Why Is Moldova Not a Part of Romania?
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In this video we discuss why Moldova isn't a part of Romania, and its history as an independent country and kingdom. We talk about its Ottoman and Soviet past and its present within 2022.
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A better question is: Why is Japan not a part of Serbia ?
Srbija do Tokija
It was because they surrendered to the Americans to avoid the wrath of their other great enemy, Yugoslavia
Hokkaido je Srbija ?
its kinda insane how nobody is talking about the fact that Japan is literally a part of Moldova
Cuz Japan is makaing moves to be part of V4
Ah yes, Moldova. Eurovision's Golden Underappreciated Child.
Ironically, at the 2022 edition of Eurovision Moldova presented a song with a strong unionist message.
@@catalinuss which was ironically sung by ethnic Russians
@@Edv7S 4 of the current 6 members of the band are ethnic Romanian/Moldavians. Of the remaining 2, one is of mixed origin (band leader, Roman Iagupov: Romanian/Moldavian mother, Russian father), the other one (Sveatoslav Starus) probably Russian.
Their music is hugely influenced by the Romanian/Moldavian folklore and they are enormously popular in Romania.
@@catalinuss yeah i meant the russian ones, i know that they had Romanians in there as well. I really liked the song because the music was good and i strongly support the message
@@catalinuss hello, can you tell me, what was the unionist message of their song ?
The "funny" thing about the Transdnistrian war was that there are only 2 bridges that lead there from Moldova, one in the North another in the south, so the whole thing was basically about control of both of those locations, kind of like tower defense.
That and the city of Tighina
Yupp, I used to cross one of them every summer (before 2021) and see tons of graves on the streets, but as a child I only noticed the Fortress of Bender and was like “look, a castle!”
just spam out bridges?
*Transnistrian
Why not just cut the bridges if you're Transnistria? Or cheekly deploy light akinçi cavalry behind the line
Just to clarify , moldovan language doesn't exist , in Moldova we learn romanian language, speak romanian with a different accent and sometimes use russian words, because of the influence (russification) . "Moldovan" was just a concept by the Russians, to dictance us from Romania , but it was really just romanian language with cyrillic alphabet (like most slavic nations use). (And yea, i'm from Moldova)
And also we are learning in school Romanian History
But Moldovan has a few distinct sounds Standard Romanian does not have (/c/, /ɟ/, /ɲ/, /ç/, /ʝ/). Plus it's got some more Slavic vocabulary.
@@sobertowelie3267 It’s still Romanian, because romanian language has also slavic influences (around 11%)
@@sobertowelie3267 it's not part of the language, it's the accent, the language is exactly the same as Romanian. And when we learn Romanian(reciting poems, texts) we don't speak with a Moldovian accent but with a Romanian one. We use our accent for casual every day speak and Romanian for TV, meetings with foreigners etc.
@@sobertowelie3267 you realize the romanians living in the Moldova region of Romania, literally speak using the same sounds you mention? The exact same accent. I live in that region. The only difference is that people from the republic of Moldova use more russian words than the people from my region. Its still the exact same language which is romanian.
"Both nations spoke more or less the same Language" - more like both nations speak exactly the same language.
There is a lot of Russian spoken in Moldova. That would make sense.
@@florinlaurentium7523 sure thing, given the USSR past, but we're not talking about Russian here. The official language in Moldova, as well as the native language of the vast majority of the population, is Romanian. Although some like to call it Moldavian, that language is literally identical to Romanian.
@@jonsnow7092 It is not the same, the language has a lot of Russian influence and its writing is in Cyrillic.
What the hell are you talking about, we don't write in Cyrillic @@damianateiro
Yep, the same language, the only differences are the accent and the use of Russian words and slang
That's why the lesson in school is called "Romanian literature" and not "Moldovan literature"
Also Basarabia was bigger, in the Cold War the soviets took Northern Bucovina and Buceag/Budjak and give it to Ukraine and that's why Republic of Moldova is landlocked
To be fair that Region had tons of Ukrainians
Russian Empire census 1897:
Аккерманский уезд(most of Budjak)
Mother language:
26,29 % Ukrainian
21,32 % Bulgarian
16,38 % Romanian
16,36 % German.
@@oldslib and how many Germans, Romanians and Bulgarians are still there today? From 2000 years, 200 years off under Tsarist Empire occupation and 50 years under Soviet Union occupation, good results I would say.
@@eedragonr6293 almost all Germans left Bessarabia after Molotov-Ribbentrop pact .
Ukrainian census 2001. Budjak: Ukrainians 248 000 (40.2 %),
Bulgarians 129 000 (20.9 %),
Moldovanians 78 300 (12.7 %).
So still a lot.
@@oldslibdo we have any census for Romanian Budjac in the interwar period after 1919?
Not even Moldovan but I fucking love this, good job mate. I apriciate your hard work in finding all this information, keep going!
As a Moldovan, I love Romania and wish we were united 🇲🇩❤️🇷🇴
We ❤ u too 🎉
As in half a Romanian i would wish so see Romania finnaly united again would be a bless.
ti-as da like, dar ai 69 si e bine asa
We will soon! My brother the day will come Russians will have to let Moldova go and the Motherland, Romania will welcome you with open arms!
🇷🇴❤🇲🇩
Hai să dăm mână cu mână, cei cu inimă Româna!
Să-nvârtim hora frației,pe pământul României.
Facem brat
Unioniști naziști
Our favourite Serb: Why is Moldova not part of Romania ?
*MARSHAL ANTONESCU WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
As a fellow Romanian , I just want my brothers from Moldova to know that we will always be here and support you , and when you want us to reunify , we will always accept .
Long live Greater Romania !🇷🇴❤🇲🇩
@Eminem nah, moldova is romanian
@Eminem kremlin bot 5€ per comment
@@9_9876 He wishes it was €5 and not 0.5c a comment
@Dmitry Vladimirovich 🇷🇺 "Z"V" How so? Explain. I want to see if you have a good argument or you are just trolling
Hear, hear!!!
Well as a Brazilian who study Romania history i ask this question every time when talking about the 3 kingdoms
I'm romanian and I believe the absolute peak of romanian history was when 2 principalities were told they could elect their own leaders, and the romanians went like "There's nothing in this document about those 2 leaders being the same person though.... hmmmmmmm *mmmmm* "
At their best romanians are great trolls.
