. It would be reason for endless conflict. They would refuse to integrate and learn the language. They would demand schools in the Russian language. They would have strong connections to Russia. They would change the political climate. Our border would be to close to Russia. If our non-Russian Moldovan brothers want to move to Romania they are welcome! But no unification.
@@nedal1alex123 Alo, toate tarile au teritorii in alte tari...Asa si ungurii vor ardealul, bulgarii dobrogea, etc..O sa le dam trasnistria la schimb pe bucovina
Romanian here, I hope one day you guys won't struggle like you do now. I can't wait for a time when I know for certain your families don't worry at all about making ends meet.
I see many people give as reference many nations in Europe that are similar but not the same. It is not the case with Romania and Moldova. We are the same people. Historic Moldova united with Transilvania and Wallachia and formed Romania. The guy who formed the first union between Walachia and Moldova was originally from Moldova. His name is Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Historical Moldova's capitals are all located in Romania. All the important poets and writers were born in Western Moldova, aka Romania. All their culture, music and food is rooted in Romania. Their identity is ROMANIAN. Republic of Moldova is only the eastern part of the Historical Moldova who joined the other 2 romanian states to form Romania. My wife is from R. Moldova, I am from center of Romania and I can tell you that apart of the accent and a few regional words (regional synonyms that all Romanians know but we use them. less) , nothing is different.
Pretty good video, I am a Romanian who is reads daily news on Moldova. However there's some things that you've got quite wrong First the pronunciation of Gagauzia. Rather than Gau-gezia, it'd be Gaga-uzia. You presented Moldova as trapped in severe crises but these are largely over. Prices and inflation have gone down and Moldova has already solved it's gas dependency on russia. Moldova does not export gas from russia anymore. It is in fact Romania the one that helped Moldova overcome the crisis. Transnistria is not an impediment for Moldova for becoming a full member of the EU. The EU has stated Moldova will be able to join following the Cyprus precedent. Lastly, you could've mentioned the unionist movement and the impact that war has had on it. Recently a poll indicated 40% of Moldovans supported unification of Romania while 50.3% opposed it. This is a two year high and the second biggest result ever since Moldovan independence, and it is bound to grow. All those russian strategies to undermine Moldova reduced unionist and pro-European sentiment in Moldova, but as Moldova has successfully combated these crises, both are going up again in the last recent months. To me it'd appear that unionism will keep growing, specially considering that Romanian is now the official language in the Moldovan constitution.
I already commented while editing the audio to him that his pronounciation of Gagauzia would result in comments about it, which was after I had noted him before his recording of the audio that it's Gagauzia (though I had also read it gaugazia originally xd) and after it had become a bit too late to rerecord such a minor problem. Just some little production schenanigans :D
"Nobody can put an artificial border between people who speak the same language" - I presume you agree with the transfer of majority Hungarian settlements along the Hungarian-Romanian border too
Idk dude. There's plenty of countries that share a language with an artificial border. Most of South America, US/Canada, the Swahili region in Africa, the Middle East, India/Pakistan, and probably some other examples that I'm forgetting would beg to differ. I think that the will of the people should be far more important than perceived linguistic and ethnic differences
Simple: do Romanians consent to unification? Do Moldovans consent? If yes, go ahead and do it. Fast track into the EU for Moldova, they're already an applicant.
As long as there is a teritorial dispute no one can unite no matter what they want...since Romania is in NATO...and NATO will have to eliberate Transnistria under articole 5 which means going against Russia...this is an old Russion strategy occupy and deport locals to claim majority and stop any idea of a unification
@@Outcast100 That’s not entirely true. Territorial disputes aren’t a hindrance in joining the EU, so that’s a possibility for Moldova (which already is a candidate country). A territorial dispute in Moldova wouldn’t stop it from becoming NATO territory if Moldova reunited with the NATO country Romania since the latter already is in NATO. However, an independent Moldova won’t be able to join NATO for as long as there is a territorial dispute. A reunified Romania would currently mean Russian troops in NATO. So if Russia wants to avoid war with NATO, it would have to withdraw its troops from Transnistria.
USSR killed and deported Moldovans from Moldovan SSR which affirmed Romanian identity. Simultaneously, they broadcasted on a daily basis a lot of lies, such as: ”Romanians were mean occupants, we came to free you up! Romanians are bad, but lucky you Moldovans - you are a different people!” In USSR normally other socialist countries literature (Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, etc) could be bought. However, even socialist Romanian books / press were forbidden in Moldovan SSR, in spite (or rather due to) the greatest demand. USSR tried to severe all ties of East-Moldovans with Romania. That is why the USSR propaganda partially succeeded. Today 80% of population in R. Moldova are ethnic Romanians (”Moldovans”) but only 50% of them (40% of total population) supports re-unification with Romania. The good thing is the Soviet lying propaganda gradually washes out, the support for reunification slowly increases.
Travelling in Rep.Moldova since 1994, I had been this time quite surprised, when a lot more people I got to know, sublined, that Republica Moldova should remain ne-utral. And this just in the month of the “Chisinău-Meeting” for joining the EU in may. They started to deliver their excellent wines and tasteful vegetables to Central Asia, India and China. In European Community we are already fed up by these😢
If you look at the two most corrupt European countries you will find that they are Moldova and Ukraine. There is a reason that NATO rushed Sweden and Finland into NATO as they bring economic and military pluses. You can say the same can be said for EU
Moldovan Republic aka Bessarabia, the bigger part and the most Moldovans from the historical Moldova are Romanians, inside Romania since the 1859 union with Wallachia. Two Romanian principalities..
do yall greeks want to join with cyprus as 1 nation? im curious if nationalism is still alive in european countries im iranian and i like the idea to join kurds and afghans to iran
@@notatroll78 Would Kurds & Afghans want that? From what I know, Kurdish people wanted their own country & Afghanistan fought hard for independence. The unifications between RO-MD and GR-CY are about territories inhabitted by the same people/ethnicity, largely speaking. And it's a mutual sentiment, like with Kosovo & Albania for example. Not about territorial gains of other peoples...
Great video! You should make one on the same topic with Bulgaria. It would be pretty easy too, just take this video and switch the following words: Romania-Bulgaria; Moldova-Macedonia; Transylvania-Thrace; Bucovina-Western Outlands (don't forget northern Dobruja as well) and you're done! All the historical processes that you outlined in this video are essentially identical to the ones that took place in the regions that I listed. Looking forward to it!
Before you mention north Dobroja, aka Carvuna in medieval times, don't forget to mention the ancestors of Romanians, the Geto Dacians of upper and lower Moesia, up to Haemi Mountains, the guys who gave the name of the Valkan peninsula, and then the Romans, the guys attested to live there cummulated for more than 1800 years before the Turanic Onogundur turk gang showed up about 680 and made an empire out of majority former Romans, already proto - Romanians by that time, on their own land, then using the language of Sclaveni of Ohrida in administration and church to distance themselves from the Greeks and Catholics in Rome, while still calling themseves real Romans. Cheers former Romanian brothers from south Danube.
Today's Romania is a pretty cool country. We have offices in Timisoara and have looked at Cluj as well. Both cities are very european and love working with our romanian colleagues. They are great engineers and professionals.
As someone who is pro-Russia, I suppport the reunification and seriously don't understand what these idiotic Soviets thought when dividing Romania. The current borders are painful to look at.
In fact Russia followed the long term politics - the basis were established during the rule of Peter the Great. Russia wanted to arrive at the Danube's mouth, to control the Danube and in this way the Central Europe. During the last 200 years Russia had this obsession - to control the Danube. And the Black Sea. That's why they grab some land from Romania, and the land is the eastern half of Moldavia. Moreover, this time Russia broken Moldavia to pieces, transferring the southern part (Bugeac) and the northern part (half of historical Romanian province Bucovina including Cernauti city) to Ukraine, they transferred Transnistria to Moldavia, mixing the population an loosing the entity of the land. If you look at the map is easy to see that they cut completely the access of Moldova to the Danube river, in this way transforming Moldavia in a land locked "country". This is Russia. The biggest issue for Russia (regarding Danube) is that the whole Europe had a treaty which oblige everybody to use Sulina channel for transportation (the middle arm of the river). In order to keep Russia away from controlling the access, Romania spent a fortune to build the Danube - Black Sea channel, which connect the port of Constanta with the Danube river. This was Russia.....and still threat everyone, so this evil empire should disappear. Look at Georgia in 2008, Armenia and Azerbaidjan, Kazakhstan last year, Chechenia, Poland and Finland in WWII, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Hungary in 1956, Moldavia starting from 1812, again in 1878, then after the WW I Moldavia reunited with Romania and we had a few conflict with the bolschevik troops, but Russia returned in June 1940 attacking and occupying the eastern part of Moldavia. Nothing to say about the disaster named communism and exported in the whole Eastern Europe.
Well, they didn't have to think much at all... they simply followed the Ribbentroappa-Molotoava pact of 1939 and acted as such! That was it basically... What are your reasons to suspect that "any kind of thinking" was whatsoever involved...??! 🙄 Both modern Ruznitski-land and Germany, have officially condemned the pact... but do their chauvinistic ways, allow them to really care in fact??! Never!
Moldovans is also what most of historical regions from inner Romania call themselves. I'm also half Vrancean, more or less the historical region of Stefan the Great's legend of Vrâncioaia and her 7 sons
As a Ukrainian i always knew thaz we systematically and politically discriminat all romanoans on our territories. Nord Bucovina was, still is and honestly will al3be romanian. Our politician don't recognize it, unfortunately. But we should give this territories back to Romania again. Also the northen part of Maramures and south Bessarabia inclusive Akkermann (Cetatea Alba).
@@sacotafiruta2348Cine te crezi tu sa vorbesti in numele majoritatii? 😂Doar pt ca politicienii nu spun nimic nu inseamna ca n-ar fi revendicari; doar ca nu e momentul oportun!
@@sacotafiruta2348 Dreptul internațional nu interzice discuțiile despre teritorii. Dreptul internațional permite schimbările pașnice, negociate. Dreptul internațional, respectat de România, interzice violența și amenințarea cu violența. Da, nu vom revendica cu forța. Dar ar trebui să stăm de vorbă cinstit, sau la o instanță de judecată internațională - cum am făcut și cu platoul continental, din care Ucraina a vrut să ne ia o bucată, bazându-se pe Insula Șerpilor (ea însăși luată samavolnic de la România).
Author does not speak about Moldova here. He speaks about ”Republic of Moldova” - which is a different thing; it is the eastern part of Moldova, formerly under Russian/Soviet occupation. Moldova, with all its former capitals and the majority of Moldovans (Romanains) is already in Romania, being one of the ”builders” of modern Romania.
The intro is just beautiful! The part describing the post war developments Romania and Moldova feels a little confusing without mentioning that the Romanian communist party gained control of the Romanian government specifically. The background music could have been a notch quieter in some parts such that it wouldn't sound like it's competing with the narration for attention at the same time, as the narration should be the clearly louder one compared to background music. Best example of this problem is imo in the part describing the fall of Communist Romania. I must say the narration compared to the two prior videos sounds better such that I don't find myself being distracted by it, especially with the excellent music accompanying it. The audio transition to the sponsorship segment could have been more smooth, though I don't have much to comment about it besides that. The economics part upon my curret watch does sound a little outdated while being factual My last critique shall be that I feel like another song would have fit the outro section better. Besides these, great video once again!
the romanians invested heavily in Cadrilater after anexation , but it was bulgarian soil and they gived it back with no problems; but in other parts where is a majority of romanian speaking population it was just robbed from, and despite romania havily backing Ukraine , romanians in Ukraine are fobiden to talk romanian, our schools were closed , and all learning is made in Ukraine speaking schools and they are forced to learn ucraininan and renounce romanian heritage, the same thing in Serbia. I'm have a bulgarian/serbian and romanian background and have family in all 3 countries, by far the only people acting decent towards romanians are the bulgarians, institutionally speaking (national policy and official rullings , not the people , the people are the same everywhere)
As a Ukrainian, I’ll say that I was in the territories near the modern borders of Romania, I didn’t notice anything that you said. The only thing I’ll add is that Ukrainian is still the state language and compulsory for all citizens.
@@ZondAra_ "I didn’t notice anything that you said" personal experience doesn't exclude the existence of what we would call a problem. there have been multiple accounts of mistreatment of minorities in ukraine from different countries. leaving aside the notion that you are holding territories that other states also have a claim on, the least the ukrainians can do, is make sure they don't force the ukrainian identity on other ethnicities. to have ukrainian as mandatory curriculum is normal, since they live in ukraine and they absolutely will need to know the language. but other than that, they should probably also have curriculum in their own language, church in their own language, and press in their own language without "little green men" appearing out of nowhere to "pacify" them. which has happened many times over. to be completely fair, we are also probably guilty of romanianizing the ukrainians we had in our terittory, though i'm not sure what the scale of that was. from what i gather this was long ago. still, such practices are vilified in modern society. just saying. good luck with the war. we are all rooting for you.
@@Voroniel what you say is indeed true, and I agree with your statements. By "imposition of Ukrainian identity and forced assimilation" you most likely mean radical nationalists, who are not only here, but who have been especially zealously imposing their opinions in a society that has been rocked to the limit lately. regarding the last fact from my "epic" I will probably even apologize, given the overly radical national position of some citizens of my country, which is not quite normal in my opinion, and also stupid, given that their views still change little in the war for spheres of influence. and finally, thank you both for your comment and in general.
The statement that most Moldavians are not Romanians cause they identify themselves as Moldavians is misleading as all true Moldavians are Romanians as well and the answer you get depends greatly on how you put the question. For example: I am a Romanian from what was the medieval Romanian kingdom of Wallachia before it united with Romanian medieval kingdoms of Moldova and Transylvania and modern day Romania was formed. This Union was done willingly as we lived on these lands from the beginning of humanity (oldest human remains in Europe were found in Romania) and always had one culture, language and faith; even though many empires tried to absorb or replace us. During the ancient times we were also united under the Kingdom of Dacia until we were forcedly split by attacks of migratory people from all sides. Was chaos everywhere during the Dark ages. So if you ask me if I am Wallachian I will say yes. That doesn't mean I want to say I am just Wallachian and not Romanian. Same with Moldavian people. When they say they are Moldavians they mean Romanian people from what was the Kingdom of Moldavia
@@alexam1848 Păi asta am zis și eu, că sunt român valah. Toți valahii sunt români dar nu toți românii sunt valahi. Sunt români moldoveni, ardeleni etc. Așa și cu cei din Moldova când sunt întrebați dacă sunt moldoveni. Normal că răspund că da, dar asta nu înseamnă că vor să zică că nu sunt români. Sondajele alea cred că sunt făcute prost din greșeală sau chiar intenționat. Și după unii se folosesc de ele să anunțe că uite 75% din oamenii din Moldova se identifică ca moldoveni, deci nu români. De parcă se exclud una pe alta. Moldova a votat de bunăvoie pentru Unire să devenim un popor, înainte să fie furați de ruși și spălați pe creier unii dintre ei din păcate. Și s-ar fi unit din nou cu noi in 90 dacă nu îi ataca armata rusă din Transnistria care e încă acolo și încă îi împiedică
As a Romanian i have no idea what borderless transport feels like as we STILL aren't in the Schengen Zone even though we've completed all necessary tasks to join it.
