Transnistria - Moldova's Donbass?
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Transnistria is a mostly russian speaking separatist region of Moldova, right at the border with Ukraine, which has been de facto independent since 1992 after the 4-month long Transnistrian war came to an end through a ceasefire agreement. Since then, the region has been under the control of Transnistrian forces while Russia also maintains military units here.
After 1992, very little changed about the situation in Transnistria until late February 2022, when the war in Ukraine began. With that, discussions about Transnistria became tense, especially after a series of explosions occurred in Transnistria in late April 2022. Unsurprisingly, concerns grew that the region might drag Moldova into the conflict as well, since Russia may seek to integrate it into the Russian Federation alongside what it can occupy in Ukraine.
In this video, we take a look at the history of Transnistria and Moldova, how the conflict developed and what the situation in Ukraine means for the conflict and the world.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:04 Surfshark Sponsorship/Werbung/Anuncio
3:39 History of Moldova & Transnistria
9:53 Situation after 1992
13:07 Transnistria & the Ukraine War
17:30 Outro
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Red Line Podcast Episode Transnistria - Europes Last Soviet Republic: • Transnistria - Europes...
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Sources:
Bebler, Anton (2015) “Frozen conflicts” in Europe.
Bahcheli, Tozun (2004) De facto states: the quest for sovereignty
Kostov, Chris (2020) Separatism and Regionalism in Modern Europe.
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Correction. Dragos wasn't a founder of Moldavian state. Bogdan Voevod or Bogdan 1 was. 1365 is considered a year of getting independence and creating Moldova
@@ce8042 Dragos was a vassal of the Kingdom of Hungary is debated if he was Vlach or Hungarian but it is believed he was a Vlach, and yes in Romania he is not credited as the founder of Moldavia that one being Bogdan from Cuhea (Maramures). After mongol invasion Dragon was sent by the king of Hungary to create a defensive line against the mongols over the Carpathians, by the legend say he was following while he hunt a bull that now is extinct and his loyal dog died near a river during the chase, he named that river after her as Molda, and that bull you can found it on the Moldavia coat of arms and the name come from that dog/river (Molda). After Dragos death his descendants become Magyar as their name are no longer Vlach sounding as Sas and Balc (Son and Nephew of Dragos). In Transylvania at the same time with those two was Bogdan a local ruler of Maramures, he wanted to riot against the Hungarian rule but his brother betray him and spoil the plan to the king of Hungary, who gather the army against him, because of this he gather his loyalist and cross the mountain in the future Moldavia, there he hear the local Vlach population are rioting against the 'Hungarins" rule of those descendants, and he use the unrest to overturn those two, this plan succeed and he found Principality of Moldavia soon after. The former two Sas and Balc run in Transylvania where the king of Hungary lament the betrayal of Bogdan and repay those two with his former feud or a par from them.
I would just like to thank Politics with Paint for providing this objective and educational video. I hope to see this channel grow in the future, and I think it has serious potential.
Ничего не понял но Привет английскому ютубу!!! я кстати из Молдовы
Transnistria, now that's a name I've not heard in long time.
m.czcams.com/video/4AivEQmfPpk/video.html
A long time.
You forgot to mention that the gas that the russian federation provides to the transnistria is not cheap, but it's free, and with that gas transnistria sells electricity back to moldova, 80% of which comes from that region. If russia were to cut off the gas, there will be no electricity for most of moldova. And this is the reason why moldova can't really abandon the plans of reintegration.
@@cosdache I can't blame the moldovan politicians, i can blame the ussr by doing a great job at making sure Moldova can't quit Russian sphere of influence. Just like most of the post Soviet republics.
@@cosdache for most of those decades, moldova was governed by parties like the communist party that were like: russia is a friend, lets not worry and enjoy life. it ended up with many fleeing towards romania and eu, and a diy uprising which brought to power pro eu integration parties that turned up even more corrupt and status quo.
people mostly disillusioned in politics overall, started voting back the socialist party that was formed by gone outs from communist party. more corruption and status quo, until promising pro eu and pro decency politicians started showing up and eventually gained power both presidential and parlamentary. now they're heading towards eu as much as it's possible for them under those circumstances, relaying mostly on help from their close ties to romania.
Well, Romania EU and Ukraine could provide enough electricity once integrated into the same grid.
@@Marian87 Yes, this is the fallback plan, but the catch is that most of the high value infrastructure that allows Moldova to distribute the power to the rest of the country is near the power plant in Transnistria.
@@cosdache do you even think before writing that?
One very ironic detail you missed: the Transnistrian side was not only supported by the Russian 14th Guard Army but also by a sizable number of volunteers from the Ukrainian nationalist group UNA-UNSO (which over time merged into Right Sector). How times have changed.
What are talking about - give plz you source of information?! Una Unso couldn't participate in Transnistrian conflict ideologically and de facto they didn't.
@@ce8042 they have indeed fought for Transnistria and helped quite much
@@MrZebeda Yes, you are right, they have participated, a unit from 80-250 fighters. Interesting fact.
" What gives birth from the cat, all mice eat ! "
" Ce naște din pisică, tot șoareci mănâncă ! "
Once again, you deliver another factual and unbiased video on a very complicated issue. Well done!
nothing can ever be fully unbiased. there is no such thing as n objective, unbiased, factual truth. this doesn't mean I disagree with the video, simply that the way you phrased your praise of it implies an underlying basis of thought, that is simply wrong
Here to second Vale.
Unbiased is unpossible. But striving for balance is usually a good thing (note the moderate use of the word: "usually").
@@peytongonavy Impossible is more powerful than saying unpossible, and I don't think it's grammatically correct, idk English is my 2nd language.