Damn, did you spin a globe and landed on Romania?
@@beyond6storm you do know Maia Sandu has romanian citizenship right? we could elect her the to be the president and then name the same prime minister in RO and Md. we could pull the same Cuza shit again
@@R3L4X97 adica daaaa, dar nu cred ca o sa le pice bine la efectiv restul planetei acuma
@@gun8737 când ne-a oprit asta vreodată
Personally, I'd like to see this video explain the situation within the country in terms of language, geopolitics and some internal affairs, but as a Moldovan I can totally forgive this because I'm already glad that someone mentioned this country, which is inconspicuous against the background of other European states.
P. S.
I still appreciated the effort you put into this video. ❤️
Love your country 💞 Chisinau is my favourite city not in Ukraine. I love how it has everything thats positive with capitals, like interesting stores, restaurants, buildings, airport, maintenance, but not incredible amount of people like Bucharest and Kyiv
Hello, I’m Moldovan too :D (although I spent most of my time in Moldova in Transnistria)
@@paulaedwards8937 Hows life in transnistria? Im very qurious because in the last (roughly 3-2 years ago) time I've heard about that "country" in the hungarian news it was about how poor it is and why they want to join to russia. So whats the life like in transnistria?
@@anuszbizsergetokommentek2171 everyone has their opinion, some like it, some are neutral, some want to leave, but I like Transnistria since I feel comfortable in this kind of atmosphere, we have our own president, currency etc, but there isn't much communism, all that's left is posters and soviet styled buildings and Lenin statues. right now, I'm worried for the part of my family that lives there, they want to become Russian, but it's not safe there, no 9th May parade because of "high risk of terrorist attacks", there are groups that try to provocate tension in the country to drag it towards war. despite that, there are A LOT of ukainians there. it's not a real country in some points of view, but I care about it a lot. have a nice day, sorry if I added unnecessary things.
@@paulaedwards8937 As a Moldovan i've never been to Transnistria and i think the majority of the population has no idea what's life there and so on. There's just propaganda everywhere meant to create conflict and fear between us.
Me: please not Romania or Ukraine
Me when I was born: Doctor where am I?
Doctor: Moldova
remove ukraine and the joke would be funnier
@@AdrianRO1918 why? it's funny as it is
@@makavelisoft doesnt really make sense since moldova barely has any culture relation with ukraine
@@AdrianRO1918 no it bc Ukraine and moldova were in the ussr so that mean they have almost the same style of city etc and in moldova we eat borscht
@@Moldovanhoodclips romania was commie too and has the same architecture, we also drink borș..
Questions We All Ask Ourselves:
Is there an afterlife?
What is the meaning of life?
Why does Moldova exist?
Moldovans are Romanians stolen By Russians,
Half of Moldovans have Already Romanian citizenship, the other half is already in Romania,
their President Maia sandu has Romanian Citizenship. The language spoken in Moldova is Ufficially Romanian,
Their Flag was Chosen by the Current Romanian Patriarch Daniel, They had our same Anthem For A While. They are Romanians.
1 maybe
2 whatever you give it
3 bc romania can't have everything .
Moldova and Romania are like, England and America. They developed independently, nobody has a problem with that and we are good friends. Also, Ukraine and Russia, Hungary and Transylvania developed independently, but some people still have a problem with that
One funny detail about the Transnistrian war is that apparently during nights the fighters from both sides would join together in drunken partying.
Sounds fake ngl
@@9_9876 from my experience from talking to moldovans and transnistrians - sounds likely. They really don't give a shit
That war was useless ngl we could’ve just kept living peacefully
@@9_9876 knowing russians and moldovans it shouldn't sound fake to anyone
:)))))
Pentru fratii si surorile din Moldova, va iubim pe toti , indiferent ce vreti si cu cine vreti sa fie Moldova ! E tara voastra, voi decideti cum este mai bine pentru Moldoveni. Pace si prosperitate pentru Republica Moldova !
Pup la fel
Literally the most respectful Romanian ❤️❤️
Putin cam tarziu,dar a adevarat!
iubire la toti 💜
scoate steagul al ucronazilor si mai vorbim.
love to my Moldovan Brother's from a Romanian
Thank you brother
@@Alex-pq1bh your welcome
As a Moldovan i can say im waiting for the unification with the motherland every day
Motherland= Romania
Motherland = south africa*
Eu la fel ! ❤
I'm not
im not lol
I'm from Moldova and we are basically just romanians with a little bit of russian influence.
Average propaganda moment.
@@Antrplg what do you mean ?
@@gabrielc6252 Moldovanian and Romanian are both different nations. Moldovan propaganda says that we are romanian and we should unite with Romania.
Hitler scent moment.
@@Antrplg agree
@gabrielc6252 look at the pfp and username of op
We in Bulgaria and in the rest of the world think that Moldovans are just Romanians and should be united with them! 🇧🇬❤️🇷🇴🇲🇩
Yes! Thank you! 🇧🇬❤🇷🇴 But half of them don't want the unification, so i would rather them being independent than make them feel oppressed by us.
@@_JOJ_ Well I think most who don't want unification are russians and ukrainians in moldova, most romanian moldovans will definitely wish to unite into one, at least I hope, I know many moldovan romanians still don't see themselves romanian, but hey, hope that to change soon!
And in Romania we would support a union between Bulgaria and Macedonia.
@@yumbam5546 Thx so much! 🇧🇬❤️🇷🇴
@Moldovan Naționalist Um, I do care about them, but unfortunately they are a small minority already (15 000-20 000 people), it used to be bigger, but we don't have pretensions and claims of that land anymore...
Moldovans are Romanians stolen By Russians,
Half of Moldovans have Already Romanian citizenship, the other half is already in Romania,
their President Maia sandu has Romanian Citizenship. The language spoken in Moldova is Ufficially Romanian,
Their Flag was Chosen by the Current Romanian Patriarch Daniel, They had our same Anthem For A While. They are Romanians.
I wouldnt say that exactly because many persons were actually communists and embraced the ideology. If it were so simple, unification should have happened with the USSR’s fall. Moldova historically was never always united with romania and this distinct identity allowed moldova to be easily dissolved into the USSR. Not to mention them having an existing slavic population historically too.