The Russification of Bessarabia started in 1812 after the annexation of Bessarabia by the tsarist Russian empire. Part of it was the transplantion of Gaugasians from Bulgaria to Bessarabia and the removal of Romanians/Moldovans , Bulgarians and Turks and Tatars from Bugeac /Budzak who were replaced with Ucrainians & Russians.
As a Romanian that i have roots in the Romanian Region Moldavia and also in The country of Moldavia 🇲🇩 i can truly say that we are part of the same blood 🩸 ! But our history goes back in time 14 centuries ! Stefan Cel Mare ! Pace ☮️
I'd rather let Transnistria do whatever they need to because they shouldn't be part of Greater Romania. They are so different that they will never adapt to a Romanian governing body and I wouldn't ask them to, it's like asking Kosovo to unite with Serbia again.
6:36 EXCUSE ME? „Serbian, which is spoken in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.“ The people in Croatia do NOT speak Serbian. Neither do the people in Serbia speak Croatian. What an ignorant statement. The language is usually referred to as Serbocroatian and is derived from a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Let me quote wikipedia here: „In the mid-19th century, Serbian (led by self-taught writer and folklorist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić) and most Croatian writers and linguists (represented by the Illyrian movement and led by Ljudevit Gaj and Đuro Daničić), proposed the use of the most widespread dialect, Shtokavian, as the base for their common standard language.“ Do your research before you claim things.
When there will be reunification Romania will not only have a strong Hungarian and Saxon/Swabian minority, it will have also a strong Ukrainian, Russian and Gagausian minority. That is something a lot of the self proclaimed "patriots" don't think of. It will make some things in the political process a bit more difficult. As a Transilvanian who is used to our local historic multi-ethnic society, I welcome reunification with Moldova, but for some people in the more mono-ethnic South of Romania it will be a bit difficult to adapt to that. Reunification will definitively make Romania more multi-ethnic than it is now.
In R. Moldova (excluding Transnistria) there are 80% ethnic-Romanians. The Transnistrian Ukrainian villages can be swapped with Romanian/Moldovan villages near border (Mămăliga in North or Cartal in South). Win-win.
Dialects of Romanian are Aromanian (in Macedonia and Grece), Istroromanian (Croatia), Meglenoromanian (in Grece). "Moldavian" Romanian is dialect as much as English (US, Au, NZ,...) are dialects of English (GB-standard BBC).
In the EU Moldova can be "united" with Romania, like Poland is united with Germany or like Hungary is united with Romania... in the UE countries remain separated, they do NOT unite at all.
@@BasedBoy2017 that's my opinion too. The only solution for Moldova is to reunite with Romania just like East and West Germany did in 1990. The EU integration of Moldova separated from Romania will never happen anyway. Russia and the moldovan oligarchs (including Vlad Filat, the boss of Maia Sandu) try to see this ideea of Moldovas integration into the EU separated from Romania because they know it will never happen and so Moldova will remain a colony of Russia.
@@9_9876es he is. The oligarch Vlad Filat is the one who introduced Maia Sandu into politics by making her his minister of education for many years even if she had practically zero political experience. Filat was Maia Sandu’s boss for many years and he financed her every move and made her the president she is today. Maia Sandu is Vlad Filat’s marionette and most probably former lover. After Filat was imprisoned and Maia Sandu became president she immediately began to wash his image and a few months later liberated him even if he is very corrupt and together with Ilan Shor stole 1 billion $. Filat uses Maia Sandu as a marionette because she seams innocent and people trust her. Maia Sandu continues the same identical politics and ideology of Vlad Filat, integration into the EU separated from Romania and with the russian military base Transnistria, which of course will never happen, and that’s exactly what Vlad Filat wants so he ca remain the master of the Republic of Moldova.
comparing Moldova and Romania to Croatia and Serbia is way off, mate. Languege might be similar, just like Scandinavian languages are similar one to another. Nobody says that people in Denmark speak Swedish.
I’ve visited the PMR, and all i can say is that the soil is good, the people are nice and are clever, there are roads and electricity. But it looks like going back in time. Strangely enough it looked cleaner than Moldova tho, but there where a lot more old people sweeping the streets to supplement a very meager pension. Russian troops on the street looked like they last saw new equipment in the 90’s, one of the BTR’s they had parked at the border near Bender even had soft tires.
True, but if you visit Orhei town in Moldova republic controlled territory you will be shocked to see how clean it is, cleaner than Bender or Tiraspol. It depends on local administration, it doesn’t have to do with the future of a country. Libya was “clean” too... remember.
Croatian is spoken in Croatia and even if Serbs in Croatia sometimes do say they speak Serbian, Shtokavian in Croatia is considered Croatian with Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects also being just Croatian and not spoken by Serbs, in Bosnia language is very simillar and Croats call it Croatian, Serbs call it Serbian and Bosniaks call it Bosnian, diffierences between 3 variants are minimal, Serbs in Serbia speak ekavian Štokavian variant which everyone calls Serbian and there is also Torlakian Serbian, Montenegrins speak Ijekavan Štokavian called Montenegrin by Montenegrins but considered Serbian by ethnic Serbs, also Kajkavian Croatian is closer to Slovene than to Serbian, most of languages are mutually inteligable but Kajkavian and Chakavian are a bit different.
It sounds complicated..... 🙂 But here, in Romania, there are no dialects. We can speak - Moldovans and Romanians - without any issue. Grammar is only one, words are identical, the single difference are the archaic words which are also - most of them - fully understandable, and some regional words which are also understandable for all. There are some accents in Transylvania and Moldavia, but are completely irrelevant, affecting only the pronunciation. But the words are identically written. To be more clear, the Republic of Moldavia and the Romanian region of Moldavia have a completely identical accent. Moldavia was one piece till russia came and took the eastern half. In a few words....that's it.
As a Bessarabian (moldovan) I think there are only two options for us: Unification or a One Nation two states scenario i.e. Bessarabia is, technically, independent but is close as can be economically, energy -se, militarily, culturally as possible while still being two states ( with or without Transnistria I personally don't care either way.)
05:16 Collectivization means the land is seized by the state from everyone, large and small land owners. It't not being redistributed to the peasants, the peasants just become employees of the state, willing or not. Resistance meant a trip to the Romanian gulag or death in a mass grave.
06:34 Serbian is not spoken in Croatia, except by Croatian Serbs. This exact statement was one of the major reasons for the wars 30 years ago. It would be equally wrong to say Croatian is spoken in Serbia, except by Croats in Vojvodina. It's like saying Danish is spoken in Norway - I understand the logicals behind the statement, but it's still incorrect. Standard Croatian and Serbian, while being 99% mutually intelligible, are not the same. Besides the obvious difference - Latin and Cyrillic alphabet - each has unique grammar features that clearly separate those two languages. Not to mention that Croatian was heavily influenced by Latin, Italian and German, while Serbian was heavily influenced by Greek, Russian and Turkish. When it comes to dialects, the difference is obvious - basically, if you let Croat from northern Croatia or Dalmatia talk in his dialect with a Serb from Pirot or Niš, they will have a very hard time understanding each other.
When you join the Schengen zone, you still have borders... or did you hit your head? Every country still has full territorial autonomy and as shown recently with the Visegrád Group, they can effectively defy any EU law and mandate, which would include Schengen free passage.
Then why remain in the Schengen zone, if you don't enact the Schengen free passage? That's the whole point of Schengen 😂 Those countries might get excluded eventually...
No, not really. They are considered peacekeepers, any attack on them is basically an invasion of a sovereign country, Moldova. Now, of course, if Moldova would give an ultimatum and ask them to leave and they refused and then Moldova would ask for the help of Ukraine, then they could intervene... legally. But Moldova will not do this, they seek a peaceful resolution
@@mihaiilie8808 There are bulgarians in bessarabia quite a lot and we still dont claim it. İn North Dobrudja there are some but other got exchanged still it is not hard to exchange again. Still accordğng to Hşstory the only reason Wallachia got that territory is cus they lose Bessarabia and now if we are fair they should return what tussşa took from us and gave to them. We shall work together against Russia the. Also lets not forget how many wallachians are actually bulgarşans that movrd there durning Bulgarşa eas under ottoma empire pr they stayed since the Bulgarian Empires thst covered whole Romanşa and part of Hungary and almost whole balkans. Yet we claim only North Dobrudja, North Macedonia, aegan thrace , Edirne and Shopluk area in Serbia. While we wa nt maşnly only North Macedonia and Shopluk rn cus they are still culturally and traditionally bulgarian while the otners are not fully but they have remains.
@@BringBackCyrillicBG one of my grand grand mothers was bulgarian but from an area in Bulgaria where there are quite a lot romanian speakers. Thrace included whole Romania and maybe parts of Hungary too. Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe ,Sofia is the oldest city in Europe,a nice country. But the population now ,if they dont even know the language,you cant claim them. Greece or Italy could claim Dobrogea too and also the turks,tatars. About Macedonia,i agree thats Bulgarian .Lots of romanian speakers there too.
@@BringBackCyrillicBG You can't reclaim anything anymore... both Romania and Bulgaria are E.U. and N.A.T.O. members! There are no such "swaps" possible between any of us! What would you do with "Northern Dobruja" anyways?? 🤔 Bulgaria has lots of coastline and can't protect it on it's own! I know, you thought maybe of the Black Sea oil & gas reserves inside Romanian's maritime exclusive economic zone... but no sorry, it's ours and c'est la vie...
In the context of the war in Ukraine I have been looking for more information on Transnistria region and Moldova. Thanks for offering this video. I take it that there is one faction in Moldova that would see enjoining with Romania could achieve NATO protections from Russian modern imperialism. Suffering under Soviet period is a terrible memory.
There is a need for some clarifications: - Southern Dobrogea, known as "Cadrilater" in Romanian (from Latin "quadrilater" meaning "quadrangle") was illegally annexed by Romania in 1913. - Northern Bucovina had a Romanian minority: it was mainly inhabited by Ukrainians. - For the same reasons as Bucovina, Banat was divided between Romania and Serbia and Hungary. - Bessarabia was part of the kingdom of Moldavia until 1812 and for more than a century, the czarist empire tried to colonize it; it was not a Russian province. - Transnistria (meaning "beyond Dnister" in Latin) was a Romanian majority territory, until 1792 when it was occupied by Russians. It was Dacian in antiquity, the population being called Tyragetae, the Getaes of Tyras (today's Tiraspol) - Getae is the Greek name for Dacians. - Gagauzia has a Christian Turkish population that forgot its language, history and allegiances, because of Russian propaganda in the media and during USSR. It was historically part of Bessarabia, but it does not have a Romanian majority population. It has autonomy in the Republic of Moldavia and extra powers in the Moldavian parliament that is well deserved, but the Russian Federation is using this status to block any Westward or towards Romania moves in Chisinau for the whole country. This region is nowadays more pro-Russian than Transnistria. - Last, but not least, Transylvania (from the Latin "trans silvania" - the country beyound the woods) was always in majority Dacian or Romanian and was illegally annexed by Hungary. Around the year 1000, after failing to advance in the Western Europe, the Magyars started to attack Transylvania to extend their territories and in 200 years the annexation was complete. In the next 600 years Transylvania was either under Hungarian, or quasi-independent, or under Austrian-Hungarian, or Ottoman empire rule. In all this time, the majority of the population was the unrecognized nation of Romanians. They became recognized in 1848 following the revolt of 1848 in all Europe. In 1918 the majority got what was lawfully its own: the inhabited territory. In conclusion, besides the Southern Dobrogea and Northern Bucovina, the Greater Romania was in its lawful boundaries. Even the Southern Bessarabia, which now is part of Ukraine was lawfully part of Romania and Bessarabia was never lawfully Russian.
Cred ca trebuie sa mai aprofundezi demografia istorica a nordului Bucovinei. Iar daca Cadrilaterul a fost "anexat ilegal" (si nu o sa intru in detalii legate de razboiaele balcanice si populatiile romanesti sud-dunarene si drepturile sau non-drepturile lor) la fel de bine poti discuta despre cat de romaneasca era Dobrogea cand a fost alipita Regatului. / You shoud do some more research on the historic demographics of North Bukowina. If the Cadrilater was "illegally annexed" yot can also discuss on how much was romanian the Dobrogea region when incorporated into the Romanian Kingdom (you have to study some historic demographics here as well :)) ).
This "analysis" or "clarification" is neither analytical nor clear. The statement that the Cadrilater "was illegally annexed by Romania in 1913" is wrongful. Southern Dobruja was annexed by Romania in the aftermath of the Second Balkan War, ended by the Treaty of Bucharest (1913). Within this treaty was outlined the secession of the region to victorious Romania, an entirely lawful act. Bulgaria, the losing faction of the war, had waged conflict against Serbia, Montenegro, Greece. Romania and the Ottoman Empire (conflict with the latter being mediated following the 1913 Treaty of Constantinople). It was a reprehensible loss for the Bulgarians, but not an unlawful one. They were the aggressors invading their neighboring allies and, in the case of Romania, perpetuating diplomatic squabbles over the Northern Dobruja region. Bukovina had been a Romanian territory, in terms of history and ethnic distribution, up until colonial settlement following the annexation of the territory by the Habsburgs in 1775 (following the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, end to a Russo-Turkish war neither Austria nor Moldavia had ever fought in or mediated). Even with the context of this annexation, Bukovinian populations retained a Romanian relative majority. The Austrian Empire had first occupied the territory in October 1774. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, they had claimed that Bukovina was needed to construct a road between Galicia and Transylvania. Moldavia at that time was one of the two Romanian governed nations alongside Wallachia which would - between the first common quasi-constitution of the "Regulamentul Organic", the revolutions in all Romanian land of 1848 and the first constitution adopted in 1866 - proclaim the formation of the unitary Romanian state, with the goal of uniting with Transylvanian and Bukovinian aspirations at the formation of a "Western" Romanian Kingdom within a federalized Austrian Empire. If we take this context into account, then we can see that within the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Duchy of Bukovina and representatives comprising the High National Romanian Council of Transylvania united with Romania, the latter forming the Directing Council of Transylvania, Banat and the Romanian Lands in Hungary. Northern Bukovina, as apart of the Duchy, had returned to Romanian territorial administration. It's partition came about following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania on June 26, 1940, that threatened the use of force. This had been apart of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and involved the illegal occupation of the Hertsa region and the Danube islands. Thus, from previous context, we can understand that the partition of Banat had come amidst the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (as it had been an Imperial holding) and it's division had been agreed upon and reflected respective interests. Transnistria was not a Romanian territory, it never was apart from a military occupation following WWII. From a historic point of view and a demographic point of view the territory had always been outside the reach of the Romanized populations (that would eventually comprise the Romanian nation) which at no point corresponded with the Dacian Kingdom at it's height, but rather with the provinces of Roman Dacia, Moesia Inferior and to a certain extent Moesia Superior. As for Transylvania, the Latin name is misleading as it comes from a Hungarian translation and was used by Hungary since Latin (the ecclesiastical language of the Western Church) had been used as administrative and literary language. Also, it's territory had become a Hungarian realm following a war waged against the First Bulgarian Empire, and was by no means "illegally" occupied, as such terminology does not apply to the 10th and 11th centuries when this process gradually took place. Also, recognition of Romanians did not precisely follow the revolutions of 1848, and was in fact also tied with the gradual process enforced by Austria trough which the Romanians had become converted to the Greco-Catholic faith in Transylvania.