Edit: changed unpowerful to unpossible.
@@alicorn3924 unpowerful does not relate to impossible those words have completely different meanings
@@serhiy1132 oh my fricking god, I meant unpossible
Thanks for the in-depth review! Very well-researched and factual!
Although I'm surprised you didn't dwell on Romanian-Moldovan relations post-independence or the Transnistrian economic system.
Thanks! The script originally had sections on these issues as well, but I decided to cut them in the end, because they are not essential for understanding the basic political issue in Transnistria. Maybe I'll make a follow-up video at some point.
@@PoliticswithPaint may i ask something.
I google the word principality and it said 'a land ruled by prince ' what is the true meaning of it?
@@theeraphatsunthornwit6266 that is the true meaning of it
@@TomorrowWeLive i googled some. And found that the word 'prince' can also mean a king of a small country. So, the ruler of a principality is not necessary a son of a king.
@@PoliticswithPaint Transnistria military doesn’t exist. They’re just rusian troops. Transnistria allways was part of the Moldova but rusia still do the scheme: divide and conquer. Russia should stop creating separatist regions. Transnistria doesn’t exist. Is Moldova
Western Moldavian here (the part from Romania). Your account of history is super duper spot on! Kudos!
I lost it when the romanians were speaking numa numa eii 🤣🤣
*Vibes to sax guy*
@@inodimus yes, that's true, it's a Moldovan song
Haha.
Sameee
@@paulaedwards8937 moldovan song singed in Romanian.
One mistake.
Vassal state doesn't mean it was occupied or ruled by Turks. And when the Russian empire started war against the Ottoman empire, Moldova didn't fight against Russians, they from the start took the side of Russian Empire and fought side by side against Ottomans. But in result, as russian "respect", Russian empire occupied Bessarabia.
Yeaah, Eastern Europe has learned throughout the history, to not let Russians step on your land, because they won't leave.
@@chrisbruhe we have the same but for americans lol
@@OsnoloVrach and how do you explain western Europe, Japan and how well Afghanistan was doing before Biden retreated? The fact is the biggest problem with our United States happen when Progressives (lovers of Soviet and other Communist systems along with other elites) are in power in our United States of America.
@@williamblansett5786 holy shit dude i literally made one comment about america lmao this isnt an exam you dont need to write an essay
@@OsnoloVrach so you write a derogatory statement while it's implication is false and you don't want to be called on it. Does that make you part of the crowd who wants to limit free speech? If not explain how? Try using free speech while you have it before the "department of misinformation" decides you should be silenced.
Great video! You should also make a video about Georgia's conflicts with Russia regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It also is very similar to the situations in Ukraine and Moldova.
I can see you are putting a lot of work in making , creating and editing each image of this video. Sir , I salute you and your craft. I wish you succes with your channel.
I went in knowing nothing about the region and came out knowing at least a skeleton of the country's history. Thank you for this.
Woah! The work for this video should have been very hard, and the result came very pretty! Thanks for teaching Geohistory and Geopolitics in such a simple, good and understandable way. 😎
How you depict integration of Transnistria in Moldova is so funny and so true!
Very good video, but the major problem is that you didn't include Northern Bukovina in Greater Romania's and Moldavia's borders
@Craze?
Thank you for the explainer. I always looked at Moldova and wondered how it came to be.
Another great video. I always found Tranistria super interesting, how it's like the Soviet Union never fell there. Just like all the other breakaway areas that Russia helped establish. They're like a glimpse of what empires were like in the past.
This, that the PMR is like the Soviet Union, is something that is not entirely true by the way, or at least very played up.
I've been to Transnistria twice in 2018 and 2019, Tiraspol and Bendery. The only thing Soviet about the republic is the state symbols and the fact that the republic has not seen much development since the nineties. However, if you go to provincial Russia you'd see a very similar environment, including most of the soviet-era city ornaments and communist statues.
When it comes to the political and economic system, Transnistria is a capitalist, authoritarian hybrid regime, again very similar to Russia, with powerful political-economic clans such as the Smirnov clan (who own the Sheriff conglomerate) in control.
Compared to other partially recognized countries I've been to Transnistria is (was) very chill and fairly friendly. As I said the best comparison would be that it is like a little piece of provincial Russia.
@@MrZebeda I find it sad for me to admit it, but what you said is actually true, as someone who is from there and (not living there) has ties with relatives there and getting news. I’d say I really love the PMR, it has given me much memories, and now, the sight of Lenin statues, soviet-styled buildings, the shop sheriff and communist symbols are part of me, I never lived there, but I still spent every year’s summer there (not counting 2021, when we wine there for 10 days in December) and I have an unfulfilled dream there. Much respect to you man, peace for everyone
@@MrZebeda Thanks to the blockade of Moldova, it cannot develop
Hey how did you add those custom emoji things.
Would be great to know.
@@wersab5960 I'm a CZcams channel member. So where it says subscribe, there's a button that says join. So if you like the channel and want to support it, you can and pay a certain amount every month. You also have access to early videos releases too before anyone else gets to see it know this channel
Honestly, the first time I read the title I thought it said "Transnistria - Moldova's Dumbass?"
Oh boy you had me burst out laughing at 1 am
But yes, the PMR’s government is really a dumbass that Moldova has to deal with (as someone from both countries)
Same
I mean. That’s not entirely untrue.
@@burningphoenix6679 exactly, I mean, I am stupid myself, but not because I'm from there, the government is stupid lmao
@@paulaedwards8937 hello
Very nice video! You explained the situation really good. Good luck with your channel
I'm literally dying from laughter at 5:41 XD
Always love your video. I would suggest subtitle for your future video for broader audience. Appreciate your work!