@@h0lynut
>Moldova was never always united with Romania historically
mf what? You need to learn some history and not whatever Ivan is shoving down your throat
@@h0lynut They are Romanians none the less . All the facts i described are true and you can search them all
@@h0lynut that "existing" slavik population was artificcialy put by Soviets by deporting 300k Romanians in Siberia. Just like they did with Poland. You are not Romanian you dont know neither you care so dont talk
@@h0lynut i bet you dont even know the true Moldovan Capital as long as the Majority of Moldovans are in Romania and also that already 50% of all "Moldovan citizens" have already Romanian citizenship.
Glad that you made a video about our brothers and sisters:)
Until they stab you in the back for their Russian master
We are not your brothers
@@kotleta3066 pff go drink that pig swill you call wine and wait for papa putin to come.
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@@kotleta3066 tu sa te duci înapoi in Siberia ocupantule!
I have to say that thanks to Russia that part that was against union with Romania decreased a lot, because they see Romania as their help
Also important is that about everyone from Moldova can apply for romanian citizenship
which we did
You should talk about moldova when you are moldavian and not from another country because you can't just say something from what you've seen on a yt video without knowing its true.
I'm moldovan and support the union with Romania 🇷🇴 💙💛❤
I'm moldovan and i support independent moldova
@@HOCKN5734 nope, you're just a ruzzian plant / troll. GFY. spamming bot POS.
@@HOCKN5734Bravo
There's no point in the unification
@@frost_spirit3314 there's no point in or to ruzzia
as a moldovan myself i always ask the same question
you guys have internet?
@@westnyn nah i am stealing it from the romanians we dont even have a basic water system here
@@Sheftyy you guys are just as bad as the romanians
pfp explains it
Republic of Moldova is not the medieval Moldova. The medieval Moldova united with Wallachia and formed Romania.
The Republic of Moldova of today begins in 1924, with the formation of RASSM (Transnistria).
Yeah,that's a common misconception, Bessarabia was lost in 1812,and after that ,the historical Moldova made some effort to unite with Wallachia,which happened in 1859.
It should also be noted that the both the political class and the population in Moldova were way more mobilized and active in their efforts for unification than those in Muntenia. Considering the historical context, it's almost insulting to consider the Republic of Moldova the succesor of the principality that fought the hardest for unification.
Found the Romanian
@@B727X how dare the r*manian say historicaly accurate facts
@@B727X yeah no shyt
The actual reason for Moldova's independence ( I'm Moldovan btw ): Russia
Long live Greater Romania !
adevarat frate!
Nice Eren Yeager pfp
Atât! Papagalu ăsta sârb vorbeşte la băşcălie mi se pare :)
It's not greater Romania. Romania is lesser Moldova!!!! I fucking love Moldova and being a patriot to Moldova and Moldovan nationality
@@neki134 Moldovan nationality is a soviet invention.
"Why Is Moldova Not a Part of Romania?" - Because Russia 😀
Fun Fact: When the "Transnistrian" war was going on a bunch of Romanian Soldiers and Officers were given paid leave and went on a short vacation in neighbouring Moldova for recreational purposes and wine tasting😉
Average romanians, they did not help Moldova against the separatists but they expect moldavian land now lmao
Fun fact:A lot of Ukrainian soldiers also _volunteered_ to fight alongside the Russians.
@@kotleta3066 We expect the truth not land.
@@kotleta3066 uhm do i need to remind you why romania went to war in 1941?
@@kotleta3066 tell me you're russian without telling me you're russian...
One word answer: Russia. That's why.
I'm moldovan and wanted to be reunited with romenia 🇷🇴 with my brothers 💙💛❤
Dacă reușiți să-i dați cumva și cândva afară pe agenții Moscovei ( ȘOR + acoliții lor ), poate se va întampla. Ar fi frumos să ne reunim teritoriul de mult fracturat. Problema actuală, e că narativul drept e șantajat de AURolacii din România... Avem nevoie de unul nou, centrist și balansat. Sper ca pe viitor să existe mai mult suport și înțelegere pentru situația Moldovenească. Eu ca Român, voi continua să clădesc legături cu frații noștrii de peste Prut. Până acum am avut 3 pațani din R. Moldova : Eduard, Dima și Anastasia ! Sănatate și noroc împotriva barbarilor invadatori ! ✌💪
@@DacianRider Jos Maia Sandu
@@HOCKN5734 jos m-ta. kkt cu ochi sovietic ! mars la moscova unde apartii ! nu mai polua pamanturile acestea cu infectia ta putrezita.
@@HOCKN5734 jos cu tumorile amplasate in transnistria si jos cu Putin ! 👹🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
@@HOCKN5734sus*
i am Romanian and i love my Moldovan brothers
Romania and Moldova are basically blood brothers. We help each other, we argue sometimes, but deep down we respect each other
We're not even brothers, we're basically clones
@@hriscubogdan2292 genetics says other wise
@@varatic644 Genetically, nobody is identic. I know that. But Romania and Moldova are exactly like North Korea and South Korea, or like East Germany and West Germany.
That's what I'm saying.
@@hriscubogdan2292 i think it is more like austrians and bavarians. not the same but veeeery similar.
east and west germans is a discussion you do not want to get into
@@Moorhuehnchen Why not? I mean Austrians and Germans are pretty much the same people, ethnically speaking. So why would it be any different for East and West Germans?
As a moldovan i don't even know why we exist
Good one.
I don't know either, but at least you can eliminate any border controls and become a tax haven for Romanians. I'm just saying.
Just to suffer :)))
@Anhedon basarabia was took from romania by the russians
I mean I wish we didn't :(
romanians after this video
why hungary isnt a part of mongolia
Lmao, i laughed so hard my tears done wet my t-shirt
That's actually a good question
:))))))) true
What do you mean? Hungary ist a part of Mongolistan
The Republic of Moldova is literally just an appendix of original Moldova which was cut by Russia. All the important historial figures, monuments, churches, monasteries etc are in the "Romanian" Moldova. It has literally no purpose to exist as an independent country.
Word, without Romania, republic of Moldova has no history of it's own!!! Except in the period of Russian occupation. But I don't see how that is a history you can be proud of.