@@bujdososzekely Objectively wrong video, the statement that the Vlachs would have been pushed out by Ottomans makes no sense considering first attestations of Romanians north of the danube surfaced around the 10th to 11th centuries, with polities being specified.
The ‘logic’ of uniting all speakers of a given language into one political state is exactly what Russian imperialism threatens. I’m all for Moldova (including the left bank of Dniester River) being politically United with Romania as its partition was effected by Russia specifically to cripple Romania and Romanian people’s aspirations. But a better notion than shared language needs to be sought as motivation and justification. Nevertheless Moldova and Romania form an organic cultural historical unity that is currently broken and should be restored. Most Moldovans speak Russian, so don’t cite language as the primary factor of unity.
Romanian reunification would happen through a referendum, not though an invasion, so no need to bring the Russia situation here. Also, while the vast majority of most Moldovans know Russian, Romanian is the language spoken on a daily basis by about 75% of the population.
@@giulestinha didn’t they have a referendum some years back in Moldova that ought to have paved the way for reunification already? I’m just saying shared language is a two edged sword, commonly used to ‘justify’ Russian imperial occupation.
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 They had a referendum in 1994 (so shortly after gaining independence and after the war in Transnistria), but it was just a general question, with no reference to reunification with romania. Question was: Are you for the Republic of Moldova to develop as an independent and indivisible state within the borders recognized by the UN, to promote a policy of neutrality, to maintain mutually beneficial economic relations with any country and to guarantee all its citizens equal rights according to the norms of international law?
@@giulestinha thanks! I had thought there was something much more recent where Moldovans showed a preference for reunification but the Muscovite govt ignored them. I see the Gagauz (what, 20,000 souls?) ‘feel threatened’ by the Romanianness of the region and have a Muscovite party named after its leader Sors who fled justice to Moscow.
This is disinformation. Most moldovans speak english too, even better than russian. We also speak french, german, italian. Wdym, speaking russian is a crime? My native language is romanian, I can even mix it with some russian words to piss out my “pure” romanian colleagues at my job, but does it make me a “different” romanian in any way? Have you read too much goebbels propaganda on racial purity?
Thanks a lot for this video! I am both moldovan and Romanian, these two being in fact a smaller “matryoshka” identity inside a larger one for many of my conationals (around 1 milion who obtained romanian passports and the ones that are supportive of reunification. There are also still a lot of moldovans who consider themselves a completely separate nation, which they have the right to do, despite that losing us, the 1 million moldo-romanians would be catastrophic for Moldova republic. Things will change as you anticipate here, Ukraine being supportive, not against us and ukrainians will accept a reunited Romania as we support them now.
I, as a Ukrainian, support the reunification of Moldova and Romania. In Ukraine, we would not even mind if Ukraine itself liquidated Transnistria and helped Moldova regain control of the land. After all, this is also in our interests. I wish you all the best!
@@mxbyzantine Thanks man! Transnistria needs to be "absorbed" into Moldova first, but I would agree for Ukraine to even take it, or parts of it, for exchanging access to the sea. R I guess it would never happen tho, the only way Moldova can have sea access is to reunite Romania. As the author stated, if we will be in the EU we could go to the sea unrestricted, even in Ukraine. All you need is a fast railway and just more interconnectivity. Now also Transnistria hinders the transportation of goods and people. The rural population in Transnistria is 65% moldavian and 30% ukrainian, russians being only predominant in 3 bigger cities Bender, Tiraspol, Rybnitsya. We need a "special military operation", lol, aiming to capture the old weapon deposits at Kolbasna, Ukraine should work together with Moldova to capture those old weapons.
" ...simmilar to Serbian, that is spoken in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro... " When discussing Balkan politics, one ought to thread carefully, because the whole area is mined (by Serbs) and it's very easy to get hurt
8:11 Both countries? Romania was never part of the USSR. We were under Soviet military occupation from 1944 to 1958, but never a part of USSR. Moldova was under occupation for a lot longer than that. ☹ The ruZZians deported ethnic Romanians from there to the mines in Siberia, replacing them with ethnic ruZZians. Exactly like how they have been doing with Crimea for these last 9 years (since 2014 when they illegally annexed it). Romania hates ruZZia because they still haven't given us back our National Treasury: 100 tons of priceless gold artefacts from Daco-Roman times. The Central Powers were closing in on us, ruZZia said "trust us" and like fools, we did. 😐 We never saw it back. Europe is just now learning of ruZZians' lack of honor. We knew from long ago!
It is worth noting that half of the Moldovan region is in the Romanian part. Moldova as a region, whether or not it is part of Romania, was artificially divided by the Soviet Union. Having visited Romania twice and knowing a bit of history, especially in the context of the Middle Ages, I know that Moldova is a region significantly different from the rest of Romania in many respects and for centuries, thanks to its hospodars, it has maintained its political identity. Crossing the border of the Carpathians, you have the feeling of crossing the border between the east and the west. The definitely different architecture, landscape and clothes catch your eye immediately. I think that Romania has a good reason to strengthen ties with Moldova, but it should be up to the Moldovans to have the final word. It will be best if it takes place in an atmosphere of peace after the end of the war in Ukraine and preferably getting rid of the problem of Transnistria, which is a Russian cancer on Moldova's organism. After Moldova's integration with the European Union, there will be no barriers between Moldova and Romania anyway.
!!?? "The definitely different architecture, landscape and clothes.."Mr. specialist in Romanian traditions, if I'll demonstrate you Romanian-Moldovan costumes mixed with Romanian-Transilvanian costumes, I bet 1 million euros you won't be able to tell which is coming from where. Probably the same for church building and/or traditional houses. If you look into small details, then "Moldova is a region significantly different from the rest of" Moldova (yes, itself!) in many respects. In my understanding you mean us no harm, you wish us Moldovans-Romanians the best things - thank you; but please do not exaggerate whatever small differences you may see, or I'll prove you any two twins from Krakow are belonging to totally different nations : )
Haven’t watched it all yet, but fully reuniting Greater Romania is practically impossible. Not only would it require reunification with Moldova, which would be its own hurdle, it would also require the cessation of land from both Ukraine and Bulgaria, the latter being a fellow EU and NATO member and the former being a prospective member of both. No country is willing to give up land, citizens, and resources to another for the sake of better borders, and most countries can’t or won’t fight for them. National reunifications across the world are pleasant fantasies, but no government would willingly sign itself out of existence.
Nobody I know wants the interwar Greater Romania. We would like though to have Re-United Romania. That is Romania, R. Moldova and some Moldovan lands forcibly taken by Stalin and given to third parties, all thru negotiations according the Helsinki Final Act and/or international courts (no war, no threats whatsoever). We certainly do not want conflicts and do not want lands which are not inhabited by our own people, forcibly alienated by USSR. I refer to the spirit of Resolution 148 of the US Senate, 1991.
True that. And Romania has some 18.5 millions, because of bad demographics and emmigration out of our country. There are around 100.000 ukrainians established since 2021 inside Romania and a bit more in Moldova republic. They are ukrainian citizens from Odessa, Kiev, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Nikolayev.
@@dumitrupogolsa7769 Romania's population is gowing down mainly because the fertility rate is too low, at 1.6 to 1.8 per women when it should be 2.1 to maintain the population. Less and less romanians leave the country because the standard of living in Romania is already as high as in Portuagal and just slightly lower than Spain and Italy. In 2-3 years Romania will be richer per capita than Spain and in around 5 years richer than Italy.
@@BurningFlame1999 Better compare Romania to Poland than Portugal or Spain. Romanian still go there, at the "Sea of Plastic" near Almeria, to work in inhuman conditions, just like moroccans, under the hot spanish sun. The romanians who live better than spaniards are called deputies and senators. As a Romanian living in Piatra Neamt, I have an appartment and a terrain here, but to build my own house and have my appartment just for rent I would be forced to work abroad again, so at one moment of my life I even thought about leaving completely Romania. My friends did it, they are now Irish, Italian, etc., because Romania is such a hole full of gipsies and stuff. Romania is not the top 1 turistic destination for any country in the world, despite having a fairy tale landscape. All of these problems come from red tape, corruption and just romanian stupidity, after all. I am also romanian, but I am not a proud one like you, fuck that unnecessary pride, life is too short to back this nationalism shit.
Of course not, pretty much much the same language with different alphabets and some different words, but neither the serbs nor the croatians can pretend that they "own" it. Decades ago, the name used to be "serbo-croatian". (quote from Radio Free Europe and Voice of America before the fall of the iron curtain > "The following broadcast is in serbo-croatian")
Probably not. I've seen no Moldovan poll to show indicate majority support for unification. However, this war will likely result in the end of Transnistria as an quasi-independent statelet. Ukraine could probably easily move into the region, capture 2000 Russian troops, and seize the ammunition depots relatively easily. More likely, Russian money will dry up and Transnistria will be forced to join the 21st century.
Hey guys if I can ask what are Romanians opinions on this? My barber is Romanian and i delved into this topic with him. I was surprised that he said he would have no interest in a unification. Dude was very young and I was surprised because from what I’ve read on the internet I would’ve expected him to be for it.
Many Romanians nowadays are wary. They would rather have the Republic of Moldova enter the EU and unite like this. Romania has made tremendous efforts in the last 30 years to overcome its poverty and develop, and people are afraid that our economy would not be able to sustain R. Of Moldova too, plus the fact that they are still voting communists there. It might drive us over the edge, economically and politically. We are also very pro-West and find the pro-Russian opinion of part of Moldova's population disquieting, to put it mildly. If the majority of Moldovans would strongly want to unite, Romanians might overcame their misgivings, but many Romanians consider that the Moldovans try to play at both ends for their benefit. Stories about Moldovan students studying here on a Romanian scholarship and then complaining about us or speaking Russian among themselves so other students cannot understand do not help the general opinion.
What the person above me said its true. Generally around 70% of Romanians support blindly the union, me included, while some 30% are wary of it. These are numbers from polls I've seen but also from personal experience. It is no wonder that people have different opinions. An immigrant as your barber is more expected to have this opinion since he must've perceived poor level in Romania. It is normal that he thinks it'd go lower if Moldova united. In my opinion that's true but it would be temporary
I m weary because of the fact the Republic of Moldova has Russian speakers enclaves on their territory, 2 of them and one of them, Transnistria, has russian troops in it. We all saw how Russia uses te Russian speaking population and you can see it in what happend to Ukraine. I personally would be for it if Moldova somehow resolved the issues of the russian enclaves but I do not see a solution in the near future. On the other hand I hope for them to enter the EU and NATO. If they enter the EU and later when both Romania and Moldova would be in the Schengen space (even if it s a further away future), the fact that a boarder exists wouldn t really matter anymore. I feel Romania should do more for Moldova. Romania does a lot in the sence of financial support and certain benefits for Moldovan students and citizens in general but I wish we would have done more. Our president was way too silent when they were in the crisis a few months ago and now the fact that Poland gave them more military than us I consider a shame on Romania. What would have Poland have done if they had a sister nation like Romania has? I dare say much more. My country is beautiful but it s lead by people too confortable to take stance and build soft power...
Nah, sorry guys, I'm also Romanian & from what I've seen in the recent polls, unionist sentiment has dropped a lot in Romania... like, under 50%. It's a shame, I'm still pro unification. However, we can't say 70-80% anymore. I think it was 33%.
By dialects do you mean the other Balkan romance languages? They are too far from the Danube. Regional dialects are closer to each other than those found in the UK
@@MrDoggysmut ok.. Here are some mistakes I found: - there are some pronunciation mistakes, like the way he pronounced Găgăuzia, or Ceaușescu, but I don't care much about those kinds of mistakes. He is not Romanian, so I don't have the expectation that he should pronounce Romanian names perfectly. - at 0:10 he says that the idea of a 'greater Romania' began amidst the chaos of the first world war, but the idea started long before that. People were talking about that long before Romania was even a country. The first world war was just the first time is truly seemed doable. - the map of Greater Romania that they keep showing is wrong. Northern Bucovina is like two times bigger on the map than it was in real life and also, Transnistria was not a part of Greater Romania. - at 1:19 he says 'all speakers of Romanian and its dialects'. If we are to consider Moldovan a dialect of Romanian, then England also has tens of English dialects. And there are some important things that were left out of the video. Those things are often ignored by the Russian backed politicians: - he doesn't talk about the fact that Romania formed when Moldavia and Wallachia, two Romanian countries united. And that the main figures who helped this happen, as well as the first rulers of Romania, were Moldavians. - he doesn't talk about the Russian annexation of Bessarabia from Moldova and the russification policy of the Russian Empire or the cultural genocide Russia did in Bessarabia. - he doesn't talk about how Bessarabia joined Romania. He just says that Romania grabbed it during the Russian civil war. But actually Moldova declared independence from Russia and Romania respected its decision, treating Moldova as an equal. Later Moldovans voted to 'forever' unite with Romania and representatives of all the ethnic minorities from Bessarabia were invited to vote, there were even Transnistrian representatives. - he says that we don't know if the Moldovan identity was created by the Soviets, all while omitting the artificial words added to the language, or the fact that saying that you are Romanian could mean a one way ticket to the gulag. And during the Soviet period many personalities from the part of Moldavia that was still in Romanian were promoted in Moldova as part of the 'moldovan' culture because they didn't have their own heroes on which to build the Moldovan culture. That how people like Stephen the great, who said that Moldovans are Romanians, or writers like Mihai Eminescu, who said multiple times that the was a Romanian and who talked about how he wants Bessarabia to join Romania, became Moldovan heroes and the thing they said about Romanians were not mentioned. - he doesn't talk about the 90's. After Moldova gained independence, the people that came to power wanted to unite with Romania, while the people that had the power in Romania were pro-russian ex-communists. Moldovan artists who openly talk about the union and said that they are Romanian died in car 'accidents'. - he doesn't talk about the pro-russian politicians and parties, which are founded and controlled by Russia. They are the ones that promote the identity created by the Soviets and say that they don't speak Romanian, but Moldovan. They are the ones who changed the national anthem of Moldova (it used to be the same anthem that Romania has) and wanted to change the flag too. They controll most of the media and give poor people money to protes against the pro-EU rulers. They are the main reason Moldova did not unite with Romania.