Thank you for the donation! Thats a good idea, I've been thinking about that for a while too. Hope I'll find the time to do it.
How the heck did you do that?
@@DonutsIceCreamAndCottenCandy I think its the Thanks button
I've only seen donation comments with "Thanks" and no replies on it.
The box that says the reply has been posted is also different. It's white, and it's on the other side.
you are great at explaining politcal issues at a funny way. GREAT work !
Love your vids. Unbiased and with some good jokes :D Greetings from Serbia.
@Nationalistic Pole Huh?
@Nationalistic Pole Coming from a guy named "Nationalistic Pole"? You okay man?
@Nationalistic Pole Go talk to a doctor.
@FreeMan 🇪🇺 You have a disease, go get treatment.
I am from The Republic of Moldova and everything that you waid is right. When the war in ukraine started, everyone was freaking out and a lot of people left the country to Romania to escape being the next county involved in a war. Great vid.
This is why people should be unionist!!! Under Romania you will not get invaded!!
@@_braileanul Funny how this is the exact same words, People in Donetsk say ;) They say, under Russia they will not get invaded again by Ukraine (as in 2015) And that's the main reason they ask for joining Russia (They say)
Pretty funny as i said. Nothing bad tho
@@alexreasa8815 it's funny when your worldview is so skewed that such made up lie makes sense. But reality is that Ukraine never invaded donbas. Obviously. Idk how you guys can pull up this kind of stuff
@@_braileanul it's funny when your worldview is so skewed that such made up lie makes sense.
You know, usually u dont send
Planes to BOMB cities OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
For comparison. Why, for example, when Catalonia, in 2017, held a referendum on the independence from Spain.
Why Spain, did NOT send bomber planes to BOMB Barcelona?
Think about why Spain did not do this. Ukraine on the other hand started to send FIGHTER PLANES and BOMB its own TERRITORIES, it's own peaceful cities. (Yes, they were separatists SAME AS Catalonia)
IMAGINE THIS. And then, tell me WHY,
WHY, You CAN drop bombs on people in Luhanks, but CANT drop bomb on people in Barcelona?? Is it fair? Or maybe you think THAT SPAIN SHOULD BOMB ALL SEPARATISTS IN BARCELONA? If so, we cant talk with you anymore, you are a monster.
@@_braileanul do you think bessarabia is rightful Romanian territory?
So we just not gonna talk about how this man slipped in a “numa numa” reference?
lol
Thank you so much for this video. I was born and grown up in Transnistria (1992). I have been living all my life here. I saw the consequences after the war 1992 with my own eyes. I leanrt so much about the conflict and history of this little strip of the land during my school and university time. I read and wayched many different points of view. And it is very VERY sad that most of the countries have very bad and negative attitude towards Transnistria. And I would really fall on my knees in front of you, because you did this video so kind and truly that even I could never do it. PLEASE try to spread this video AS FAR AS you only can. PLEASE - tell as many people as you can . People in Transnistria are NOT BANDITOS from 90-ies, are NOT SOVIET COMMUNIST, and of course are NOT AGRESSIVE neither to Ukraine nor to Moldova.
you're definitely stuck between a rock and a hard place, but to say that the people aren't soviets falls a bit flat when you have so many crackpots who idolise and emulate those times, it may not be you personally but there are plenty of people there that need to take of the rose tinted glasses and wake up to reality.
Yes, congratulations on being colonised by russia.
Bro there’s communist symbols everywhere
@@OfficialSaul yes, transnistria was more or less raped by the Soviets.
@@SakakiDashда так изнасиловано что построили целые города, заводы, фабрики, санатории, ТЭС, АЭС, ГЭС мелочь.
Great work again, thanks
5:43 Romania didn't "annex" the land of Bessarabia in 1918, it voluntarely united with the motherland
😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
Great video, just one small mistake I noticed: at 4:20 and 6:30 the maps of Moldavia and Romania only contain the southern part of Bukovina, even though the region wasn't split until 1940 when the Soviet Union demanded it along with Bessarabia. Other than that the video was very enjoyable.
Are you speaking about Northern Bukovina? It was a part of Romania 1918-1940
@@ce8042 North Bukovina was part of Moldavia since it's founding by Dragoș until 1775 when all of Bukovina was annexed by the Austrians and given it's modern name (before it was known as Țara de Sus, roughly translating to the Highlands/The Upper Country).
@@vranceanknight4212 The name first appears in a document issued by the Voivode of Moldavia Roman I Mușat, on March 30, 1392, by which he gives to Ionaș Viteazul three villages, located near the Siret river.
@@easytiger6570 The Bukovina from Roman I Mușat document refers to one of the two beech tree forests from northern Moldavia(they were known as Bucovina Mică (Lesser/Small/Little Bukovina - not on the document) and Bucovina Mare (Greater/Big Bukovina - on the document)), while the modern name for the region came from the Austrians (The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg monarchy, which became the Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867.).
@@vranceanknight4212 "Official use" why would Germans make up a new name of slavic origin, instead of using the existing one?
Nice video! I would love it if you made a similar one about Georgia as well
3:50 you added wrongly on the map the people who settled budjack, in that time on the territory where you put the gagauz and ukrainian country balls, the settlements were vlachian as well, the gagauz arrived in the 19th century in Budjack after the Tatars were expelled, and in the tsarist census from 1817, the Ruthenians lived only in the north part of Basarabia, but it's a great video anyways
This is all complicated by the fact that Moldova and Romania consider themselves essentially one people, and majorities of both countries agree in principle that they should be one state as well; this is much easier said than done, but if Moldova successfully accedes to the EU it will have effectively cleared the path for domestic economic and cultural integration even if the two peoples maintain technically-separate state structures.
