Bessarabean Nation, Is December 1st Your Holiday? (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- For those who feel they are real Bessarabeans, I think the answer would be “yes”. But what does the date of December 1st mean for those “caught” between Prut and Dniester? Is the day of December 1st Romania’s National Day or it is the Feast of All Romanians?
To find the answer for these questions it would be enough to ask a Bessarabean who went to elections and voted for the Liberal Party and one who voted for Communist Party of Moldova. We have two diametrically opposed answers that positions us where we are today… between the Prut and Dniester, on the border between Romanian and Russian influence, between EU and CIS, between “yes” and “no”, in a complete uncertainty, that looks so well to a Moldovan.
The Union that happened on December 1st, 1918 was “unleashed” by certain favorable circumstances that enabled the achievement of this “state project”, the unleashing of First World War and the dismemberment of empires that existed at those times on the map of Europe (the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which included Transylvania and the Tsarist Empire, which included Bessarabia).
Analyzing those said earlier and the current situation of Bessarabia and the mentality of those who live in it, I wonder, what kind of cataclysm or war should start to shake even a little the indifference that we live in? What should happen?
Russians who have occupied for centuries the territory of Bessarabia did not stay for nothing; they wanted to destroy Romanian people, to turn it into a Moldovan, and it seems that they could do it.
Russians were those who doubted the legitimacy of the act of unifying of Romanian Principalities into one state, the fact that did Hungary, too; they were those who transformed this natural act (in ethnic historical and moral terms) in one of occupation and oppression. And the most painful is that we have today compatriots who believe the same.
What did the “Romanians” do? They made the agrarian reform, tried to implement the territory on the territory between Prut and Dniester germs of a democratic European state. And let the Lord to be all invaders so, to bring development and prosperity and to be the same nation with you.
And now, let’s answer for ourselves, who we really are? Is the celebration of December 1st ours too? And according to your answer the country is divided into two parts, and now we are where we are… between Prut and Dniester.
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