I don't have to be from Moldova to know that Wallachia Transylvania Moldova are 3 Romanian principalities Moldova it should be integrated where it belongs in Greater Romania. Period And for the envious Internet users who missed history class, I warmly recommend you to read another book a little culture doesn't hurt the brain 😊 Peace
Moldova and Ukraine will not enter the EU any time soon. Even if by some miracle this happens, it is not equivalent to o a reunification. I am Romanian and I do not consider myself united with Hungary and Bulgaria, for example. You also left out the significantly aspect of denationalization implemented by the Ukrainians in the areas inhabited by Romanians. So, when the accesion to the EU will happen (in my opinion, that will never develop) there will not be any Romanians left in those lands.
Not to mention along with Moldova we should also receive Northern Bucovina, Bugeac and the Snake Island, since they've always been ours, unlike what Zdrelensky claims that we invaded and took them by force in 1918
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if Moldova enter in EU , people from there will emigrate to the West not to Romania...(most of them will be like romanians in 2007 when the country entered EU, that means = massive migration in West) ...as romanian i know they were our people until 1940, but the current population of Moldova is in "soviet- USSR" mindset in majority! (60%) , incompatible with the current mindset of romanians (pro-West) , recent was an exit poll (before invasion of Russia in Ukraine) and they were asked if they want to reunite with Romania , 60% said NO! they want with Russia ! but that was BEFORE invasion of Russia in Ukraine , as romanian i don't want "russian" mindset inside Romania , will be a major problem for current Romania
@@dand7763 last poll said 58.3% of Moldovans support EU, 40% support unification with Romania. Why reject your own brother after he has been brainwashed? Wouldn't you rather help him because he is your brother? In 2016 only 17% of Moldovans wanted unification. Have patience.
@@9_9876 will be ready EU to pay massive for this reunification? because it's impossible for romanians (still many in poverty) to sustain (alone) such event ... not just some billions ,EU members must pay in every year many many Billions euro , for a period of 10 years (at least) otherwise will be a failure! and romanians will do many steps back ,will remain the poor people of EU , without massive financial aid , Romania will become bankrupt ,and we don't want this to happen
@@dand7763 eu is extremely rich. This is also for countering ruzzian influence. The war has attracted attention to Moldova and Ukraine. Europe has been helping both more.
Also be reminded that it's not like those 10 billion will be instantly invested. And they're also not all waste, some of them will return with time. I think it's possible with nice planning. There is no reason to rush it. Union shouldn't be declared right after the referendum results
PS: unification is estimated to cost 10 billion euro
@@9_9876 just 10 billions ?! maybe 10 Billions in every year , all to be invested 10 years in a row! and all going in Moldova infrastructure , Chisinau needs this "cheese" not Bucharest!
As a Romanian, this video is one of the most documented and best researched out there! Love to Latvia and all of our Eastern Europe brothers and sisters!
You shouldn't want this... western Ukrainains are really poles that will drag you into their anti slav agenda...
Dacia is yours not the children of serially conquered and culturally confused poles
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@@alehaimI didn't know you also worked on this video! Well done!
I am brazilian going to spend vacation in Romania next year. I can’t wait, so excited.
@@mariodezert as a roumanain ,I was planning to visit Brazil (I find tickets with 434 euro ),but not all things work as planned,but when you will come to our country you will find very frendly ,safe and beutyfull country and similar with your country because we speak roumanian which a latin language very similar with portuguese
Ppl outside the area may not realize yet what the Soviets did in Moldova/Basarabia with the "Moldovan" language that was supposedly different language than Romanian. It's very easy to explain : It's like claiming that Austrians don't speak German language but "Austrian" language . Yes they switched to Cyrillic alphabet so it would be easier to fool everyone, but today you can just open Google Translate... select translation from English to Romanian, and send that to a person from Republic of Moldova and he will read it in his native tongue ...no questions asked.
As hard to believe it may be, they (the Russkiy mir/"Russian world" people) still claim to this day that Moldovan is a different language... lol.
P.s. Romania didnt just gain independence from Ottomans from Russo Turkish war... but participated with massive contribution in Bulgaria to gain it, against the ottomans, where the Russian army was stuck.
How would they be able to read Romania if they only know how to read the Cyrillic alphabet? Clearly they are the same language but I don’t understand your premise of the Google translate, showing a Moldovan Latin based Romanian, I don’t see how they could read it when the Cyrillic alphabet is so different.
austrian is probably more different to most german dialects than moldovan and romania. apart from bavarians most germans don't understand austrian.
@@RobotWithHumanHair. The Cyrillic alphabet was abandoned many years ago... I think soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain in `89.
Rep. of Moldova uses the latin alphabet for a very long time now...
I didnt write all history in that short comment.
@@-morrow What ?! I can understand both German and Austrian spoken German, and Im not even a native speaker.
@@RobotWithHumanHair. the cyrillic alphabet was in place just during the soviet times. they switched to latin in 1989 I believe (2 years before the breakup of the ussr, during the perestroika/glasnost period).
As a Romanian American I like how you make occasional videos about Romania 🇷🇴👍🏻 Good Job!
Moldovian here, Most young people are for Uniting back with Romania however old people are brainwashed by Russian TV and don't feel the same.
I think the brainwashing started after the war.Maybe young people think Romania opens more possibilities to them,but it was separated for too long ,in fact many Romanians dontdon't care about this Republic.Few years ago they looking towards Moscow in order to realize something in life.Now politics has changed.They are brainwashed by the West.As Romanian born and living in Romania I don't have any sympathy for Moldavians and I'm sure they want only a faster way to rich the EU.When I'm listening to most of them speaking awful Romanian with a pronounced russian,it's difficult to accept they are the same people accent
Yes, unfortunately older people are the slowest to adapt! Even in Romania itself! Most older generations still dream of Ceaushescu & Elena and 1975! 😒 You can't blame them really... it was their "time of glory", it's difficult to let go...
As a Romanian, I say NO to unification. We don't need a Russian minority added to our country. It would be reason for endless conflict. They would refuse to integrate and learn the language. They would demand schools in the Russian language. They would have strong connections to Russia. They would change the political climate. Our border would be to close to Russia.
If our non-Russian Moldovan brothers want to move to Romania they are welcome! But no unification.
or maybe you are the brainwashed ones? ever thought about that? didn't think so.
give it 25 years, nature will take its course
Collectivisation in the USSR was not about redistributing the land between peasants. It was about creating state-controlled farms where peasants were forced to work.
He was speaking about Romania, no?
@@linusfotograf Maybe. I was rather making a comment on the nature of collectivisation.
@@glibradchenko6748 Truth
@@linusfotografwhich implemented collectivisation the same way that the USSR did. So, nothing wrong with the above comment.
And this was perhaps one of the USSR's first of many mistakes.
The carving out of Bessarabia from Romania is one of he greatest geopolitical crimes in history. The end goal must be for a reunified Romanian state.
Carving out Transsilvania from Hungary was the similar crime. Punishing a colony for the crime commited their oppressor. Keeping Austria almost intact and tearing apart Hungary, their opressed colony. When Hungary tried to be independent from their opressor earlier in 1848 the same countries helped Austria who later created the Trianon pact. Probably the 1st and 2nd WW would not happen if Hungary won in 1848. Before that Hungary was the last defending line against many attackers from Asis who wanted to overrun Europe.
Getting Dobrudja in exchange of Bessarabia is the same :-)
@@LILEE376he difference is that in Transylvania Hungarians never had a majority before/during/ or after their occupation. You can check that in loads of Hungarian History books even in GestaHungarorum.
@@LILEE376 hungary never existed in europe, transilvania was an automous state that chosed to join the Austro Hungary empire just by fear to be attacker by the others ones, but after the empire collapsed they choosed by their own to unify with the 2 others states to form todays Romania. Transylvania was always populated by Vlachs; Dacians, Romanians people was before hungary was created
@@LILEE376The German Science Society had some ethnic map prepared periodically since 1800. Vienna also had ethnic maps during the same period of time, with the same situation clearly presented. You can find them with ease on internet. All of these maps were showing that Székely (or Hungarians) were living in some limited areas, near mountains, where they had also the majority. Exactly where they are living nowadays. Two counties out of 12.
The rest of Transylvania was populated by Romanians in an absolute majority. And the overall percentage was - during the time - at least 80% Romanians and 15% Hungarians. Nowadays Hungarians are more or less about 15% of the total population of Transylvania. Same way, Austro-Hungarian empire occupied Slovakia, but Hungarians were always maximum 15% of the overall population.
This is how empires work. In 1918 you lost your empire.....and this was good for all. If - by absurd - you occupy Transylvania again, Hungarians will became a minority. Pay attention to what you want.
Moreover, do not overestimate 1948. Hungary had a limited role in 1948 as well as in 1919. And the other statement "last defending line against many attackers from Asia who wanted to overrun Europe" is wrong again. All European nations fought against ottomans or other tribes including your ancestor's tribes. All coming from Asia, of course.
Moldova has confirmed this year that Romanian is their national language in their constitution and it is to be referred to as that from now on, instead of Moldovan which is really just a dialect of Romanian.
As a speaker of Romanian, I can tell you that Moldovan is not even a dialect but what we call a "grai", that is a subdialect. I can communicate with our brothers in Moldova easily. And yes! I feel the moment we'll be reunited is ever closer. Thank God for Ukraine! I pray for their victory
@@Radubusă fim sinceri noi schimbăm accentul și vocabularul când vorbim cu români. Între moldoveni, vorbim cu un accent și vocabular mai rusesc dar nu contează, suntem români și vorbim limba română! Chiar dacă țările noastre nu vor fi unite în sensul politic, noi mereu vom fi uniți.
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It's not "dialect", it's accent!
@@AGC2021it’s not an accent it’s a dialect, Romanians has two dialects: ardeleneste and moldoveneste and within those dialects there are hundreds of different accents.
@@Qwerty1637i the true Romanian dialects are Aromanian, Istroromanian and Meglenoromanian, and they all can be found only in the Balkans!
The phonetic of Romanian, slightly different in Transilvania, Moldova or Oltenia doesn't make the Romanian spoken in those regions "dialects", because only the accents are different, and i can perfectly understand everything they say, despite the fact that i'm from Muntenia!
In spite of being Russian I understand that Moldovans will be richer and have more opportunities with EU rather than with my country. No wonder that a young generation is looking to Europe with a hope.
It's sad but Russia has always had bad leaders hell bend on colonizing the world. If I were Russian, I'd never vote for an ethnically Russian male ever again since that's the demographic most responsible for the terror. Of course, voting in Russia rarely has mattered in history so it's really pointless to try.
Why moldovan to be with You rusians instead to be with Romanian brothers same language ,culture and aspirations??!,
Is not against Rusia, we dont have nothing with Rusia, but teritorial Moldova is România, so moldovians în the future wil return în the romanian family.
Yes!! Europe is a beacon of hope for all the world, I hope my country accepts more muslim refugees. It’s the right thing to do!
Russian??? No thanks
As a Ukrainian, I fully support Romanian reunification as this is the only viable way to sustain peace in Transnistria and Gagauzia
Thank you! The problem is that we Romanians 🇷🇴 don’t want anything to do with Transnistria where they still have a Supreme Soviet and hammer and sickle on their flag 😅 Would you like or care to take it? 😅
@@CalinGileawhat? Out with the comunists and keep the land, easy beasy, that land is ours
As a Romanian I hope you lose as much territory to Russia as possible. And that we take back Bucovina where you mistreated Romanians.
@@emanuelpetre5491 Tu sigur ești român? Doar întreb, că poate ești rus...
@@emanuelpetre5491and Hungary should take back Transilvania
As a Moldovan with both Romanian and Ukrainian ancestry, I hope for a unification between Romania and Moldova. Though if there is even the slightest chance of it not happening, we Moldovans and Romanians are the same people.
🇲🇩🤝🇷🇴 Trăiască România
why do half of Moldovans have Ukrainian surnames?
@@СергійТерещук-о5в a lot of us do have ties with Ukraine including myself, not to mention for how long Moldova has been part of both the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and not to mention Moldovans complicated history of being part of big Slavic empires such as the Kieven Rus as one of them. It is not to be said we are not Romanians though, we always were and always will be, though Moldovans are much more likely to have ties to Slavs than Romanians.
@@BalkanVlachthat is, you still admit that you are "not such Romanians." It's like the Dutch and Flanders, Germans and Austrians. That's reason enough for them to have their independent states...
@@СергійТерещук-о5в not really like the Dutch or Germans. We have the same culture, dances and food, and we speak the same language as the Romanians. A lot of us do have Slavic ancestry as many Moldovans and Romanians do but we are Romanians all the way.
@@СергійТерещук-о5в because Kazakhs live in romania and moldova too, not just in Ukraine
As a Ukrainian, hope Moldova whether with Romania or individually integrates into EU and NATO in the nearest future
As a romanian i hate nato and capitalism
@@utvm6748so you want to be poor and be bombed by russians
@@utvm6748no one really LIKES capitalism, but social democracy is the closest economically viable system to Marxist ideals of equality anyone in the world has achieved thus far. It relies on a capitalist market to fund social services. While the Warsaw Pact nations were failing Scandinavia was thriving. You should need little more evidence
As for NATO, can Romania defend itself without an international military alliance? No. Would Russia like to seize influence and control in Romania? Yes.
So ... What's your alternative? I see none right now.
@@utvm6748as a moldovan, we can switch places if you hate it so much. I'm sure you'd love to deal with a bunch of russian/communist remants all day
There is no alternative. You will hear 15% Romanians which are being pulled by a new self-proclaimed nationalist party (AUR), claiming otherwise. That is not the case. The aforementioned party is funded by Russia. Those 15% are either uneducated or incapable of higher thought. Just ignore them.