Lived in Romania for a year , and had to stay in Moldova for just over a month to sort out an extended Visa for Romania (you can't stay in Romania to do that you have to leave the country and then apply). Also have a Romanian wife (I'm Australian).
While it sounds great for Romania and Moldova to merge together.. it is unlikely to happen any time soon. the large Russian speaking population in Moldova won't give up it's right to govern itself and be in control of what happens there, and Romania doesn't want to absorb the poverty and debts of the Moldovan economy. Effectively Moldova becoming part of Romania would severely drag down the Romanian economy and take them years to sort out.
I'm not an economist or anything, but I've spoken to enough Romanians about why doesn't Moldova join Romania and most of them want it to happen but say it will not happen because Moldova is so poor and they are concerned what that would do to their country (who's economy isn't that great to start with). Romania would have to pour tons of money into the Moldova area to improve infrastructure and quality of life just to bring it up to the rest of Romania's standard.
Please don't beat me up in the reply's if I'm wrong but that's just how it seemed to me when I lived there as an outsider looking in
@@Darksoull. This is my understanding as well, though I've never been to either country. Which is why joining the EU, if such a thing were possible, would be a back door into bringing them even closer together without putting the whole cost of modernising Moldova onto Romania's shoulders.
But Russia might also use such an accession as yet another provocation, so it isn't terribly likely either at the moment.
Who counts? what are you carrying anyway?
@@riptidemonzarc3103 Moldova will not withstand such prices, which are now in Europe. And it should not be united with Romania!
@@NickolasWhite779 uh oh, russian detected
Well presented video :D I look forward to more videos in the future :)
Great video! As a Moldavian I can confirm that the research was thorough and everything said was true. Keep up the good work
Hello, I’m half from the PMR, I’m happy to actually see a Moldavian here in the comment section, I 100% agree with you! Peace and respect)
What's your opinion of the likelihood of Russian annexation of Transnistria and what would the reaction be from the Moldovan nation?
@@hermanwooster8944 I am not sure of the repercussions but I think letting go Transnistria would benefit the Romanian-Moldavian relationship and culture, especially culture because the influence of Russian speakers is enormous, which some native Moldavians despise (including me)
@@bogdanmocanu5829 I appreciate your answer. Do you mind explaining what is it about the influence of Russian speakers and their culture that native Moldavians despise? I understand there is a cultural division, but I don't understand what it is.
Edit: fixed spelling of Moldavian*
@@hermanwooster8944 Imagine if English was mixed with Spanish and the words were spelled as they were heard. This is what Russian language did to Romanian. The so called ,,Moldavian Language" is just broken Romanian, which is generally considered as the main way dumb people talk.
5:41 For those who didn’t get the joke, the speech bubbles are some lyrics to the song “Dragostea Din Tei” by the Moldovan band O-Zone.
Some of you may know it as the “Numa numa” song
I don't know if you guys know but around 2019 Romanian president Klaus Iohannis was asked a question by a romanian cytizen if Romania could unite with Moldova and he said "this wont help the country with anything but we might work out on something on this in 2025"
Yeah tf is he gonna? He can’t do anything without us moldovans agreeing with that bullshit union
Nice report, pretty accurate. Need to make one small correction 1365 date of foundation of old Moldova by Bogdan Voevod, not by Dragos. I am from Pridnestrovie
Both of you are right, while Dragoș is the official founder of Moldavia his state was small (roughly modern day Bukovina (North and South)) and was a march of the Kingdom of Hungary. Bogdan is the founder of the Principality of Moldavia which was independent of Hungary and larger, encompassing most of the future territory of that we now associate with the Principality of Moldavia.
Transnistrian here. Great review, the best so far I've seen about our country. Although there are some remarkable parts of our history that I would add:
1. In the 17 century there was a period of time when the Crimean Khanate was a vassal of Ottoman Empire. During that time the region of Yedisan was formed (modern day Odessa region of Ukraine and Transnistria), where people were given liberty on their religion and many Bulgarians were sent to. However, main population consisted of Ukrainian Cossacks and Moldovans, and so far it was de-facto autonomous as there would be an elected ruler, the Hetman (just like in Ukraine/Zaporozhian Sich), but was approved by Sultan or later Khan. The capital city was Dubossary, which is a modern-day Transnistrian city.
2. In the 17-18 century Ukrainian Cossacks made an attempt to introduce democratic regime within their land, and the "Agreements and Assignments of Rights and Freedoms of Zaporozhian Army" (or just "First Ukrainian Constitution") was written by Philipe Orlyk in Bender, a Turkish fortress and modern day Transnistrian city. Philipe Orlyk was the right-hand of Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa, which was brutally eliminated by Russians for seeking independence.
3. Continuing 18 century, Russian Empress has founded the fortress of Tiraspol, modern-day capital city of Transnistria, and has cancelled Ukrainian autonomy (contradicting the Pereyaslavl Agreement with Moscow Duchy) and destroyed Zaporozhian Sich, leading Ukrainians into serfdom. Cossacks of Transnistrian region asked to let them for the new cossack army, and it was granted in form of Black Sea Cossack Army with the capital in Slobodziya (now town in Transnistria), yet the land was never given to them, and vast majority of the people were moved to Kuban region (modern-day Russia). Cossacks there tried to establish their old lifestyle and called their capital the New Sich, but Russians didn't like that and reformed them into a similar to the Don Cossack Army structure with the capital name of Yekaterinoslavl ("Town of Kathrine's Glory")
4. With the Bolshevik revolution in the beginning of 20th century, Reds killed Russian Tsar and his family, thus denouncing the Pereyaslavl Agreement, and creating circumstances for Ukrainians to separate. Because of that, big part of the Whites (anti-Bolshevik) go to the side of Ukrainian People Republic (Transnistria included). This caused panic in Basarabia, which declared independence from Russia as Basarabian Democratic Republic and, being concerned that Ukrainian forces will later on capture them, invited Romanians to annex them.