@@andreidiaconu8530 yeah no
@@doj3211 yeah no, what?
Yep, that's why it'll be split with Russia soon
@@mytiliss682 no splitting. Just all romanian. What else can you take from a place the size of belgium?
As a Moldovan I am thrilled to see a video about Moldova. Very good video with a lot of research put into it.
I am moldovan and i think about this every day
A short documentary:
In the 1300s, Moldovia was created.
It become a vasal state for the Ottoman Empire for a long time.
In 1600s, Michael the Brave united Transilvania, Wallachia and Moldovia. But in 1601 the union was ruined.
Again, it become a vasal state for a lot of empires.
In 1812, Russian anexed Basarabia from Moldovia. In 1859, Wallachia and Moldovia were united into one single nation: Romania.
WW1 ended, and Kingdom of Romania was created.
In 1940's, USSR taked Basarabia from Romania, becoming an ussr state (Moldova not Romania)
After the colaspe of the Soviet Union, Moldova was free and wanted to be united with Romania but Romania had some problems with anti-comunists and Transnistria was independent from Moldova, but it was not recognized by so many countries. So, the union had never taked place.
Don't forget bukovina, where everything started
You forgot Poland
@@H0RNY_DR4G0N rightfully so
You forgot to mention that Romanians from Maramures founded Moldova
i don't really understand why they couldn't unite in 1990
The concept of a "moldovan language" is a 100% russian creation.
The people of Moldova, Valachia and Transylvania that spoke romanian all called themselves romanians (rumani, romei, romani, rîm), this is attested as far back as the 15th century by foreign travellers from Italy, which found it weird that we called ourselves "romans" in their language, and they found it also surprising that we spoke a "broken italian" language. Romanian is the ethnonym, "moldovan" is a regional descriptor, just like banatean, ardelean, oltean, muntean, etc. But people identify primarily by their language as far back as the medieval era.
Dating as far as back as 1812's annexation by the Russian Empire, the eastern part of Moldova was renamed to Bassarabia by the russians (out of a confusion on their part) in a few years several massive deportations of romanians to Siberia would occur and total ban of the romanian language (1830-1840's) with russian being imposed by the Empire.
Later, after strong russification and colonization of several other ethnicities, the Russian Empire would internally fall to the Bolshevic Revolution in 1917 and during this coup, Basarabia broke away from the russian state and decided to declare independence, followed by an immediate decision to re-unite with the now formed Kingdom of Romania in 1918, a union that was legalized in 1919.
In 1940, the now USSR decided to invade Basarabia and annex it, giving the romanian troops an ultimatum to leave, since our military was completely shit, we gave up Basarabia to them :(, a decision that still haunts us and Basarabia to this day, a decision that was made during a power vacuum as Romania was going through Hell during the war. Also, we switched sides during WWII, like many other countries, and during our alliance with USSR, the russians kept raping and pillaging Moldova, up until the war's end in 1945 Moldova was still being ravaged by our "allies" the russians, this is why people in Moldova especially will NEVER trust Russia, and should never.
And thus, Basarabia was once again annexed by the russians who started the russifications and deportations again, together with killings of what they considered "capitalist imperialist pigs" etc. In the 1950's they started mass deporations to Siberia again, colonizations with russians and held several councils, attempting to ban the romanian language again, but finally decicing to allow the people of Basarabia to speak their native language but renaming it to "moldovan", however russian was considered the first official language. They also forced the population to adopt the russian kyrillic alphabet again (Romania actually switched from kyrillic to latin alphabet in 1848-ish when deciding to re-affirm our latin identity, we inherited the kyrillic script direct from the Bulgarians in medieval times, in case anyone is curious).
And this is why Basarabia or the now Republic of Moldova is separated from us, because they were annexed twice. Basarabia's desire for Independence is actually a desire to be independent of Russia, their natural desire (if you actually ask educated moldovans) is to unite with Romania, even if most people in Moldova maybe don't think of this daily.
I'm sure if the spirits were high and a dual refferendum would take place, both Romania and Moldova would re-affirm their historical wish to re-unite, as the Union of romanian-speaking lands is the single most important driving force behind our national identity as far back forever.
To Romanians everywhere, in Valachia, Transylvania and Moldova on both banks of the Prut river, Union is all that matters in our history, we just wanted to have our own country for people who speak romanian, and we fought very hard to unite Valachia, (western)Moldova, break away from the Ottomans, and finally unite Transylvania with Romania and liberate it from the hungarian oppresion of a majority-romanian speaking peasant population for centuries......
The last piece of our puzzle is to RE-unite with (eastern)Moldova, this is not an annexation, we will never do it by force, we will do it by the people's will, the Romanian People's will.
You explained it very well, respect.
Now that's a well described peace of history! And also whatever people may say about the past, it's enough to just analize the present day Romania and Moldova to just realize: the people have similar genetics, same language, tradition, religion, and so on.
Moldova, a Romanian speaking country I can love without strings attached.
Mongolia, a Hungarian speaking country I can love without strings attached.
@@eddysw8549 turkmenistan maybe
Such as you loved Romanian speaking Transylvania?:)
@@g0blin11 I did and I'd love that again. Transylvania has been typically Romanian in terms of mostly spoken language for centuries, there's no problem with that. But I don't think it will be a country any time soon.
@@eddysw8549 They speak Mongolian there. Besides, we came from far but not that far. Don't humiliate yourself in front of 2.6 billion UA-cam users :D
Much love from Israel to Moldova and Romania 🇮🇱🇷🇴🇲🇩
thank you❤
Thank you big nosed tribe 🫶🏻
@@ViK45HAayo?
@@effy7722 yo
@@ViK45HAwhat
As a Romanian i ask myself the same question
Haven't met a Moldovan that denies his Romanian past, but, I have met "Moldovans" that are of ruzzian descendents that claim that Moldova never had anything to do with Romania. Despite history of Moldova and Romania being one country until it got split.
How should a moldovan denies romanian past? Moldova is the biggest melting pot of cultures and ethnicities in europe beating the ex jugo states. The identity revolves around being not romanian enough to feel romanian.
Bukovina was the area moldova got founded on and got split, devided and ethnically cleansed several times by all invaders.
really slick editing at 4:49, very nice!