In Romania and Rep. Moldova there is one language, Romanian language that has no dialects (so called Daco-Romanian dialect aka Romanian Language). There are other 3 dialects that are not in Romania or Rep. Moldova. The other 3 dialects are: Istro-Romana (in Croatia), Aromanians (in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia) and Megleno-Român (Bulgaria Greece).
Go please to Moldova and look carefully, how people are speaking. In 1994 I had to admit in the COLEGIUL AGRICOL at Taul, Moldova, that there is a lot of russian (or sovjetic?) infiltrations to be found in the “roumanian language”, which made that language in some parts not comprehensible at all. As a German, who studied since 1979 peasants life in different regions of Romania, I got used as well to “moroseneste”, i.e. the old dialect of Maramureș. But in Republica Moldova the communication had been sometimes awful, because one couldn’t get the sense…. You are sounding like the “Dictionarul ale limbii Romane” din timpul lui Ceausescu. Can You follow me?
@@stephandrube8658 ...dear don't give to a Romanian lessons about his language, please ... between "bucurestean accent" and "moldovean accent" is like when a Scotish speak with somebody from London ... for you is hard to understand ... for me is not ... and I speak abut the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF MOLDOVA (ROMANIAN, the language that they learn in school) ... the grammar and vocabulary are identical in BOTH COUNTRIES .... also, you have to know that we have 4 Classical Writers: 2 of them are form Moldova: Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.Ion Creanga in special brought in the Romania literature "dulcele grai moldovenesc", I repeat to be uderstood: DULCELE GRAI MOLDOVENESC (Grai is sg. from GRAIURI). You don't understand THE MOLDAVIAN ACCENT and THE REGIONAL VOCABULARY .... But the language is VERY ROMANIAN ... I repeat, THERE ARE NOT DIALECTS ON THE ROMANIAN AND R.MOLDOVA TERITORIES ... what you call DIALECT is actually GRAIURI !!!! it is something else that YOU CAN NOT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU WAS NOT BORN AND YOU WERE NOT RAISED IN ROMANIA !!!!! also there is GRAIUL MARAMURESEAN ... there is NOT "DIALECT MARAMURESEAN" ...
@@stephandrube8658 ... here lesson for C programing language (Surprise ... the "Moldavian language" in the video is IDENTICAL with my language, Romanian , I repeat, IT IS IDENTICAL !!!!!!!!! ): ua-cam.com/video/xtlOyoWInHA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ABCodeMoldova
@@stephandrube8658 it is because of the Russian language and occupation influence my dear fellow..that is why...but Moldovan and Romanian are the same...you are a bit limited in your research if not biased! Have you been in Moldova recently? or have you heard a Romanian speaking with a Moldovan ...both in Romanian? hmm?
@@stephandrube8658 the dialects are only Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, all of them found in ex-Yugoslavia and Albania. The Romanian language spoken in Moldova, Transilvania, Maramures etc can't be called a "dialect", but an accent! You don't know anything about our language...
Best wishes for our Romanian brothers from Poland!! Time to finally tear down the remains of the Ribbentropp-Molotov Pact.
East and West Germany REUNITED !!!
Moldova and Romania SEPARATED ???
Yugoslavia separated?
Czechoslovakia separated?
Greater Russia disbanded?
Greater Rzechpospolita demolished?
Ireland separated?
Pakistan and India separated?
The list is going on and on.
This is called history.
You gotta unwind quite a lot and open quite a few Pandora boxes under the pretext of claiming historical land back.
Well, because East and West Germany was called East and West GERMANY for a reason. Meanwhile Its not called East and West Romania or Moldova, those are two separate countries.
@@gaborrajnai6213 but the Western part of the Principality of Moldova is part of Romania / founded Romania in 1859 by uniting with Wallachia. The Rep of Moldova is just the Eastern part of the Principality of Moldova. Most moldovans 5 million live in Romania, all the moldovan capitals (Iasi, Suceava, Baia) are in Romania, the river Moldova is in Romania, all the moldovan hystoric figures (poets, intellectuals, leaders, etc) lived in Western Moldova which is part of / founded Romania since 1859.
@@gaborrajnai6213 Are you sure that you didn't wrote a nonsense? Who called this country "Moldavia"? Not russia??? Sorry but what russia says is usually a big trash.
Your name is Gabor....shall I remember you the 1956 moment in Hungary? Or the Czechoslovakia in 1968? Why russia came to Hungary? For a party?
The RE-UNIFICATION of Romania & Moldova would be great. Hope it happens one day, but only if both populations vote for it.
The two governments can agree about it, at least. No one asked the population during pandemics, why would they do now? Ofc we don’t need this stupid border(s) dividing us. Imagine having to wait 5 hours at the customs, or fearing to be shot by transnistria’s “border patrol”, Jeez.
When were they actually unified? In fact 'Romania' didn't even exist until about 150 years ago. It's funny how any Western European nationalism is deconstructed but the fancies of 'Romanian' and 'Ukrainian' nationalists are treated as gospel truth.
@@mitchyoung93 Buddy, all 3 major romanian medieval states were reunited during the reign of Michael the Brave, some 420 years ago. Also, stfu exposing your precious opinion, and if you don't know something feel free to ask.
@@mitchyoung93 Bassarabia aka today's Moldova united with Romania in 1918. Learn some history.
@@mitchyoung93 Undercover Kremlin bot detected!
As a Moldovan i relly whant to be part of a Greater Romania
First we need northern bucovina back from the leeches in the north. Only then can talks of Greater Romania start.
As a Romanian, I say NO to unification. We don't need a Russian minority added to our country. It would be reason for endless conflict. They would refuse to integrate and learn the language. They would demand schools in the Russian language. They would have strong connections to Russia. They would change the political climate. Our border would be to close to Russia.
If our non-Russian Moldovan brothers want to move to Romania they are welcome! But no unification.
we do too
@@nedal1alex123România este casa ta! Salutări din București!
@@nedal1alex123 Alo, toate tarile au teritorii in alte tari...Asa si ungurii vor ardealul, bulgarii dobrogea, etc..O sa le dam trasnistria la schimb pe bucovina
Moldovan from Chisinau here, i hope to see Romania and Moldova reunited! 💙💛♥
Romanian here, I hope one day you guys won't struggle like you do now. I can't wait for a time when I know for certain your families don't worry at all about making ends meet.
@@BusinessWolf1 noi suntem in cacat din cauza ruzziei
I see many people give as reference many nations in Europe that are similar but not the same. It is not the case with Romania and Moldova. We are the same people. Historic Moldova united with Transilvania and Wallachia and formed Romania. The guy who formed the first union between Walachia and Moldova was originally from Moldova. His name is Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Historical Moldova's capitals are all located in Romania. All the important poets and writers were born in Western Moldova, aka Romania. All their culture, music and food is rooted in Romania. Their identity is ROMANIAN. Republic of Moldova is only the eastern part of the Historical Moldova who joined the other 2 romanian states to form Romania. My wife is from R. Moldova, I am from center of Romania and I can tell you that apart of the accent and a few regional words (regional synonyms that all Romanians know but we use them. less) , nothing is different.
First there was Great Wallachia, then they split up and Romanian Country and Moldova appeared
@Aldoma-up8od no propaganda, my wife is from R Moldova and there is absolutely no difference in language and I have been there many times. ;)
First union was under Michael the Brave in 1600.
@Aldoma-up8od you the soviets know the historical truth. lol
@@Sofia-0001 Da! Asta am vrut și eu să comentez!
Pretty good video, I am a Romanian who is reads daily news on Moldova. However there's some things that you've got quite wrong
First the pronunciation of Gagauzia. Rather than Gau-gezia, it'd be Gaga-uzia.
You presented Moldova as trapped in severe crises but these are largely over. Prices and inflation have gone down and Moldova has already solved it's gas dependency on russia. Moldova does not export gas from russia anymore. It is in fact Romania the one that helped Moldova overcome the crisis.
Transnistria is not an impediment for Moldova for becoming a full member of the EU. The EU has stated Moldova will be able to join following the Cyprus precedent.
Lastly, you could've mentioned the unionist movement and the impact that war has had on it. Recently a poll indicated 40% of Moldovans supported unification of Romania while 50.3% opposed it. This is a two year high and the second biggest result ever since Moldovan independence, and it is bound to grow. All those russian strategies to undermine Moldova reduced unionist and pro-European sentiment in Moldova, but as Moldova has successfully combated these crises, both are going up again in the last recent months. To me it'd appear that unionism will keep growing, specially considering that Romanian is now the official language in the Moldovan constitution.
thank you for bringing more clarification
I already commented while editing the audio to him that his pronounciation of Gagauzia would result in comments about it, which was after I had noted him before his recording of the audio that it's Gagauzia (though I had also read it gaugazia originally xd) and after it had become a bit too late to rerecord such a minor problem.
Just some little production schenanigans :D
Nobody can put an artificial border between people who speak the same language - romanian language. Moldovans are Romanians. Justice for Romania !
No
"Nobody can put an artificial border between people who speak the same language" - I presume you agree with the transfer of majority Hungarian settlements along the Hungarian-Romanian border too
Idk dude. There's plenty of countries that share a language with an artificial border. Most of South America, US/Canada, the Swahili region in Africa, the Middle East, India/Pakistan, and probably some other examples that I'm forgetting would beg to differ. I think that the will of the people should be far more important than perceived linguistic and ethnic differences
Oh yes it can … just look at Serbia and Montenegro and Republik of srpska
@@PrexXyx Romania didn't occupied with force that territory,it different than Moldova so your argument is zero
Simple: do Romanians consent to unification? Do Moldovans consent? If yes, go ahead and do it. Fast track into the EU for Moldova, they're already an applicant.
As long as there is a teritorial dispute no one can unite no matter what they want...since Romania is in NATO...and NATO will have to eliberate Transnistria under articole 5 which means going against Russia...this is an old Russion strategy occupy and deport locals to claim majority and stop any idea of a unification
@@Outcast100 That’s not entirely true. Territorial disputes aren’t a hindrance in joining the EU, so that’s a possibility for Moldova (which already is a candidate country). A territorial dispute in Moldova wouldn’t stop it from becoming NATO territory if Moldova reunited with the NATO country Romania since the latter already is in NATO. However, an independent Moldova won’t be able to join NATO for as long as there is a territorial dispute.
A reunified Romania would currently mean Russian troops in NATO. So if Russia wants to avoid war with NATO, it would have to withdraw its troops from Transnistria.
USSR killed and deported Moldovans from Moldovan SSR which affirmed Romanian identity. Simultaneously, they broadcasted on a daily basis a lot of lies, such as: ”Romanians were mean occupants, we came to free you up! Romanians are bad, but lucky you Moldovans - you are a different people!”
In USSR normally other socialist countries literature (Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, etc) could be bought. However, even socialist Romanian books / press were forbidden in Moldovan SSR, in spite (or rather due to) the greatest demand. USSR tried to severe all ties of East-Moldovans with Romania.
That is why the USSR propaganda partially succeeded. Today 80% of population in R. Moldova are ethnic Romanians (”Moldovans”) but only 50% of them (40% of total population) supports re-unification with Romania.
The good thing is the Soviet lying propaganda gradually washes out, the support for reunification slowly increases.
Travelling in Rep.Moldova since 1994, I had been this time quite surprised, when a lot more people I got to know, sublined, that Republica Moldova should remain ne-utral. And this just in the month of the “Chisinău-Meeting” for joining the EU in may. They started to deliver their excellent wines and tasteful vegetables to Central Asia, India and China. In European Community we are already fed up by these😢
If you look at the two most corrupt European countries you will find that they are Moldova and Ukraine. There is a reason that NATO rushed Sweden and Finland into NATO as they bring economic and military pluses. You can say the same can be said for EU
What a very interesting story. I had no idea about the history of Moldova and Romania.
Moldovan Republic aka Bessarabia, the bigger part and the most Moldovans from the historical Moldova are Romanians, inside Romania since the 1859 union with Wallachia. Two Romanian principalities..
Is one history.
Traiasca România Mare!
Moldova is a beautiful place. I hope whatever they choose can help them develop 🇲🇩
Why are you everywhere ?
Moldova dintre Prut si Nistru se va dezvolta....sub bocancul rusesc....la fel ca în timpul ussr---adică moldovenii vor fi sklavii ruşilor😂
For the glory of Rome unite guys, love from Greece!
do yall greeks want to join with cyprus as 1 nation?
im curious if nationalism is still alive in european countries
im iranian and i like the idea to join kurds and afghans to iran
Nationalism is a plague. The only thing it ever led to and will lead to is destruction and death.
@@pivomanslovensko unrelated. Go cry to a video about nationalism
@@notatroll78thats different. Greek and cyprus are about mutual rejoining of greeks
@@notatroll78 Would Kurds & Afghans want that? From what I know, Kurdish people wanted their own country & Afghanistan fought hard for independence.
The unifications between RO-MD and GR-CY are about territories inhabitted by the same people/ethnicity, largely speaking. And it's a mutual sentiment, like with Kosovo & Albania for example. Not about territorial gains of other peoples...
Great video! You should make one on the same topic with Bulgaria. It would be pretty easy too, just take this video and switch the following words: Romania-Bulgaria; Moldova-Macedonia; Transylvania-Thrace; Bucovina-Western Outlands (don't forget northern Dobruja as well) and you're done!
All the historical processes that you outlined in this video are essentially identical to the ones that took place in the regions that I listed.
Looking forward to it!
Don't forget half of the Black Sea!!😃
Macedonia will NEVER be a part of Bulgaria NEVER
why tho?@@Sgajwkjdjsja
Before you mention north Dobroja, aka Carvuna in medieval times, don't forget to mention the ancestors of Romanians, the Geto Dacians of upper and lower Moesia, up to Haemi Mountains, the guys who gave the name of the Valkan peninsula, and then the Romans, the guys attested to live there cummulated for more than 1800 years before the Turanic Onogundur turk gang showed up about 680 and made an empire out of majority former Romans, already proto - Romanians by that time, on their own land, then using the language of Sclaveni of Ohrida in administration and church to distance themselves from the Greeks and Catholics in Rome, while still calling themseves real Romans. Cheers former Romanian brothers from south Danube.
As a romanian, I want to confirm that moldovian is the same language as romanian, it's just a different accent.
As Moldovan, I am happy to see you got all facts right.
Today's Romania is a pretty cool country. We have offices in Timisoara and have looked at Cluj as well. Both cities are very european and love working with our romanian colleagues. They are great engineers and professionals.
As someone who is pro-Russia, I suppport the reunification and seriously don't understand what these idiotic Soviets thought when dividing Romania. The current borders are painful to look at.
