Bessarabia
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Moldova Celebrates 18th Anniversary of Independence
On 27 august, the Republic of Moldova celebrates the 18th anniversary of its independence today. Moldova's Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Chişinău on 27 August 1991 (see DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). It reaffirmed the right of the people...
Moldova needlessly alienates neighbors
By Louis O’Neill Moldova’s new government has some major work to do to fix the relationships with Romania and Ukraine, which deteriorated under the Communists. In his poem “Mending Wall,” poet Robert Frost concludes regretfully...
Historical Palliatives for the Phantom-Limb Syndrome
By Louis O’Neill Gallons of ink have been arrayed and countless electrons rearranged with commentary over the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocols. Scholars, politicians, human-rights defenders, and historians...
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact And Slippery Slope Of Big Power Politics
By Ahto Lobjakas On August 24, 1939, the British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary (I'm quoting from memory): "Russia and Germany have signed a cooperation pact. War now inevitable. Went for a stroll.'" Waugh here unwittingly offers...
Moldova still suffers from Nazi-Soviet Pact's pernicious results
By Prof. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Ph.D., Washington, DC Tomorrow, August 23rd, the world will give passing note and a brief mention to the fact that some seventy years ago one of the most cynical and unscrupulous treaties in all of history was signed. It...
23 August: The Night Stalin And Hitler Redrew The Map Of Europe
By Robert Coalson A world slipping ever closer toward war awoke on the morning of August 24, 1939 to the shocking news that Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact. Hitler was beaming when his foreign...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Pact's Bitter Legacy Remains In Eastern Europe
By Brian Whitmore Valentins Trojans remembers the marauding bands of Red Army soldiers going from farmhouse to farmhouse in his rural Latvia, looting watches, shoes, and clothing. Harijs Ruks recalls being interrogated by a sadistic Soviet officer...
Moscow attempts to reinterpret the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
By Pavel Felgenhauer Russian Manipulation of History: "the Art of Interpretation" To mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by Russia (USSR) and Nazi Germany on August 23, 1939, the Foreign Intelligence...
Russia's Sakhalin residents want to be part of Japan
By Paul Goble Sakhalin Residents Petition to Have Their Territory Transferred to Japan A group of Sakhalin residents, after a visit to Tokyo, are not only studying Japanese but also collecting signatures on a petition asking that Moscow hand over...