Allow me to add something.
Not the whole Moldova is Basarabia. Originally it had 3 parts. The upper country (north), The lower Country (Middle) and Basarabia (the opening to the sea). Later, the names changed a little, the north became Bucovina, the middle and the Romanian part today is just Moldova and the east, today the Republic of Moldova (which no longer has that region formerly called Basarabia or today Bugeak) is Basarabia.
After Russia annexed Basarabia from the rest of Moldova, it still maintained autonomy in the Ottoman empire.
no. It was The upper country, the middle country and the lower country, bessarabia wasn't a thing until 1812
Moldovans Language doesnt exist bro, like for real, its not an insult. Thats officially Romanian, FOR REAL
Moldavians are NOT romanians. Moldova is 550 years older than Romania. I have read the history of Moldova, with simple research anyone with a brain, will notice that Romania was first a province in north turkey before 1800, as you can see here an official map made by historian Mathew Carey. There was no Romania in Wallachia, Moldova, or Transylvania. Ottomans have invaded Wallachia and occupied it for more than 400 years. Romanians immigrated, stole the part of Moldavian Land and the Moldavian language, and called it "Romanian" language and rominian state only after 1881 It is MOLDAVIAN language, It is called MOLDAVIAN since the 14th century for your knowledge. Rominians share the MOLDAVIAN language since 1881 because Rominia annexed only part of a Moldovan territory with Moldavian language, and Valahia with valahian language, where Rominia and rominian language were born by Russia in 1873 -1881. Actually, the Republic of Moldova is another part of MOLDAVIA, an independent country with the MOLDAVIAN language. Go to school and study more MOLDAVIAN Constitution, art.13, and legislation, my dear ...
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf Romanians ARE a UNION BETWEEN MOLDOVANS AND VALACHIANS AND TRANSYLVANIANS
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf dont talk bs with me
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf You Russian Propagandist Troll
@@raduromanesti6408
Cantemir scrie ca valahii secole la rând s-au folosit de alfabetul si ortografia limbii moldave "lingua moldavorum", "lingua MOLDAVICA", pe care el o descrie la cererea savanților Europei de la Academia din Berlin in tratatul "Descriptio Moldaviae" - la 1714, când încă nici îngerii din cer nu știau ca peste 164 de ani va apare pe harta un stat cu numele straniu - nu de Dacia, dar de "Rominia". Nici pomina in "Descriptio Moldaviae" de Rominia, romini si limba romina.
În 1937 N.Iorga încă o dată amintea romînilor: „Într-adevăr, totul este diferit între aceste două ţări ‒ Moldova şi Valahia ‒ care la început nici nu se ating”.
Literally one day after this being posted, Moldova is officially accepted as a candidate to get into the EU haha
We made it boys ;)
It will take years for them to be accepted however.
@@kingdomoftransylvania5744 it's still a good step and I heard that we filled out the questionnaire faster than any other country before. I hope our government will continue doing stuff in the same pace. We're a small country and that is another advantage that we have. It is about time to use it.
All hail the great anti poor people union
@@kingdomoftransylvania5744 Unlike Turkiye and Romania, we are trying to make reforms against corruption
Great video as always János!!! You are very good job explaining things and I have learned so much from your channel, thank you. Congratulations on reaching 100,000 subscribers, you deserve each and every one of them and 150,000 more!!!🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much János!!!❤❤❤
Oh boy the time has finally come for you to speak about my delighted place of birth, I gladly appreciate the way you explained our history and our dreaded existence, not many people even know that this country even exists or if they do, they think we speak russian but nevertheless I wanted to make a small adjustment about the whole re-unification topic, this has been regaining traction among the population especially with the whole conflict happening right across the border. This country may be one of the poorest in Europe but life here doesn't seem as bad as some say most of us are not very patriotic to say the least unlike the other people from the funny zone but we still appreciate what the little we have and cherish it regardless, most of us see ourselves as "Moldovan" a people separate from the romanians, personally I think that's stupid but hey you can hardly change 67 years of brainwashing and maybe with time people will start to realise that we're the same people. With that being said I once again thank you for sharing some information about my country and wish you best of luck
"Because they want to be"
Lol, they don't they simply have no other choice. They'd be bankrupt without foreign aid from Bucharest and EU and half of their entire population has Romanian dual-citizenship. The answer is because if they expressed willingness to unification they would risk another open war with Russia like in 1992. Transnistria is given too much importance in this video as a "breakaway state", it's not a state it's a Russian garrison with hostages.
tl;dr because Russia
No Transnistria is a state lol
@@Wiibiplay According to: Transnistria*
*=unrecognized lol
wait bro, We dont speak "More or less the same language" We DO SPEAK the same ufficial Language. ROMANIAN, its in the constitution. PLEASE dont misinformate those already misinformated childs
The video is made by a Hungarian living in Serbia so...😂
@@yumbam5546 didnt he say he is a serb?
romanians on their way to be the most annoying people on the internet when talking about Moldova
@@yumbam5546 Hes serbian
The reason can basically be summed up by saying: Russia was a bad neighbour. Moldova was basically split in two, with one half uniting with Wallachia and the other being told they are not romanian and not being allowed to join it
Also the soviet curriculum required teachers to explicitly state that moldovans were badly treated by romanians and that we'd never be neither as smart as romanians nor russians.
Ottomans never "took over Moldavia" or any Romanian Principality, never under their direct control.
Next video: why does Montenegro exist? I guess it is to Serbia like Austria is to Germany but I would be happy to see a video about it.
interesting, i've never seen that comparison before
Montenegro is catholic?
@@overdose8329 Nope, Orthodox as well.
or like Moldova to Romania, Cyprus to Greece or even North Macedonia to Bulgaria
i feel like there's enough differences between north macedonia and bulgaria to be different entities
Funny how my Romanian friend said that Moldova should unite with Romania *except* for Transnistria.
He said that strip of land should join Ukraine or Russia.
True.
*with a John Oliver voice* "Cool."