In fact Russia followed the long term politics - the basis were established during the rule of Peter the Great. Russia wanted to arrive at the Danube's mouth, to control the Danube and in this way the Central Europe. During the last 200 years Russia had this obsession - to control the Danube. And the Black Sea. That's why they grab some land from Romania, and the land is the eastern half of Moldavia. Moreover, this time Russia broken Moldavia to pieces, transferring the southern part (Bugeac) and the northern part (half of historical Romanian province Bucovina including Cernauti city) to Ukraine, they transferred Transnistria to Moldavia, mixing the population an loosing the entity of the land. If you look at the map is easy to see that they cut completely the access of Moldova to the Danube river, in this way transforming Moldavia in a land locked "country". This is Russia.
The biggest issue for Russia (regarding Danube) is that the whole Europe had a treaty which oblige everybody to use Sulina channel for transportation (the middle arm of the river).
In order to keep Russia away from controlling the access, Romania spent a fortune to build the Danube - Black Sea channel, which connect the port of Constanta with the Danube river.
This was Russia.....and still threat everyone, so this evil empire should disappear. Look at Georgia in 2008, Armenia and Azerbaidjan, Kazakhstan last year, Chechenia, Poland and Finland in WWII, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Hungary in 1956, Moldavia starting from 1812, again in 1878, then after the WW I Moldavia reunited with Romania and we had a few conflict with the bolschevik troops, but Russia returned in June 1940 attacking and occupying the eastern part of Moldavia. Nothing to say about the disaster named communism and exported in the whole Eastern Europe.
Well, they didn't have to think much at all... they simply followed the Ribbentroappa-Molotoava pact of 1939 and acted as such! That was it basically...
What are your reasons to suspect that "any kind of thinking" was whatsoever involved...??! 🙄
Both modern Ruznitski-land and Germany, have officially condemned the pact... but do their chauvinistic ways, allow them to really care in fact??! Never!
Love you bro
We stand with 🇲🇩
Moldovans is also what most of historical regions from inner Romania call themselves. I'm also half Vrancean, more or less the historical region of Stefan the Great's legend of Vrâncioaia and her 7 sons
As a Ukrainian i always knew thaz we systematically and politically discriminat all romanoans on our territories. Nord Bucovina was, still is and honestly will al3be romanian. Our politician don't recognize it, unfortunately. But we should give this territories back to Romania again. Also the northen part of Maramures and south Bessarabia inclusive Akkermann (Cetatea Alba).
Noi nu revendicăm teritorii cum face Rusia. Vă doresc mult succes să câștigați acest război!
@@sacotafiruta2348ai dreptate, imi place mentalitatea ta de sclav, miroase a roman modern.
@@sacotafiruta2348Cine te crezi tu sa vorbesti in numele majoritatii? 😂Doar pt ca politicienii nu spun nimic nu inseamna ca n-ar fi revendicari; doar ca nu e momentul oportun!
@@sacotafiruta2348 Dreptul internațional nu interzice discuțiile despre teritorii. Dreptul internațional permite schimbările pașnice, negociate.
Dreptul internațional, respectat de România, interzice violența și amenințarea cu violența. Da, nu vom revendica cu forța. Dar ar trebui să stăm de vorbă cinstit, sau la o instanță de judecată internațională - cum am făcut și cu platoul continental, din care Ucraina a vrut să ne ia o bucată, bazându-se pe Insula Șerpilor (ea însăși luată samavolnic de la România).
Chirnivtsi is Ukrainian not Romanian
Greater România existed. Thank you for the story.
Author does not speak about Moldova here.
He speaks about ”Republic of Moldova” - which is a different thing; it is the eastern part of Moldova, formerly under Russian/Soviet occupation.
Moldova, with all its former capitals and the majority of Moldovans (Romanains) is already in Romania, being one of the ”builders” of modern Romania.
The intro is just beautiful!
The part describing the post war developments Romania and Moldova feels a little confusing without mentioning that the Romanian communist party gained control of the Romanian government specifically.
The background music could have been a notch quieter in some parts such that it wouldn't sound like it's competing with the narration for attention at the same time, as the narration should be the clearly louder one compared to background music. Best example of this problem is imo in the part describing the fall of Communist Romania.
I must say the narration compared to the two prior videos sounds better such that I don't find myself being distracted by it, especially with the excellent music accompanying it.
The audio transition to the sponsorship segment could have been more smooth, though I don't have much to comment about it besides that.
The economics part upon my curret watch does sound a little outdated while being factual
My last critique shall be that I feel like another song would have fit the outro section better.
Besides these, great video once again!
God bless Romania ❤
Great video, very well documented.
the romanians invested heavily in Cadrilater after anexation , but it was bulgarian soil and they gived it back with no problems; but in other parts where is a majority of romanian speaking population it was just robbed from, and despite romania havily backing Ukraine , romanians in Ukraine are fobiden to talk romanian, our schools were closed , and all learning is made in Ukraine speaking schools and they are forced to learn ucraininan and renounce romanian heritage, the same thing in Serbia. I'm have a bulgarian/serbian and romanian background and have family in all 3 countries, by far the only people acting decent towards romanians are the bulgarians, institutionally speaking (national policy and official rullings , not the people , the people are the same everywhere)
As a Ukrainian, I’ll say that I was in the territories near the modern borders of Romania, I didn’t notice anything that you said. The only thing I’ll add is that Ukrainian is still the state language and compulsory for all citizens.
@@ZondAra_
"I didn’t notice anything that you said"
personal experience doesn't exclude the existence of what we would call a problem. there have been multiple accounts of mistreatment of minorities in ukraine from different countries. leaving aside the notion that you are holding territories that other states also have a claim on, the least the ukrainians can do, is make sure they don't force the ukrainian identity on other ethnicities. to have ukrainian as mandatory curriculum is normal, since they live in ukraine and they absolutely will need to know the language. but other than that, they should probably also have curriculum in their own language, church in their own language, and press in their own language without "little green men" appearing out of nowhere to "pacify" them. which has happened many times over. to be completely fair, we are also probably guilty of romanianizing the ukrainians we had in our terittory, though i'm not sure what the scale of that was. from what i gather this was long ago. still, such practices are vilified in modern society. just saying.
good luck with the war. we are all rooting for you.
@@Voroniel what you say is indeed true, and I agree with your statements. By "imposition of Ukrainian identity and forced assimilation" you most likely mean radical nationalists, who are not only here, but who have been especially zealously imposing their opinions in a society that has been rocked to the limit lately. regarding the last fact from my "epic" I will probably even apologize, given the overly radical national position of some citizens of my country, which is not quite normal in my opinion, and also stupid, given that their views still change little in the war for spheres of influence. and finally, thank you both for your comment and in general.
Great work guys, love from Romania.
Great insight, thank you for the work
I wish of the reunification of Romania and Moldava. It benefits both and we are basically one nation.
The statement that most Moldavians are not Romanians cause they identify themselves as Moldavians is misleading as all true Moldavians are Romanians as well and the answer you get depends greatly on how you put the question.
For example: I am a Romanian from what was the medieval Romanian kingdom of Wallachia before it united with Romanian medieval kingdoms of Moldova and Transylvania and modern day Romania was formed. This Union was done willingly as we lived on these lands from the beginning of humanity (oldest human remains in Europe were found in Romania) and always had one culture, language and faith; even though many empires tried to absorb or replace us. During the ancient times we were also united under the Kingdom of Dacia until we were forcedly split by attacks of migratory people from all sides. Was chaos everywhere during the Dark ages.
So if you ask me if I am Wallachian I will say yes. That doesn't mean I want to say I am just Wallachian and not Romanian. Same with Moldavian people. When they say they are Moldavians they mean Romanian people from what was the Kingdom of Moldavia
Chiar asa,valah?Eu ma identific cu statul unitar român.
@@alexam1848 Păi asta am zis și eu, că sunt român valah. Toți valahii sunt români dar nu toți românii sunt valahi. Sunt români moldoveni, ardeleni etc.
Așa și cu cei din Moldova când sunt întrebați dacă sunt moldoveni. Normal că răspund că da, dar asta nu înseamnă că vor să zică că nu sunt români.
Sondajele alea cred că sunt făcute prost din greșeală sau chiar intenționat. Și după unii se folosesc de ele să anunțe că uite 75% din oamenii din Moldova se identifică ca moldoveni, deci nu români. De parcă se exclud una pe alta.
Moldova a votat de bunăvoie pentru Unire să devenim un popor, înainte să fie furați de ruși și spălați pe creier unii dintre ei din păcate.
Și s-ar fi unit din nou cu noi in 90 dacă nu îi ataca armata rusă din Transnistria care e încă acolo și încă îi împiedică
16:00 you make it sound like we are dieing out in Moldova of starving and cold, we live quite good
17:45 the Republic of Moldova in 2023 only has 2.5 million people and Transnistria 0.4 million. Together just 2.9 million, not 3.4 million.
As a Romanian i have no idea what borderless transport feels like as we STILL aren't in the Schengen Zone even though we've completed all necessary tasks to join it.
The Russification of Bessarabia started in 1812 after the annexation of Bessarabia by the tsarist Russian empire.
Part of it was the transplantion of Gaugasians from Bulgaria to Bessarabia and the removal of Romanians/Moldovans , Bulgarians and Turks and Tatars from Bugeac /Budzak who were replaced with Ucrainians & Russians.
Perfectly put
As a Romanian that i have roots in the Romanian Region Moldavia and also in The country of Moldavia 🇲🇩 i can truly say that we are part of the same blood 🩸 !
But our history goes back in time 14 centuries !
Stefan Cel Mare !
Pace ☮️
I'd rather let Transnistria do whatever they need to because they shouldn't be part of Greater Romania. They are so different that they will never adapt to a Romanian governing body and I wouldn't ask them to, it's like asking Kosovo to unite with Serbia again.
6:36 EXCUSE ME? „Serbian, which is spoken in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.“ The people in Croatia do NOT speak Serbian. Neither do the people in Serbia speak Croatian. What an ignorant statement. The language is usually referred to as Serbocroatian and is derived from a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Let me quote wikipedia here: „In the mid-19th century, Serbian (led by self-taught writer and folklorist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić) and most Croatian writers and linguists (represented by the Illyrian movement and led by Ljudevit Gaj and Đuro Daničić), proposed the use of the most widespread dialect, Shtokavian, as the base for their common standard language.“ Do your research before you claim things.
Banger video as always 😻
I just want a country on the European map that looks like a goldfish. May it swim towards unity.
When there will be reunification Romania will not only have a strong Hungarian and Saxon/Swabian minority, it will have also a strong Ukrainian, Russian and Gagausian minority. That is something a lot of the self proclaimed "patriots" don't think of. It will make some things in the political process a bit more difficult.
As a Transilvanian who is used to our local historic multi-ethnic society, I welcome reunification with Moldova, but for some people in the more mono-ethnic South of Romania it will be a bit difficult to adapt to that. Reunification will definitively make Romania more multi-ethnic than it is now.
In R. Moldova (excluding Transnistria) there are 80% ethnic-Romanians.
The Transnistrian Ukrainian villages can be swapped with Romanian/Moldovan villages near border (Mămăliga in North or Cartal in South). Win-win.
one more reason for the hungarians to support roUmd
Dialects of Romanian are Aromanian (in Macedonia and Grece), Istroromanian (Croatia), Meglenoromanian (in Grece). "Moldavian" Romanian is dialect as much as English (US, Au, NZ,...) are dialects of English (GB-standard BBC).
In the EU Moldova can be "united" with Romania, like Poland is united with Germany or like Hungary is united with Romania... in the UE countries remain separated, they do NOT unite at all.
Why can't Moldova be re-united with Romania just like German reunification: East Germany integrated in West Germany ?
@@BasedBoy2017 that's my opinion too. The only solution for Moldova is to reunite with Romania just like East and West Germany did in 1990. The EU integration of Moldova separated from Romania will never happen anyway. Russia and the moldovan oligarchs (including Vlad Filat, the boss of Maia Sandu) try to see this ideea of Moldovas integration into the EU separated from Romania because they know it will never happen and so Moldova will remain a colony of Russia.
Yes, but they're a lot closer.
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 Vlad Filat is the boss of Maia Sandu? What are you talking about?
@@9_9876es he is. The oligarch Vlad Filat is the one who introduced Maia Sandu into politics by making her his minister of education for many years even if she had practically zero political experience. Filat was Maia Sandu’s boss for many years and he financed her every move and made her the president she is today. Maia Sandu is Vlad Filat’s marionette and most probably former lover. After Filat was imprisoned and Maia Sandu became president she immediately began to wash his image and a few months later liberated him even if he is very corrupt and together with Ilan Shor stole 1 billion $. Filat uses Maia Sandu as a marionette because she seams innocent and people trust her. Maia Sandu continues the same identical politics and ideology of Vlad Filat, integration into the EU separated from Romania and with the russian military base Transnistria, which of course will never happen, and that’s exactly what Vlad Filat wants so he ca remain the master of the Republic of Moldova.
Great video 🎉😊
comparing Moldova and Romania to Croatia and Serbia is way off, mate. Languege might be similar, just like Scandinavian languages are similar one to another. Nobody says that people in Denmark speak Swedish.
Romania will become a regional power. Just wayt to see!
It would be nice, but I am pretty sure Poland will overshadow us.
😂
Interesting perspective 👍
How the fuck have you only got 19k subs? Hidden gem of a channel, quality content man. Have some algorithm points.
I’ve visited the PMR, and all i can say is that the soil is good, the people are nice and are clever, there are roads and electricity. But it looks like going back in time.
Strangely enough it looked cleaner than Moldova tho, but there where a lot more old people sweeping the streets to supplement a very meager pension. Russian troops on the street looked like they last saw new equipment in the 90’s,
one of the BTR’s they had parked at the border near Bender even had soft tires.
True, but if you visit Orhei town in Moldova republic controlled territory you will be shocked to see how clean it is, cleaner than Bender or Tiraspol. It depends on local administration, it doesn’t have to do with the future of a country. Libya was “clean” too... remember.
I am not talking about the Old Orhei but about the actual town of Orhei.
Definetely Romania and Moldova will be one country again. They speak the same language, have the same culture, traditions, religion.
Croatian is spoken in Croatia and even if Serbs in Croatia sometimes do say they speak Serbian, Shtokavian in Croatia is considered Croatian with Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects also being just Croatian and not spoken by Serbs, in Bosnia language is very simillar and Croats call it Croatian, Serbs call it Serbian and Bosniaks call it Bosnian, diffierences between 3 variants are minimal, Serbs in Serbia speak ekavian Štokavian variant which everyone calls Serbian and there is also Torlakian Serbian, Montenegrins speak Ijekavan Štokavian called Montenegrin by Montenegrins but considered Serbian by ethnic Serbs, also Kajkavian Croatian is closer to Slovene than to Serbian, most of languages are mutually inteligable but Kajkavian and Chakavian are a bit different.