5. With industrialization of Transnistrian region during Soviet time (70s) a lot of Russians came to Transnistria for work. Meanwhile, with Soviet politics of "rootization" many Ukrianians and Bulgarians on this territory were renamed into Moldovans on paper. There also was a policy of making national languages secondary, which removed Moldovan/Romanian and Ukrainian languages from use.
6. In 1992 Ukraininan nationalistic organisations, that were collaborating with Nazi Germany were helping Transnistrians to fight the war against the Moldovans, with their HQ in a local Polish village Rashkov. There was supposed to be a referendum held on reuniting with Ukraine, but Ukrainian president refused to accept such a thing.
Also, Transnistrians don't see themselves similar to Donbass region, because we kinda have more rights for independence (it is all the exploitation of jurisdictional stuff, but still). Like, in the declaration of independence of the Republic of Moldova it is stated that Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement is illegal, but because of that very agreement most of PMR territory was united with Moldova. And that territory doesn't go back to Ukraine, because in their declaration it is stated that the agreement is illegal, yet the borders stay as those of Ukrainian SSR. Hence, there is a void to be filled, which lead to declaring a new country via referendum (if you find hard to pronounce MASSR, then try saying Pridniestrovian Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, hehe). But then there's a Montevideo convention which lists a set of "rules" for such referendums, and one of them is that there should be no army of a foreign state present on the territory, whereas there was Russian/Soviet army in Tiraspol. So here we are.
And what Russians did to Transnistria to hold it aside is a huge topic that may be worth a separate review.
Wow, such a detailed response, thanks for the info! Greetings from Romania 👋🇷🇴
Where are you from? A doubt that you are from Pridnestrovie
@@ce8042 Ну ок. Я с Тирасполя так-то. Если не верится, то.. Шериф старушку совсем испортил, портал закрыли, при Смирнове было лучше
@@tigormal Что за мостом за паромом было до наводнения?
@@tigormal мне вот всегда было интересно, как там дела с румынским языком в Приднестровье обстоят?
the OSCE and EU, can build on the technical and economic agreements they have helped facilitate in the last few years. Thus far these agreements have not meant much to large parts of Transdniestrian society, which still exists in semi-isolation. Most Transdniestrians would benefit from a greater international presence on the ground, in particular to work on reforming the local economy.
An interesting fact: In 2003, negotiations were held between Russia and Moldova on ways to resolve the conflict in Transnistria. As a result, a plan was created called the "Kozak Memorandum" (on behalf of the Russian official who headed the delegation). The plan assumed the federalization of Moldova, the autonomous status of Transnistria as part of a single state and the delimitation of the language issue. The Moldovan delegation had previously agreed, but something had changed the night before the signing. In the morning, Moldovan diplomats refused to sign the agreement. Evil and deceitful people talk about American diplomats who interfered in the negotiations and put pressure on the President of Moldova, but this, of course, is not true. Have American politicians ever hindered peace initiatives in troubled regions?
The better question
Have they a reason to do it
Or did You just find an convenient scapegoat
Great video! I’m happy to know the history of my country❤ keep up the good work!
Esti din Moldova si nu stiai asta??
Thanks for your information and analysis on this little known country and neighbours
Very good video explained by a foreigner but people in Moldova like me has more to talk about the conflict but is good ))))
Well done!
thank you for the information.
Long time watcher, but first time commenter here; anyway, really interesting video as always and, like plenty of other people have said, it definitely would be interesting to see another video about Abkhazia and South Ossetia!
Really like your new globeBall
I visited Moldova a month ago and they still relays on the buildings that the Russians built except for Chișinău and there is a lot of Russian influence
Which buildings did the Russians build especially outside of Chișinau? Most of the area outside Chișinau is rural and people built their own stuff. What on Earth are you talking about?
Не думал, что кто-то будет говорить о моей стране!
Спасибо автору за ролик! Я от всего сердца желаю вас всем счастья и мира! Всем привет из Приднестровья!
Это не страна, а окупированый клочок земли москвой где она насаживает ложную культуру для будущих окупацией, и там живут только румыны с молдованами и украинцами, русские после своей разваленой империи могут свалить себе на родину в Сибирь.
@@dennyfpv1996 как много обиженных людей в мире.
Страна хочет в НАТО и ЕС - "свобода выбора". Страна хочет в состав России - "оккупированная территория! Фашисты!"
@@_Military_Country_ Потому что если люди хотят в нищету и диктатуру у них либо шизофрениия, либо они обмануты либо это насильно
@@dennyfpv1996, согласен, по этой причине путь геев, трансов и мира без Бога - лучший путь.
@@_Military_Country_ я не вижу геев не в Вене не Братиславе, если в преднистровье это считается самая большая проблема в ЭС, то значит вариант что обмануты очень хорошо подходит к вам. Не зря говорят у россии пропаганда хорошая
Several items left out or purposefully changed: 1) Tsarist Russia under Alexander II did wage war in the Balkans against the Turks, but not to expand Russia, only so Eastern Orthodox countries could gain independence. 2) Russia is not against countries on its borders trading with the West or Westernizing. Russia itself has pursued both until 2014. When US entities sponsor nationalist uprisings (color revolutions), Russia understands the goal is to expand NATO, posing a direct threat to Russia's existence. 3) Russia prefers neutrality for countries on its borders. 4) Russia launched its full scale invasion in 2022 of Ukraine because they were provoked. Zelensky, on Biden administration urging, renewed the shelling of the Donbas and rejected the Munich Accords and negotiations.