You have Romanian friends? But why?
true
Not just Moldova, but the whole of Basarabia, should reunite with it's rightful brethren in Romania. As far as the Transnistrean conflict that was Russia doing what it does best, create conflict in order to prevent Moldova from succeeding in reuniting with Romania or succeeding independently in joining the West Ave thriving. Also a good portion of the Russians in Basarabia are there because of the process of Russification, carried on by Russia from the day they tried to "save us" from the savages of the Ottoman empire. Only problem was, that once they freed us from the Ottomans, the Russians forgot to leave.
Putin wasn't in power at the time
Moldova not wanting to join Romania is like your crush not loving you back.
Next Question: Why is Macedonia not a part of Bulgaria?
Serbia
Because its not Bulgarian
They are just confused Romanians
Didn't notice quicker but congratulations on 100k subs funny serbian guy
R. Moldova was NEVER a kingdom! The Principality of Moldavia and R. Moldova are 2 different things. Romania is the direct successor of the principality and not R. Moldova, which only gained its independence in 1991 and is the direct successor of the former soviet colony SSR Moldova, built on the territory stolen from Romania in WW2.
Stollen lmao
Moldavians are NOT romanians. Moldova is 550 years older than Romania. I have read the history of Moldova, with simple research anyone with a brain, will notice that Romania was first a province in north turkey before 1800, as you can see here an official map made by historian Mathew Carey. There was no Romania in Wallachia, Moldova, or Transylvania. Ottomans have invaded Wallachia and occupied it for more than 400 years. Romanians immigrated, stole the part of Moldavian Land and the Moldavian language, and called it "Romanian" language and rominian state only after 1881 It is MOLDAVIAN language, It is called MOLDAVIAN since the 14th century for your knowledge. Rominians share the MOLDAVIAN language since 1881 because Rominia annexed only part of a Moldovan territory with Moldavian language, and Valahia with valahian language, where Rominia and rominian language were born by Russia in 1873 -1881. Actually, the Republic of Moldova is another part of MOLDAVIA, an independent country with the MOLDAVIAN language. Go to school and study more MOLDAVIAN Constitution, art.13, and legislation, my dear ...
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf stay mad clown
@@raykirushiroyshi2752
Moldavian language is not a dialect of Rominian. Rominian state and rominian language existed only since 1881. Moldavian state and Moldavian language officially existed since the middle of the 14th century. In that way, rominian language is a nickname that was given to the Moldavian language, robbery of language, history and culture, information war for the purpose to provide classical racism, cultural genocide, and the destruction of identity and statehood of the Republic of Moldova. Rominian language did not exist in history, it is like saying the Queen of Great Britain speaks the American language, and the English language does not exist anymore... Go to school and study more, dear boy...
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf ok commie,go back to you mother Russia and leave Moldova and the Romanian history alone
Best youtube channel I have found at 3am. Keep it going with the videos because they are great.
You also forgot to mention how much they were russified after and during ww2, most romanians from bessarabia and northern bukovina were deported to siberia and most never came back, that explains why right now there are more russians there than romanians, or better put russians that speak romanian. It's rightfully our land, yes, it always has been, but after the aforementioned tragedies it hurts me to say that moldova is more russian/ukrainian now (now meaning the last ~80 years, for hundreds and hundreds of years it was romanian)
Expat from bukovina here,
My family's history reaches back as far as 16th century with russians, romanians, poles, italians and austrians/bavarians(no i won't say germans as it is too broad of a term). Moldova and bukovina has been a melting pot for all who came and calling us "technically romanians" is simply not correct (not completely false either) the nazis and later the commies just fucked everything up (nazis by killing the jews and taking our wealth and the commies from deporting all counterrevolutionaries and suspected kulaks. My family just fled in time back then to austria 1946 loosing everything)
Now when i look back to the birthplace of my grandmother all is split up between 3 1/2 nations killing the culture and leaving everyone in poverty
@@Moorhuehnchen Had ww2 not happen and the commie seizure of power in Eastern Europe aswell things might have been different today. The Kingdom of Romania seemed to have a bright future despite its many issues.
not most, a sizeable population who owned land. My great grandfather avoided this by rising through the ranks of the communist party but he remained a romanian patriot
From what I read, 10 years ago support for Moldovan reunification with Romania was between 10 to 20% in different polls, and in April 2021 it was 50%. So in 10 years it became 5 times more popular to want reunification. Considering that trend, in 10 more years more than 50% would reunification.
Well, it never was 50%. Now it's around 30-40% depending on the poll, still a pretty big jump. I am against unification, however it's not the figure itself that saddens me. Many experts agree that this jump represents basically hopelessness of Moldovans when it comes to their future. It's not about language, culture or history or whatever the people in the comments section are super busy talking about. It's about poverty and vulnerability that gets more visible with the coronavirus crisis, gas prices and war against Ukraine (basically when the jump happened). I've talked to people that are for unification and it kinda matches with what the experts say. If Romania wasn't a part of Nato and EU, the figure would have been constantly at the 5-15% mark. People just see unification as a GTA cheat code IRL. Some people think that right after unification they will have Bucharest-level salaries. People are disappointed in local corrupt politicians and think that Romanian corrupt politicians will do better. So it's actually not good for both parties. For Romania it is better financially and overall to unite with prosperous and less corrupt Moldova that can do stuff on its own and not constantly rely on Bucharest for literally everything. I mean, if you are for unification at all costs, you can go on and be happy about this statistics, however...
@@dmitrievakate8320 "April 2021 In the case you were sure that salaries and pensions in the Republic of Moldova will become the same as those in Romania, would you vote for or against unification? For unification: 50.0%" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Romania
@@dmitrievakate8320as a roumanian i am against unification first Moldova doesnt give îs nothing just pooorness yeah maybe in some fields we can have a few execelence people but majority are underground we must think with the head not with the soul thts the matter
@@dmitrievakate8320 It's about poverty?! No kidding . That's the one of the goals of the union to level the disparities and cut the tides with Russia which is the main reason of poverty.
@@dmitrievakate8320 So basically you say nations should be split. It is poinless to (re)unite - that is your opinion, right?
I bet you are not native Moldovan, but descending from Russian colonists.
Moldovan, here great video 😊😊
Bravo
wait wait wait... does LiiE qualify to be a Vtuber?
Also, top notch banter in this video mate!
I love this channel because no matter who you are or where you live, we are all slandered equally.
Teaching history with memes is the most efficient way possible
As a Romanian, I really want that territory back
We will get it back.