Tačno
Yeah, but the goal is to not have the political relations of the Balkans... 😂
In the Balkans you have a post-genocidal culture noone wants to follow, so please don't give advice
It sounds complicated..... 🙂
But here, in Romania, there are no dialects. We can speak - Moldovans and Romanians - without any issue. Grammar is only one, words are identical, the single difference are the archaic words which are also - most of them - fully understandable, and some regional words which are also understandable for all. There are some accents in Transylvania and Moldavia, but are completely irrelevant, affecting only the pronunciation. But the words are identically written. To be more clear, the Republic of Moldavia and the Romanian region of Moldavia have a completely identical accent. Moldavia was one piece till russia came and took the eastern half. In a few words....that's it.
@@gabiv8479 I did notice some Slavic and Turkish words in mostly Latin vocabulary in Romanian.
As a Bessarabian (moldovan) I think there are only two options for us: Unification or a One Nation two states scenario i.e. Bessarabia is, technically, independent but is close as can be economically, energy -se, militarily, culturally as possible while still being two states ( with or without Transnistria I personally don't care either way.)
I hope Romania won't take any risks to escalate any questionable actions
We won't. We're not Russia
05:16 Collectivization means the land is seized by the state from everyone, large and small land owners. It't not being redistributed to the peasants, the peasants just become employees of the state, willing or not. Resistance meant a trip to the Romanian gulag or death in a mass grave.
日本人は知らない話題ですね。。。。偉大なる大ルーマニアの再建を願います！！！
Respect from Romania,i love Japan ❤❤❤🇷🇴🇯🇵
@@Levi.Gabriel-mb9oteste trol rus! Să discerne, lucruri!
06:34
Serbian is not spoken in Croatia, except by Croatian Serbs. This exact statement was one of the major reasons for the wars 30 years ago. It would be equally wrong to say Croatian is spoken in Serbia, except by Croats in Vojvodina. It's like saying Danish is spoken in Norway - I understand the logicals behind the statement, but it's still incorrect.
Standard Croatian and Serbian, while being 99% mutually intelligible, are not the same. Besides the obvious difference - Latin and Cyrillic alphabet - each has unique grammar features that clearly separate those two languages. Not to mention that Croatian was heavily influenced by Latin, Italian and German, while Serbian was heavily influenced by Greek, Russian and Turkish. When it comes to dialects, the difference is obvious - basically, if you let Croat from northern Croatia or Dalmatia talk in his dialect with a Serb from Pirot or Niš, they will have a very hard time understanding each other.
When you join the Schengen zone, you still have borders... or did you hit your head? Every country still has full territorial autonomy and as shown recently with the Visegrád Group, they can effectively defy any EU law and mandate, which would include Schengen free passage.
Then why remain in the Schengen zone, if you don't enact the Schengen free passage? That's the whole point of Schengen 😂 Those countries might get excluded eventually...
@@dyawr Precisely because Schengen can be temporary, a re-unification is better.
minute 7:53 - that's Budapest :D
Oh snap, your right
Aren't the Russian soldiers in Transnistria a legitimate military target for Ukraine? They could help take them out.
No, not really. They are considered peacekeepers, any attack on them is basically an invasion of a sovereign country, Moldova. Now, of course, if Moldova would give an ultimatum and ask them to leave and they refused and then Moldova would ask for the help of Ukraine, then they could intervene... legally. But Moldova will not do this, they seek a peaceful resolution
@@Bayard1503 They will refuse to leave as long as Russia has Putin in the Kremlin. We’ll see
Very interesting video!!
İf Romania unites wirh Moldavia can Bulgaria ask for North Dobrudja ?
How many bulgarian speakers are in Dobrogea ? Just visit and see.
@@mihaiilie8808 There are bulgarians in bessarabia quite a lot and we still dont claim it.
İn North Dobrudja there are some but other got exchanged still it is not hard to exchange again.
Still accordğng to Hşstory the only reason Wallachia got that territory is cus they lose Bessarabia and now if we are fair they should return what tussşa took from us and gave to them.
We shall work together against Russia the.
Also lets not forget how many wallachians are actually bulgarşans that movrd there durning Bulgarşa eas under ottoma empire pr they stayed since the Bulgarian Empires thst covered whole Romanşa and part of Hungary and almost whole balkans.
Yet we claim only North Dobrudja, North Macedonia, aegan thrace , Edirne and Shopluk area in Serbia.
While we wa nt maşnly only North Macedonia and Shopluk rn cus they are still culturally and traditionally bulgarian while the otners are not fully but they have remains.
@@BringBackCyrillicBG one of my grand grand mothers was bulgarian but from an area in Bulgaria where there are quite a lot romanian speakers.
Thrace included whole Romania and maybe parts of Hungary too.
Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe ,Sofia is the oldest city in Europe,a nice country.
But the population now ,if they dont even know the language,you cant claim them.
Greece or Italy could claim Dobrogea too and also the turks,tatars.
About Macedonia,i agree thats Bulgarian .Lots of romanian speakers there too.
Nope!
@@BringBackCyrillicBG You can't reclaim anything anymore... both Romania and Bulgaria are E.U. and N.A.T.O. members! There are no such "swaps" possible between any of us! What would you do with "Northern Dobruja" anyways?? 🤔 Bulgaria has lots of coastline and can't protect it on it's own! I know, you thought maybe of the Black Sea oil & gas reserves inside Romanian's maritime exclusive economic zone... but no sorry, it's ours and c'est la vie...
In the context of the war in Ukraine I have been looking for more information on Transnistria region and Moldova. Thanks for offering this video. I take it that there is one faction in Moldova that would see enjoining with Romania could achieve NATO protections from Russian modern imperialism. Suffering under Soviet period is a terrible memory.
There is a need for some clarifications:
- Southern Dobrogea, known as "Cadrilater" in Romanian (from Latin "quadrilater" meaning "quadrangle") was illegally annexed by Romania in 1913.
- Northern Bucovina had a Romanian minority: it was mainly inhabited by Ukrainians.
- For the same reasons as Bucovina, Banat was divided between Romania and Serbia and Hungary.
- Bessarabia was part of the kingdom of Moldavia until 1812 and for more than a century, the czarist empire tried to colonize it; it was not a Russian province.
- Transnistria (meaning "beyond Dnister" in Latin) was a Romanian majority territory, until 1792 when it was occupied by Russians. It was Dacian in antiquity, the population being called Tyragetae, the Getaes of Tyras (today's Tiraspol) - Getae is the Greek name for Dacians.
- Gagauzia has a Christian Turkish population that forgot its language, history and allegiances, because of Russian propaganda in the media and during USSR. It was historically part of Bessarabia, but it does not have a Romanian majority population. It has autonomy in the Republic of Moldavia and extra powers in the Moldavian parliament that is well deserved, but the Russian Federation is using this status to block any Westward or towards Romania moves in Chisinau for the whole country. This region is nowadays more pro-Russian than Transnistria.
- Last, but not least, Transylvania (from the Latin "trans silvania" - the country beyound the woods) was always in majority Dacian or Romanian and was illegally annexed by Hungary. Around the year 1000, after failing to advance in the Western Europe, the Magyars started to attack Transylvania to extend their territories and in 200 years the annexation was complete. In the next 600 years Transylvania was either under Hungarian, or quasi-independent, or under Austrian-Hungarian, or Ottoman empire rule. In all this time, the majority of the population was the unrecognized nation of Romanians. They became recognized in 1848 following the revolt of 1848 in all Europe. In 1918 the majority got what was lawfully its own: the inhabited territory.
In conclusion, besides the Southern Dobrogea and Northern Bucovina, the Greater Romania was in its lawful boundaries. Even the Southern Bessarabia, which now is part of Ukraine was lawfully part of Romania and Bessarabia was never lawfully Russian.
Cred ca trebuie sa mai aprofundezi demografia istorica a nordului Bucovinei. Iar daca Cadrilaterul a fost "anexat ilegal" (si nu o sa intru in detalii legate de razboiaele balcanice si populatiile romanesti sud-dunarene si drepturile sau non-drepturile lor) la fel de bine poti discuta despre cat de romaneasca era Dobrogea cand a fost alipita Regatului. / You shoud do some more research on the historic demographics of North Bukowina. If the Cadrilater was "illegally annexed" yot can also discuss on how much was romanian the Dobrogea region when incorporated into the Romanian Kingdom (you have to study some historic demographics here as well :)) ).
This "analysis" or "clarification" is neither analytical nor clear.
The statement that the Cadrilater "was illegally annexed by Romania in 1913" is wrongful. Southern Dobruja was annexed by Romania in the aftermath of the Second Balkan War, ended by the Treaty of Bucharest (1913). Within this treaty was outlined the secession of the region to victorious Romania, an entirely lawful act. Bulgaria, the losing faction of the war, had waged conflict against Serbia, Montenegro, Greece. Romania and the Ottoman Empire (conflict with the latter being mediated following the 1913 Treaty of Constantinople). It was a reprehensible loss for the Bulgarians, but not an unlawful one. They were the aggressors invading their neighboring allies and, in the case of Romania, perpetuating diplomatic squabbles over the Northern Dobruja region.
Bukovina had been a Romanian territory, in terms of history and ethnic distribution, up until colonial settlement following the annexation of the territory by the Habsburgs in 1775 (following the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, end to a Russo-Turkish war neither Austria nor Moldavia had ever fought in or mediated). Even with the context of this annexation, Bukovinian populations retained a Romanian relative majority. The Austrian Empire had first occupied the territory in October 1774. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, they had claimed that Bukovina was needed to construct a road between Galicia and Transylvania. Moldavia at that time was one of the two Romanian governed nations alongside Wallachia which would - between the first common quasi-constitution of the "Regulamentul Organic", the revolutions in all Romanian land of 1848 and the first constitution adopted in 1866 - proclaim the formation of the unitary Romanian state, with the goal of uniting with Transylvanian and Bukovinian aspirations at the formation of a "Western" Romanian Kingdom within a federalized Austrian Empire. If we take this context into account, then we can see that within the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Duchy of Bukovina and representatives comprising the High National Romanian Council of Transylvania united with Romania, the latter forming the Directing Council of Transylvania, Banat and the Romanian Lands in Hungary. Northern Bukovina, as apart of the Duchy, had returned to Romanian territorial administration. It's partition came about following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania on June 26, 1940, that threatened the use of force. This had been apart of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and involved the illegal occupation of the Hertsa region and the Danube islands.
Thus, from previous context, we can understand that the partition of Banat had come amidst the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (as it had been an Imperial holding) and it's division had been agreed upon and reflected respective interests.
Transnistria was not a Romanian territory, it never was apart from a military occupation following WWII. From a historic point of view and a demographic point of view the territory had always been outside the reach of the Romanized populations (that would eventually comprise the Romanian nation) which at no point corresponded with the Dacian Kingdom at it's height, but rather with the provinces of Roman Dacia, Moesia Inferior and to a certain extent Moesia Superior.
As for Transylvania, the Latin name is misleading as it comes from a Hungarian translation and was used by Hungary since Latin (the ecclesiastical language of the Western Church) had been used as administrative and literary language. Also, it's territory had become a Hungarian realm following a war waged against the First Bulgarian Empire, and was by no means "illegally" occupied, as such terminology does not apply to the 10th and 11th centuries when this process gradually took place. Also, recognition of Romanians did not precisely follow the revolutions of 1848, and was in fact also tied with the gradual process enforced by Austria trough which the Romanians had become converted to the Greco-Catholic faith in Transylvania.
Aggressiv wallach "romanian" migration to Transylvania , Hungary ua-cam.com/video/XTdEpbjGdAw/v-deo.html
@@bujdososzekely Objectively wrong video, the statement that the Vlachs would have been pushed out by Ottomans makes no sense considering first attestations of Romanians north of the danube surfaced around the 10th to 11th centuries, with polities being specified.
@@bujdososzekelyThe massive, overwhelming and illegal immigration was of Hungarians who came from Asia
I hope you are right my brother and hope that Moldova unites back with Romania.
Could you please offer source for the demographics map from 3:27 ?
its just on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania#/media/File:Romania_1930_ethnic_map_EN.png
@@GeoPerspective Thanks!
So you are talking about Romania and Moldova, why are you showing Budapest at 7:46?
Thank you for the informative video. Helpful for someone from a different part of the world to understand this complex region.
0:18 ... no territorial ”expansion”!
Only unification of Romanian-inhabitated lands.
The ‘logic’ of uniting all speakers of a given language into one political state is exactly what Russian imperialism threatens. I’m all for Moldova (including the left bank of Dniester River) being politically United with Romania as its partition was effected by Russia specifically to cripple Romania and Romanian people’s aspirations. But a better notion than shared language needs to be sought as motivation and justification. Nevertheless Moldova and Romania form an organic cultural historical unity that is currently broken and should be restored. Most Moldovans speak Russian, so don’t cite language as the primary factor of unity.
Romanian reunification would happen through a referendum, not though an invasion, so no need to bring the Russia situation here. Also, while the vast majority of most Moldovans know Russian, Romanian is the language spoken on a daily basis by about 75% of the population.
@@giulestinha didn’t they have a referendum some years back in Moldova that ought to have paved the way for reunification already? I’m just saying shared language is a two edged sword, commonly used to ‘justify’ Russian imperial occupation.
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 They had a referendum in 1994 (so shortly after gaining independence and after the war in Transnistria), but it was just a general question, with no reference to reunification with romania. Question was: Are you for the Republic of Moldova to develop as an independent and indivisible state within the borders recognized by the UN, to promote a policy of neutrality, to maintain mutually beneficial economic relations with any country and to guarantee all its citizens equal rights according to the norms of international law?
@@giulestinha thanks! I had thought there was something much more recent where Moldovans showed a preference for reunification but the Muscovite govt ignored them. I see the Gagauz (what, 20,000 souls?) ‘feel threatened’ by the Romanianness of the region and have a Muscovite party named after its leader Sors who fled justice to Moscow.
This is disinformation. Most moldovans speak english too, even better than russian. We also speak french, german, italian. Wdym, speaking russian is a crime? My native language is romanian, I can even mix it with some russian words to piss out my “pure” romanian colleagues at my job, but does it make me a “different” romanian in any way? Have you read too much goebbels propaganda on racial purity?