Great Video!!
Hi everyone, I am a Moldovan, I live in Transnistria, I liked the way you described our story, quite plausibly.
I love my country and neighbors, I don't want any fighting. Peace!🤗♥️
Basarabia e România !
@@EddyMondialu17 nu😑
Is Ukraine
@@bes1k19 Ești prost, Ucraina e un stat format după Uniunea Sovietica ( puppet state ), Basarabia era doar o regiune din România Mare, de-a lungul istoriei Basarabia/Moldova a avut propria istorie alături de valahia ( România) timp de mii de ani, Ucraina pana la războiul mondial nu a existst, iar Bucovina de Nord si Basarabia de Sud au fost cedate Ucrainei de Moldova după ce s-a destrămat Uniunea Sovietica, deoarece dacă Basarabia pastra sudul si Bucovina de nord după destrămare se dezvolta mai mult si România avea interes mai mare sa se unească cu Basarabia, ceea ce russia nu a vrut niciodată! Asa ca nu mai vorbi căcat
@@bes1k19 Ucraina nu a deținut in instoria ei Basarabia , iar Bucovina de nord, Basarabia de sud si insula serpilor sunt teritorii 100% românești, ocupate de rusi si cedate voua după ce s-a destrămat Uniunea Sovietica
Freedom for Transnistria!
Thanks
Transnistria : I Love you Russia
Russia : Not now
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7:15 it should be mentioned that this administrative "swap" was done intentionally to sow disunity between the different socialist republic. As long as Ukrainians and Moldovians can't agree on a border, they can't unite against the USSR - a classic divide and conquer strategy that was also employed by other imperialist countries, such as the British Empire and France in Africa and the Middle East.
Transnistria military doesn’t exist. They’re just rusian troops. Transnistria allways was part of the Moldova but rusia still do the scheme: divide and conquer. One day Romania and Moldova will be again together broathers 🇷🇴🇲🇩❤️
lol! horse manure, excuse my french! That is THE exact thing "assh0l3s" on BOTH sides of the "political specter" keep psycho-babbling about the Soviet Union being "an empire". The hell it was! No sucking sh*t off of the overseas colonies. Only the CULTURAL expansion. Peace-building. Education. Science. Kindergartens, schools, universities... And... nurturing the local "elite"... mean, haughty, and stupid as fск
Thank you for this
I watch 14 seconds of the first video I've ever seen from you and I'm already subscribed
Transnistria on Russian translated like Преднестровье(Prednestrovie)
Thanks for letting the English speaking audience know You Tube about such an urgent problem in Transnistria! I myself am from Transnistria and I am pleased to know that someone is talking about our small country!
приветик из Тирасполя!!!
@@toddler53 Привет с Ближнего Хутора
You both are Romanian
One small detail you got wrong: not a country, but a region in the Republic of Moldova.
Привет с Бендер
Good job!
Thanks for this job!
I like it how in the fighting scenes, the East bank has a factory and the West bank has a church. The Soviet Union industrialized the territory with the higher percent of ethnic Russians. The same is true in Ukraine, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions were(still are?) more industrialized than the rest of the country.
you said that romania annexed Bessarabia when in fact it was a union
Good conclussion brother
Hi xenia
Thanks for these story time about my land
Romanian here.
Great summary!
The sooner Moldova gives up trying to hold Transnistria, the better. It was never romanian/moldovan territory. It was created by russians to mess things up.
The logical thing to do is give Transnistria's independence (with russian army leaving the area), and Moldova to join EU or (if they want) unite with Romania.
A decision has to be taken by Moldova. No decision means being stuck in this state between Russia and EU. No man's land. No investments. No life.
There is no such thing as "neutral" country for Moldova. Moldova is not Switzerland.
You are either a buffer zone (like Moldova is now) - and nobody invests in a buffer - or "join" one side. Moldova was a buffer for 30 years. Look how it ended up, the poorest country in Europe :(
There is no other option.
Up until now Moldova had close ties to Russia, so an independent Transnistria was not allowed from Moscow. It would be like Moscow removing their Trojan Horse.
But could the current government from Moldova just recognize Transnistrian independence overnight ? Do they need to hold a referendum in Moldova too ? I don't know what the procedures are and what's stopping them.
@@scratchy996 yes, they need a referendum normally, though I am not sure what Moldova constitution say about this.
And about close ties to Russia, it is not true. 70% of Moldova’s trade is with EU, and a lot of it with Romania.
“Ties” were only political and in the propaganda that Moscow does in Moldovan media.
But in terms of economic support and investments, Russia does nothing.
Russia wants political control, but with EU and Romania’s money.
It does not work like this. EU is not stupid…
@@wouldnt_you_like_to_know By close ties I meant politicians and the communist party.
@@scratchy996 Then yes. Those were close ties :)
Until now, political class in Moldova tried to have it both ways, with EU for money, and with Russia out of fear, old times or whatever.
We call this in Romania to "suck on two tits" , or "have your butt in two boats ":)
This cannot work long term, when as a country you are not in position to offer advantages for your "neutrality", like Switzerland does (everybody is keeping the money there for instance).
@@scratchy996 A Trojan horse?.. Do you know how "many" Russian troops are in Transnistria? About 1500, which is very little, given that Russia has no land and sea access to this 'country'.
Good one! Next video should be about the Balkans, mainly Kosova-Serbia
It's Kosovo and Metohija, not Kosova. Kosovo is a Serbian word, meaning the (field of) Blackbird's.