But not the people within it
@@STDVH Moldovans are Romanians stolen By Russians,
Half of Moldovans have Already Romanian citizenship, the other half is already in Romania,
their President Maia sandu has Romanian Citizenship. The language spoken in Moldova is Ufficially Romanian,
Their Flag was Chosen by the Current Romanian Patriarch Daniel, They had our same Anthem For A While. They are Romanians.
@@raduromanesti6408 I know that the only problem is that it’s too late, they may have been Romanians but know it’s finished.
They feel Romanian when they want to get out of Moldova to get EU citizenship but after leaving Romania to other EU country they’re only Moldovian or Russian ( now it’s not seen so good so only Moldovean ) no more Romanian.
They say they’re Romanian only when there’s opportunity other than that they don’t feel shit.
Curve cu 2 fețe
fr but no the Moldovans or their government. If we get it back their government can go fuck themselves and the people can do whatever they want.
as a romanian, i am crying rn
Trust me, my friend... us the 80-90s generation have been asking this question for decades ever since we learned from schools that there is basically no difference and we are 1 and the same people. Even during middle ages, when we were politically divided into different countries and there was "no Romania" as some have orgasm saying it (cough hungarians)... our people were united in culture, language, symbols...etc and the late middle ages chroniclers attested this fact based on historic&linguistic studies published in those times. Needless to say they called themselves Romanians not Vlachs which was the term used by foreigners. Eastern Moldavia(Basarabia as we call it) which had been part of medieval Romanian province of Great Moldavia for 500 years was ripped off in 1812 by the Russian Empire and despite staying for 106 years under their rule, the could not change the feelings of most people which voted for unification in 1918 after WW1. However after Ribentrop-Molotov pact and WW2 and as a consequence of losing the war against Russia, it became a russian teritorry again under USSR this time and it's still a mistery how intense their manipulations over the Romanians from here had been performed in just 45 years that in 1990 after the fall of the soviets they voted for independence and not for reunification with Romania. Time has passed and the younger generations have started to change their views towards unifications or EU at least. However, as a consequence of the Ussr actions: depopulation of Romanians, transfer of Russian population and the manipulation described above which had an impact on the current older generations... the percentage nowadays which support unification is around 35% but I trust that it will change and we will always support our Romanian brothers from the East!! 🇷🇴🇲🇩 - One nation, one people, never forget!!
0:57 I unionically went on like a day rabbit hole of looking up throat singing videos.
My favourite Bosniak living in Serbia
After Tesla of course 😏
Wait he was from Croatia
@@unilajamuha91 Former Vlach.
Bro, the union of the Republic of Moldova with Romania is only a matter of political will, not popular. Be sure that the population of the Republic of Moldova would like to unite if they were properly informed and carried out propaganda for this purpose. Public opinion in the Republic of Moldova can be easily influenced and convinced over 50% by far if politicians really want this. But the problem is that currently Romania has very vile and corrupt politicians who pursue only personal interest and what else to steal and sell for money in the country! That's the reality, in a nutshell.
Romania has very vile and corrupt politicians? Oh.. and Moldova does not? 😆
Also, why Moldovan politicians would want to stop controlling a country to control a province?
@@joshke335 Yes, but politicians are temporary in their positions. They are not eternal leaders.
Basarabia pământ românesc 🇷🇴👍🤟🤜🤛🔵🟡🔴
@@ulanten892 russian bot
Moldova?
I know only Romanian Moldova.
- True Romanian Gigachad
Transnistria:😭😭
Italian/southern European here
Would you make a video about the differences between northern and southern Europe? (Also why tf don't northern Europeans give food to their guests?)
I have adaptively associated your voice with the face of an anime girl unironically
Moldova exists to bring us the almighty Epic Sax Guy.
All romanians and moldovans alike want union, but mr putin wont do that. Trăiască România Mare!
As a Moldovan, I love Romania 🇲🇩❤️🇷🇴
As a Romanian, i love Moldova
Mersi mult pentru toți,care susțin unirea.Thank for all which support Romania -Moldova Union🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩
La dracu toți ce susțin cotropirea 😊
6:12 Greatest Serbian joke: Kosovo is a country
That is actually one of the best vids on Moldova that I have seen in the last couple of months. Some parts were a bit cringe, however overall it is quite good. I really liked the memes and the last part. I would like to ask you, where do you find information for your vids? (If any other content creator comes across this comment please also answer this question) ❤
7:31 What a relief
Shorts answer Soviets and Russia
Good video, you should also have mentioned how Stalin deported Romanians from Moldova in an attempt to make it more Russian, just like in Ukraine. The USSR also forced Moldovans to use the Cyrillic alphabet and taught children in school how they weren't the same people as Romania. The result is the invention of the "Moldovan language", which is basically just Romanian, and the strong Russian presence in Transnistria (where Moldovan-language schools are still repressed by the local government).
morevover, since 1944-1990 there was an administrative "wall" between Romania and the Soviet Moldavia. Citizens of both countries were not allowed to communicate each other. Romanian citizens were not allowed to visit the Soviet Moldova and conversely. Exceptions was made only for first grad of relatives (parents or brothers). It was something similar with West Germany and East Germany.
3:18
If you add the old libyan flag you can form the italian flag.
Finally understand italian flag. Rich, bravery and proafrican. Yeah, true italian colors from other one color flags.
Moldovans are Romanians stolen By Russians,
Half of Moldovans have Already Romanian citizenship, the other half is already in Romania,
their President Maia sandu has Romanian Citizenship. The language spoken in Moldova is Ufficially Romanian,
Their Flag was Chosen by the Current Romanian Patriarch Daniel, They had our same Anthem For A While. They are Romanians.
@@Richard-dq6if Italian flag is three corners of Roman empire, Dacia Gaul and Libya
Next step : I visited Moldova so you didn't have to
visit what? Every historic monument we had was destroyed by soviets
We do have the Stefan cel Mare statue that is kinda cool right?
The only reason why humanity hasn't yet colonized other planets is because Romania and Moldova are separated. Please spread the word and gather support for unification if you want humanity to enter the next age! Greater Romania will pave the way for galactic exploration and colonization, you have my word on this!