I'll have to rewatch this because I got distracted by the beautiful soundtrack
Thanks a lot for this video! I am both moldovan and Romanian, these two being in fact a smaller “matryoshka” identity inside a larger one for many of my conationals (around 1 milion who obtained romanian passports and the ones that are supportive of reunification. There are also still a lot of moldovans who consider themselves a completely separate nation, which they have the right to do, despite that losing us, the 1 million moldo-romanians would be catastrophic for Moldova republic. Things will change as you anticipate here, Ukraine being supportive, not against us and ukrainians will accept a reunited Romania as we support them now.
I, as a Ukrainian, support the reunification of Moldova and Romania. In Ukraine, we would not even mind if Ukraine itself liquidated Transnistria and helped Moldova regain control of the land. After all, this is also in our interests.
I wish you all the best!
@@mxbyzantine Thanks man! Transnistria needs to be "absorbed" into Moldova first, but I would agree for Ukraine to even take it, or parts of it, for exchanging access to the sea. R I guess it would never happen tho, the only way Moldova can have sea access is to reunite Romania. As the author stated, if we will be in the EU we could go to the sea unrestricted, even in Ukraine. All you need is a fast railway and just more interconnectivity. Now also Transnistria hinders the transportation of goods and people. The rural population in Transnistria is 65% moldavian and 30% ukrainian, russians being only predominant in 3 bigger cities Bender, Tiraspol, Rybnitsya. We need a "special military operation", lol, aiming to capture the old weapon deposits at Kolbasna, Ukraine should work together with Moldova to capture those old weapons.
@@dumitrupogolsa7769 There was news a month ago that Ukraine and Moldova were building a bridge to bypass Transnistria.
@@mxbyzantine yeah... that is definitely not enough imo
@@mxbyzantine as a romanian ,thank you
" ...simmilar to Serbian, that is spoken in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro... " When discussing Balkan politics, one ought to thread carefully, because the whole area is mined (by Serbs) and it's very easy to get hurt
8:11 Both countries? Romania was never part of the USSR. We were under Soviet military occupation from 1944 to 1958, but never a part of USSR. Moldova was under occupation for a lot longer than that. ☹ The ruZZians deported ethnic Romanians from there to the mines in Siberia, replacing them with ethnic ruZZians. Exactly like how they have been doing with Crimea for these last 9 years (since 2014 when they illegally annexed it).
Romania hates ruZZia because they still haven't given us back our National Treasury: 100 tons of priceless gold artefacts from Daco-Roman times. The Central Powers were closing in on us, ruZZia said "trust us" and like fools, we did. 😐 We never saw it back. Europe is just now learning of ruZZians' lack of honor. We knew from long ago!
Adevărat frate
I hope you'll never have to try ukrainian honor, bro...
The clip with the bridges over the Danube are from Budapest, Hungary....
Yep, my bad
It is worth noting that half of the Moldovan region is in the Romanian part. Moldova as a region, whether or not it is part of Romania, was artificially divided by the Soviet Union. Having visited Romania twice and knowing a bit of history, especially in the context of the Middle Ages, I know that Moldova is a region significantly different from the rest of Romania in many respects and for centuries, thanks to its hospodars, it has maintained its political identity. Crossing the border of the Carpathians, you have the feeling of crossing the border between the east and the west. The definitely different architecture, landscape and clothes catch your eye immediately. I think that Romania has a good reason to strengthen ties with Moldova, but it should be up to the Moldovans to have the final word. It will be best if it takes place in an atmosphere of peace after the end of the war in Ukraine and preferably getting rid of the problem of Transnistria, which is a Russian cancer on Moldova's organism. After Moldova's integration with the European Union, there will be no barriers between Moldova and Romania anyway.
Great observation and completely true! Where are you from?
@@danthebiker07 Poland.
!!?? "The definitely different architecture, landscape and clothes.."Mr. specialist in Romanian traditions, if I'll demonstrate you Romanian-Moldovan costumes mixed with Romanian-Transilvanian costumes, I bet 1 million euros you won't be able to tell which is coming from where. Probably the same for church building and/or traditional houses.
If you look into small details, then "Moldova is a region significantly different from the rest of" Moldova (yes, itself!) in many respects.
In my understanding you mean us no harm, you wish us Moldovans-Romanians the best things - thank you; but please do not exaggerate whatever small differences you may see, or I'll prove you any two twins from Krakow are belonging to totally different nations : )
@@ionbrad6753 Sometimes for someone from outside such diferences are more obvious.
@@Pawel_Mrozek True. Lolek is short, Bolek is tall and slim; obviously they are from different nations! (only being ironic, of course).
Haven’t watched it all yet, but fully reuniting Greater Romania is practically impossible. Not only would it require reunification with Moldova, which would be its own hurdle, it would also require the cessation of land from both Ukraine and Bulgaria, the latter being a fellow EU and NATO member and the former being a prospective member of both. No country is willing to give up land, citizens, and resources to another for the sake of better borders, and most countries can’t or won’t fight for them. National reunifications across the world are pleasant fantasies, but no government would willingly sign itself out of existence.
Not really the point, since the territory of RM proper is considered close enough.
Nobody I know wants the interwar Greater Romania. We would like though to have Re-United Romania. That is Romania, R. Moldova and some Moldovan lands forcibly taken by Stalin and given to third parties, all thru negotiations according the Helsinki Final Act and/or international courts (no war, no threats whatsoever). We certainly do not want conflicts and do not want lands which are not inhabited by our own people, forcibly alienated by USSR. I refer to the spirit of Resolution 148 of the US Senate, 1991.
Moldova only has 2.5 million people in 2023, not 3.4 million.
With or without transnistria?Maybe thats the difference
@@rodrigocoelho643 with 2.9 without 2.5
True that. And Romania has some 18.5 millions, because of bad demographics and emmigration out of our country. There are around 100.000 ukrainians established since 2021 inside Romania and a bit more in Moldova republic. They are ukrainian citizens from Odessa, Kiev, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Nikolayev.
@@dumitrupogolsa7769 Romania's population is gowing down mainly because the fertility rate is too low, at 1.6 to 1.8 per women when it should be 2.1 to maintain the population. Less and less romanians leave the country because the standard of living in Romania is already as high as in Portuagal and just slightly lower than Spain and Italy. In 2-3 years Romania will be richer per capita than Spain and in around 5 years richer than Italy.
@@BurningFlame1999 Better compare Romania to Poland than Portugal or Spain. Romanian still go there, at the "Sea of Plastic" near Almeria, to work in inhuman conditions, just like moroccans, under the hot spanish sun. The romanians who live better than spaniards are called deputies and senators. As a Romanian living in Piatra Neamt, I have an appartment and a terrain here, but to build my own house and have my appartment just for rent I would be forced to work abroad again, so at one moment of my life I even thought about leaving completely Romania. My friends did it, they are now Irish, Italian, etc., because Romania is such a hole full of gipsies and stuff. Romania is not the top 1 turistic destination for any country in the world, despite having a fairy tale landscape. All of these problems come from red tape, corruption and just romanian stupidity, after all. I am also romanian, but I am not a proud one like you, fuck that unnecessary pride, life is too short to back this nationalism shit.
Rebuilding Moldova according to EU standards would be hugely expensive. Would Romania in that case expect the EU to foot the bill for that?
R. Moldova is very small; there is no way EU sees it as ”very expensive”.
Hello Croatian is NOT a dialect of Serbia STOP spreading misinformation
Of course not, pretty much much the same language with different alphabets and some different words, but neither the serbs nor the croatians can pretend that they "own" it. Decades ago, the name used to be "serbo-croatian". (quote from Radio Free Europe and Voice of America before the fall of the iron curtain > "The following broadcast is in serbo-croatian")
Probably not. I've seen no Moldovan poll to show indicate majority support for unification. However, this war will likely result in the end of Transnistria as an quasi-independent statelet. Ukraine could probably easily move into the region, capture 2000 Russian troops, and seize the ammunition depots relatively easily. More likely, Russian money will dry up and Transnistria will be forced to join the 21st century.
Hey guys if I can ask what are Romanians opinions on this? My barber is Romanian and i delved into this topic with him. I was surprised that he said he would have no interest in a unification. Dude was very young and I was surprised because from what I’ve read on the internet I would’ve expected him to be for it.
Many Romanians nowadays are wary. They would rather have the Republic of Moldova enter the EU and unite like this. Romania has made tremendous efforts in the last 30 years to overcome its poverty and develop, and people are afraid that our economy would not be able to sustain R. Of Moldova too, plus the fact that they are still voting communists there. It might drive us over the edge, economically and politically. We are also very pro-West and find the pro-Russian opinion of part of Moldova's population disquieting, to put it mildly. If the majority of Moldovans would strongly want to unite, Romanians might overcame their misgivings, but many Romanians consider that the Moldovans try to play at both ends for their benefit. Stories about Moldovan students studying here on a Romanian scholarship and then complaining about us or speaking Russian among themselves so other students cannot understand do not help the general opinion.
What the person above me said its true. Generally around 70% of Romanians support blindly the union, me included, while some 30% are wary of it. These are numbers from polls I've seen but also from personal experience. It is no wonder that people have different opinions. An immigrant as your barber is more expected to have this opinion since he must've perceived poor level in Romania. It is normal that he thinks it'd go lower if Moldova united. In my opinion that's true but it would be temporary
I m weary because of the fact the Republic of Moldova has Russian speakers enclaves on their territory, 2 of them and one of them, Transnistria, has russian troops in it. We all saw how Russia uses te Russian speaking population and you can see it in what happend to Ukraine. I personally would be for it if Moldova somehow resolved the issues of the russian enclaves but I do not see a solution in the near future. On the other hand I hope for them to enter the EU and NATO. If they enter the EU and later when both Romania and Moldova would be in the Schengen space (even if it s a further away future), the fact that a boarder exists wouldn t really matter anymore. I feel Romania should do more for Moldova. Romania does a lot in the sence of financial support and certain benefits for Moldovan students and citizens in general but I wish we would have done more. Our president was way too silent when they were in the crisis a few months ago and now the fact that Poland gave them more military than us I consider a shame on Romania. What would have Poland have done if they had a sister nation like Romania has? I dare say much more. My country is beautiful but it s lead by people too confortable to take stance and build soft power...
the polls in Romania shows that 80% of Romanians want to reunite with RMoldova
Nah, sorry guys, I'm also Romanian & from what I've seen in the recent polls, unionist sentiment has dropped a lot in Romania... like, under 50%. It's a shame, I'm still pro unification. However, we can't say 70-80% anymore. I think it was 33%.
By dialects do you mean the other Balkan romance languages? They are too far from the Danube. Regional dialects are closer to each other than those found in the UK
I see some mistakes and a lot of important things that were omitted.
please name them, bring constructive arguments not just judgment...
@@MrDoggysmut ok..
Here are some mistakes I found:
- there are some pronunciation mistakes, like the way he pronounced Găgăuzia, or Ceaușescu, but I don't care much about those kinds of mistakes. He is not Romanian, so I don't have the expectation that he should pronounce Romanian names perfectly.
- at 0:10 he says that the idea of a 'greater Romania' began amidst the chaos of the first world war, but the idea started long before that. People were talking about that long before Romania was even a country. The first world war was just the first time is truly seemed doable.
- the map of Greater Romania that they keep showing is wrong. Northern Bucovina is like two times bigger on the map than it was in real life and also, Transnistria was not a part of Greater Romania.
- at 1:19 he says 'all speakers of Romanian and its dialects'. If we are to consider Moldovan a dialect of Romanian, then England also has tens of English dialects.
And there are some important things that were left out of the video. Those things are often ignored by the Russian backed politicians:
- he doesn't talk about the fact that Romania formed when Moldavia and Wallachia, two Romanian countries united. And that the main figures who helped this happen, as well as the first rulers of Romania, were Moldavians.
- he doesn't talk about the Russian annexation of Bessarabia from Moldova and the russification policy of the Russian Empire or the cultural genocide Russia did in Bessarabia.
- he doesn't talk about how Bessarabia joined Romania. He just says that Romania grabbed it during the Russian civil war. But actually Moldova declared independence from Russia and Romania respected its decision, treating Moldova as an equal. Later Moldovans voted to 'forever' unite with Romania and representatives of all the ethnic minorities from Bessarabia were invited to vote, there were even Transnistrian representatives.
- he says that we don't know if the Moldovan identity was created by the Soviets, all while omitting the artificial words added to the language, or the fact that saying that you are Romanian could mean a one way ticket to the gulag. And during the Soviet period many personalities from the part of Moldavia that was still in Romanian were promoted in Moldova as part of the 'moldovan' culture because they didn't have their own heroes on which to build the Moldovan culture. That how people like Stephen the great, who said that Moldovans are Romanians, or writers like Mihai Eminescu, who said multiple times that the was a Romanian and who talked about how he wants Bessarabia to join Romania, became Moldovan heroes and the thing they said about Romanians were not mentioned.
- he doesn't talk about the 90's. After Moldova gained independence, the people that came to power wanted to unite with Romania, while the people that had the power in Romania were pro-russian ex-communists. Moldovan artists who openly talk about the union and said that they are Romanian died in car 'accidents'.
- he doesn't talk about the pro-russian politicians and parties, which are founded and controlled by Russia. They are the ones that promote the identity created by the Soviets and say that they don't speak Romanian, but Moldovan. They are the ones who changed the national anthem of Moldova (it used to be the same anthem that Romania has) and wanted to change the flag too. They controll most of the media and give poor people money to protes against the pro-EU rulers. They are the main reason Moldova did not unite with Romania.
@@MrDoggysmutoh, and he should have talked about the constant misinformation in Transnistria and their disregard of basic human rights
I don't have to be from Moldova to know that Wallachia Transylvania Moldova are 3 Romanian principalities Moldova it should be integrated where it belongs in Greater Romania. Period And for the envious Internet users who missed history class, I warmly recommend you to read another book a little culture doesn't hurt the brain 😊 Peace
Moldova and Ukraine will not enter the EU any time soon. Even if by some miracle this happens, it is not equivalent to o a reunification. I am Romanian and I do not consider myself united with Hungary and Bulgaria, for example. You also left out the significantly aspect of denationalization implemented by the Ukrainians in the areas inhabited by Romanians. So, when the accesion to the EU will happen (in my opinion, that will never develop) there will not be any Romanians left in those lands.
Not to mention along with Moldova we should also receive Northern Bucovina, Bugeac and the Snake Island, since they've always been ours, unlike what Zdrelensky claims that we invaded and took them by force in 1918
@@EagleEye517ok than Transylvania is Hungarian
@@mxbyzantine Said no one ever
@@EagleEye517 If Transylvania is Romanian, than North Bucovina is Ukrainian
@@mxbyzantine Whatevz you say
Thank you.
Moldova has a new supplier,Romania. We help our brother with gas,oil and money.