I remember learning about Transnistria like two years ago and was so mind blown that it was able to exist where it does.
It’s only able to exist because it’s rebellion against Moldova started within Moldovas industrial heartland.
Only way for it to be retaken is if Ukraine or Romania gets involved which was unlikely til the Russo Ukrainian war started.
Достойное описание. Есть упущенные моменты, но в целом верно
Transnistria makes no sense as part of Moldova. The Soviets artificially created a separate Moldovan Transnistria to try to expand into the Balkans, but the territory of Transnistria was never part of Moldova before then. The Moldovans were always a minority there.
Exactly, it’s just these times that now our republic’s population is just made up of Moldovans, Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians and Bulgarians(???), plus Sheriff’s soccer team is just even more multicultural than the PMR’s population itself.
@@paulaedwards8937 Saying "Romanians and Moldovans" is like saying "English and Northumbrians" or "Germans and Prussians".
@@999mi999 that's how it is to you, but, I said that keeping in mind that Moldovans are those who come from Moldova and Romanians come from Romania. it's still 2 separate countries right now
@@paulaedwards8937 Ethnicity and nationality are different. Yeah, there's a moldovan nationality just like there's an austrian, swiss, belgian, etc. nationality, but those aren't ethnicities.
@@paulaedwards8937 And it's clearly not about nationalities since he is talking about the ETHNIC make up of the republic.
Nailed it
You captured the history perfect
Nice video
You should talk about georgia's problem of separatists region of apkadzia and samachablo (south ossetia)
7:10... incorrect, still, even to this day, the northern part (north bucovina) is actually romanian majority. not at all 'exclusivly ukranian speaking' and while now southern basarabia is majority russian and ukrainian, it was also romanian at the time of the soviet anexation and partition
That's not Northern Bucovina, but Hotin
@@Maolus That's literally just a city in northern bucovina. But one that seems to be ukrainian majority. The major city in the region literally has a romanian name. Cernăuţi (Чернівці).
Also correction: after checking some other info, the region seems its no longer romanian majority, but only a plurarity along the southern part.
@@HaartieeTRUE Hotin is not part of Northern Bucovina, it's part of Bessarabia
And another half of Ukraine......
Great job on this video! 👏
at 1:46 it shows the map
the russians left the north of ukraine and then went more into eastern ukraine and took over all of don bass even the north don bass in the sim game only the south of don bass is a seperate area like crimea or transnistria
Solution to the Transnistria Problem
1. Moldova gets United to the Moldovan Republic
2. Russian and Romanian are the official language
3. Moldova becomes friends with EU and Russia but doesn’t join NATO
4. Transnistrian will get human rights
5 . Moldovan and Transnistrian should not fight against eachother
If all people thought how you were in the world, there would be fewer problems
Would it help if Moldova united with Romania now? The moment the ink dried, the Moldovans would be under the umbrella of both the EU and NATO, without having to crawl on their bellies for years to get it. Russia's objections wouldn't matter, because they already played that card with Ukraine, which freed up Finland & Sweden to join NATO (and because if Russia is acting on a desire to enlarge themselves on the geopolitical map, then they'd have to anchor themselves in places like these as well.) Since Transdnistria is not acknowledged as an official state by anyone (not even Russia) then it's nominally still Moldova's to do with what they please; they only hadn't before because they lacked the force to do so, but now the tables have turned. At the same time as they rejoin Romania, they (or the Romanians) could set the border with Ukraine back at the Dniester. This would give the Ukrainians both a territorial and strategic victory, and allow the Ukrainians to ship goods easily down the Dniester. It would also improve the lives of the Transdniestrians as well, because their livelihoods would improve and they'd be living under fellow Slavs.
5:41 for refrence,these are the lyrics from a romanian meme song called "dragostea din tei"(and yes i am from romania)
Oh. Thanks.
So when the brake away province of Serbia, Kosovo wants to go its all fine, but Donbass or Transistria is not? Alot of double standards these days
Without going in to deep, I don’t know if it’s a double standard. Kosovo; we’re there many Serbians living there anymore? The impression that much of the world community has is that the tiny Serbian population had greatly aged and the Kosovar population was made up of manly young people. Serbs in 1991 made up 10% of the population. Serbs occupied certain districts where they form 80-90% of a hand ful of places. Before the war the Serbs in Kosovo formed a majority in a few districts that lived in the North. The Serbs were highly represented in the police force and paramilitary forces. When ethnic conflict broke out the Serbian, Yugoslav forces attacked the Kosovar community driving large numbers of Kosovar Albanians out of the country. Basically a drive of ethnic cleansing. A conflict that went just over a year had 10,000 casualties and 900,000 refugees. After the war ended 230,000 Serbs became refugees so no matter what people suffered.
Donbas is totally different, the border is meant to be sacrosanct with Russia’s agreement in 1991 and the population is not ethnically divided. Donbas is linguistically divided more so. Ukrainian language was suppressed by Soviet officials. The use of Russian gives a false impression of ethnicity and demographics of the populous throughout Ukraine. The larger question regarding Donbas is that the majority didn’t want to break away from Kyiv. That has become more so over the most recent years. Russia is meddling in other countries political outcomes. Nobody from NATO tried to alter the political system in Kosovo.
Transnistria is not recognised beyond that no one is meddling from the west there
@@mikhailv67tv It's a illegal secession like Algeria from France but instead of paying the required 1 mil deaths it got out with around 10000 because it was helped . Same is with Donbass , got the required 14000 deaths then it was ok for Russia to step in as not europe not UN got interested in what happened to the people there , things like Tornado , Aidar , Azov , Right sector, C14 . There is a interesting document at OSCE describing about 200 victims of torture and all the assorted stuff in 2014 and early 2015 but afterwards nobody bothered to count more , Yes , strategic interests are more important than anything and russians are not mad without reason . Anyway hunting separatists and torturing them for 8 years would not be something that we would do in Transnistria , we are a bit more sane , do you think so ?
