Back to the Soviet Future? 48 Hours in Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- There are two entities within the Moldova of today, one with international legal recognition and the other without. The recognised state is the Republic of Moldova, which claims all of its territory. A breakaway state that is known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), or often in English simply as Transnistria, has claimed a sliver of its territory along the border with Ukraine since 1990. Despite not being recognised on a global level, Pridnestrovie - which has its own currency, passports, and military - certainly was real enough when I set foot within its territory for 48 hours. Join me and PMR tours across Tiraspol and Bender for a unique insight into this de facto state.
This is a must-visit place for me! I regret not going there when I visited Moldova a couple of years ago! I must plan a visit there before things change because of the geopolitical situation! Thanks for the cool video!
Interesting and nice to see Andrey again. I met him back in 2017 when I visited the PMR. I believe he is THE guy in PMR. :) Tours, accommodation, everything.
This is not a Pridnestrovian guy, apparently he just makes money here on the so-called "tourists" (fools who themselves do not know where and why they are going). A real Pridnestrovian would be very offended if he heard the word Transnistria addressed to him.
@@Pyc... Andrey mentioned almost immediately to me (including in this video!) that the name of the country is Pridestrovie. He obviously wanted to make this point abundantly clear.
Can you imagine Polish immigrants coming to the USA, bringing some army units deciding to have a Polish American People’s Republic ;)
Transnistria is not a name at all, it’s an insult to Pridnestrovians, something like a wish for war and genocide (in fact, that’s exactly what you wished for by calling Pridnestrovie that way). The hammer and sickle is not a purely communist symbol, it is simply a sign of the unity of the working people. The economy of Pridnestrovie is completely capitalist, the political system is also very different. The monument to Lenin has stood there since the 1980s. I don’t know how you wanted to drag the topic of Soviet Union into this. The person you talked to is apparently a provocateur from Moldova.
But why? Transnistria just mean over the Nister river, which is indeed the location of the "country" if looked from a Western perspective. Why is it an insult to use the English term for it? Should German people be insulted when we call their country Germany and not Deutchland?
@@RaduRadonys The Germans have no reason to be offended: both names of their country are historical and do not contain any political overtones. With Pridnestrovie the situation is completely different. "Transnistria" is not a geographical name, it's not an English term. This word originally emerged as an insult during the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian confrontation of 1989-1992. This word is a direct borrowing of the name of the occupation regime that Romania created in the territories of the USSR when it invaded here along with Hitler. Large-scale crimes, including genocide, were committed here. It was the desire to repeat these crimes that was hinted at by the use of the term "Transnistria" in relation to Pridnestrovie. Even if we discard this context (which, of course, is impossible), then as a geographical name this term is completely incorrect.
@@Pyc... Ok, that might be true, but nobody knows these details (I mean nobody from the Western world), they just know that the country is called Transnistria on Google, Wikipedia, etc and they don't intend absolutely nothing negative when they use that term. It's just a name of a country. You should be happy that people are talking about your country, not impose this unsolicited negative twist to it. Another thing is that Pridnestrovie is really hard to pronounce/remember by non-Russian speakers, while Transnistria is super easy. Don't get mad, that's how I would fell if I were a citizen there.
@@RaduRadonys Well, let's be honest: 99% of the Western world has never even heard of this region. Therefore, the word they will use when they suddenly learn something about Pridnestrovie depends entirely on the context and source of information. Of course, if they use propaganda sites like Wikipedia as a source, they won't even know that the word "Transnistria" is purely an insult and in no way a name. By the way, I talked to many native English speakers: for all of them this word sounds just as ug|y as for Russian speakers. I can't imagine why it seems simple to you.
@@RaduRadonys Would you be happy if you, your family and people were denied the right to life? This is exactly what the word "Transnistria" means. By the way, I have repeatedly communicated with native English speakers: the word "Transnisria" sounds just as uglу to them as it does to Russian speakers. I don't know why it seemed simple to you.
Dobroye utro, tovarishch. 🫡