Loved the video , it's so much better when you know what he's talking about! Also:
Dro ' bro ' gea
Hard but not that hard ,
The funny thing with the romanian language is its one of the easiest , theory it's written its the way its pronounced.
nu mai face pe desteptul, Dobrogea se pronunta Dobruzha in alte limbi
@@hochmeisterulrichoffrankfu8207
You know your opinion is shit when you think that basic pronunciation is " being a smartass"
Stie el ce stie. Dobruja este numele vechi.
@@ncledw Carvuna este numele medieval adevarat al Dobrogei. De la Vlahii carvunari care au stapanit-o in trecut. Dobroja este de la numele ultimului ruler Dobrotici, inainte sa fie cedata prin testament Valahiei lui Mircea. Adica Romanilor, nu Bulgarilor.
I would like to see the unification of these countries, but I think Romania will have to spend a huge amount of money to maintain this region, also what to do with the country's debts and conflict? Moldova will have to become a successful country in order to unite
Moldavians are NOT romanians. Moldova is 550 years older than Romania. I have read the history of Moldova, with simple research anyone with a brain, will notice that Romania was first a province in north turkey before 1800, as you can see here an official map made by historian Mathew Carey. There was no Romania in Wallachia, Moldova, or Transylvania. Ottomans have invaded Wallachia and occupied it for more than 400 years. Romanians immigrated, stole the part of Moldavian Land and the Moldavian language, and called it "Romanian" language and rominian state only after 1881 It is MOLDAVIAN language, It is called MOLDAVIAN since the 14th century for your knowledge. Rominians share the MOLDAVIAN language since 1881 because Rominia annexed only part of a Moldovan territory with Moldavian language, and Valahia with valahian language, where Rominia and rominian language were born by Russia in 1873 -1881. Actually, the Republic of Moldova is another part of MOLDAVIA, an independent country with the MOLDAVIAN language. Go to school and study more MOLDAVIAN Constitution, art.13, and legislation, my dear ...
@@Veaceslav-eo2gf n am mai intalniy moldoveni nationalisti... Ma rog are sens in contextu stefan cel mare... Salutari din sv
Oh yeah and master d maybe stfu? Unification could be easily funded by eu. Please abstain from 2nd grade arguments thanksinadvance
@@fool123
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@@Veaceslav-eo2gf interesant. Salutari din sv sper ca esti oke
Should've added the Flower Bridge(s), it was damn cool-- ;(
Is this video supposed to be serios? Or just a pamphlet? Excluding stereotypical stupid jokes which I understand knowing your channel, everything else seems inexact to say the least.
For starters Ottomans didn't 'took over' Moldavian Principality, they manage to make them surrender as a vasal State,which the turks only 'controlled' from a distance, Moldavian Principality was never actually occupied. They were offcourse obligated to pay tribute or else, ottomans will invade, later the turks named their rullers from Instabul (romanian or greek, known as fanariots) but that was also ever really going smooth. You didn't talk about romanian common identity between romanians and Moldovans, which moldovan chroniclers like Grigore Ureche and the ruler of Moldova Dimitrie Cantemir who wrote extensively about the history and common identity of the three countries. Another thing, when Wallachia united in 1859 with Moldova, the Moldovan Principality was already cut in half(from 1812 by the Russian empire, Basarabia + Buceak, and some parts by Austro-Hungarian empire, Bukovina), not as you represented, a whole romania + a today's moldovan territory. Also in soviet Times after russia re-stoled the territory, they did a mass deportation, extermination and they pumped a lot of different identity propaganda, which is also common knowledge. After the Transnistrian war the country didn't join Romania because... they couldn't, the russian boot was still pressing their neck, through politicians payed by the Kremlin and war-mongering ofc. Yes it's tru that most Moldovans see themselves as a separate national entity by know, but the reasons are not so simple
As a Romanian I believe it s better if we remain separated, I don t think we ll succeed in integrating 3 mil people more, including the russian-speaking Transnistrian population who would also not see a union in their interest. Regardless of history, I think we need to stay realistic and accept that the 21st century is maybe no more the time for redrawing borders.
Anyway, I wish them all the best in developing as it seems they re on the right path. Also, they re always welcome to come to Romania if that s what they wish
Reunification would also cause a huge amount of chaos economically, demographically and in many other aspects.
I'm from Moldova, I would love both to be united but that's impossible "fără a nimeri în glod".
You are braindead. Every real Romanian and Moldovan wants to unifiy. Dont cry if its too hard for you real Romanians can make it.
Ca român, îți zic sigur că ești idiot.
It's always possible to soft-unify like EU - have treaties for free movement, no import taxes, but stay independent
It's easy to integrate Moldova specially with EU funds. And we can deal with Hungarians so we won't have problem with gagauzes and moskals
Love your videos!
30 years of independence, and 30 years of Russian propaganda
I'm thinking about this question at least once every month when I can not sleep. Only Belgium makes less sense.
But it's lovely there. One day I will come back.
Belgium makes perfect sense
Great vid. Would love some Bulgaria content!
I don’t agree that Moldova is independent because it wants to. It’s the only option they are allowed to have if they want to still be a country. Russia has thretened them many times and even cut gas and electricity when they tried to get closer to Romania. A lot of regular people but also Moldavian leaders always wanted to unite. As well as many Romanians.
Well the polls don't really confirm what you're saying. The figures of public support for unification only recently jumped because of the combination of corona and gas crisis and the war against Ukraine being the last addition to poverty and lack of feeling secure. The politicians in Moldova, who support unirea, never hid it, however you should always remember they are politicians. I think it's more about the direction you know better. If you have business with Russia and you are an expert and not noticing human rights abuses, it's your direction where you can get money and political points, even if you support unirea. The same with unionist politicians. In recorded statistics 5-40% of people supported unification at different points in time (from what I remember from different poles). However, strictly unionist parties (which exist, they are not all banned) never came close to those figures. People don't trust them. And yeah, people either don't have reasons to hide their preferences when it comes to unification. Russia doesn't control us anymore and when it had a veeeeery significant influence we still had unionist parties and marches and demonstrations. And yeah, if a country wants to still be a country, it needs to be independent. I mean. Yeah. If you want to drink water it means you want to drink water.
@@dmitrievakate8320 because brain washing and vote rigging don't exist