@@ketelin4285 I’m amazed at the non equivalent examples that you can come up with. Algeria was a colonial space and though France had settled it and claimed it as France set up all these legal boundaries it was still foreign land with a people that had called in there’s for centuries. Ukraine has legal borders and those borders are the borders that need be honoured by Russia and Europe
@@ketelin4285 The fact that Ukraine has built a proper army now and is not relying on militias from right wing groups is apparent. The Azov Battalion is the only group that remains and it is under the chain of command now.
Привет из ПМР)))
Привет
5:25
I love the subtle Austria-Hungary pointing the gun the wrong way
very nice
5:41 lol
So the modern Republic of Moldova is just the eastern portion of what was the Principality of Moldovia. The reason that Moldova was never part of the modern state of Romania (except for a brief period) was because at the time when Moldovia and Wallachian united to form the modern state, the eastern half of Moldovia had already been taken by the Russians, had that not happened, modern moldova would most likely be part of modern Romania...Is this about right?
Nice reference to Numa Numa
yay a new video :)
5:43, i as a moldovan would not say annexed, but framed into Kingdom of Romania. Before Bassarabia to be part of Greater Romania, it was formed the "Democratic Moldavian Republic" (the moldavians could unite in 1918 but they didn't like the fact that Romania has gone for Transylvania but not for Bassarabia, but because of bolshevik threat, the moldavian deputies requested help from Romania thus turning to unite). Although, great video.
OMG the explanation at 11:25 killed me, I almost wet myself laughing with the little trans guy being stiched on the back of Moldova telling Moldova "Yes, listen to him." OMG! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amazing, the thumbnail predicted front lines 5 months later
If ypu go to 5:43 thers a refrenced to the song maia hi maia hu which is moldovian
Воу , классный получился ролик :)
Спасибо что рассказали подробную историю про ПМР ! Теперь я побольше узнала о своей родине .
.Хотела ещё добавить кое что . Так как приднестровье возле Украины , к нам пришли много беженцев из Украины . Многим пытаемся помочь , но есть и немного наглые люди . Беженцы заминировали много зданий ( недавно заминировали и нашу школу , и все перешли на дистанционку , сижу смотрю ваши видео дома с чяёчком uwu ) , издеваються над нашими людьми . И из за них теперь страшно выходить на улицу , а некоторые и вовсе уехали от греха подальше. Но всё же , переживём . Удачи автору ;)
Wow, great video :)
Thank you for sharing your detailed story about PMR! Now I know more about my homeland.
.I wanted to add something else. Since Transnistria is located next to Ukraine, many refugees from Ukraine came to us. We try to help a lot of people, but there are also a little arrogant people. Refugees have mined many buildings (recently they also mined our school, and everyone switched to remote control, I sit watching your videos at home with tea uwu), mocking our people. And because of them, it is now scary to go out into the street, and some have completely gone away from sin. But we'll still survive. Good luck to the author ;)
Береги себя, привет из России) ❤️
@@user-gz2ww7ec9i mennn ukrayne its Ur Brothers
@@iliepetcan1736 We were brothers until 2014, I am sorry that the war has begun, but both sides and Russia and Ukraine are to blame for this.
And yes, I am Russian, with the blood of Ukrainians, so for me personally this situation is generally terrible.
@@iliepetcan1736 Sorry for bad English in case of what, I write through a translator
Do you believe that refugees will "mine" schools and all that pseudo-news that are hard to belive? You must also be believing that moldovan police shot at schools and bus with workers. Good luck with that naive perception
Thanks for giving us any attention, but not every attention is good. Some of the assumptions you just made have no foundation whatsoever. For example, Moldova would never get involved in a military conflict. Even if attacked, most probably, we would give up shortly. We do not have an army that could step up or anything that can be used. And the thing that you just assumed that we would be interested in taking Transnistria by force is just absurdity at its peak. Please get a bit more informed, in the future, before making such statements.
We Romanians, the Pelasgo-Thracians, had over 200 tribes !
Where are you form I subbed to you a few days ago
ME too
Alternative Title: Donbass, Ukraines Transnistria
Historically speaking, yes
Regarding the 7:12, all we know is that Southern Basarabia was mainly habituated by the Vlachs till the Ottoman conquest of that region, after that there settle many Bulgarians that live along side with the Vlachs. Till1940 that region was mainly habitated by Bulgarians and Romanians and there was not a big community of Ukrainians, they settle that region in big numbers after 1940 after USSR deported Romanians from those regions (Bucovina and Southern Basarabia). If you wonder why in the chase of Souther Basarabia, well it was because Russia wanted to hold the mouths of Danube under it's control as it was an import trade route. During Romania Mare Romanins where almost half of the population there, now they are barely a few. Gagauz and Tatars where also bring along Ukrainians by Stalin to destabilize the region, this is why they give Transnistria also to Moldavia as Romanians-Moldovans to not make a solid block of power. If you wonder why Bulgaria was not affected by this deportation thinking is Romania propaganda, Bulgaria was not regarded as an enemy and was saw also as Slav brother, Russia had the dream to build a big Slav state under them but Romania and Hungary where cutting of the South Slavs from the rest, after Soviet occupation we had history changed to make us believe we are Slavs and where tricked to switch to Latin.
i learn about my country more than in our history classes
you forgot to mention that in 1992 Ukraine supported the secession of Transnistria from the MSSR