Moldova puts an end to a Soviet nonsense and recognizes that its official language is Romanian

@ElentirENG ES 3·16·2023 · 18:44 0

This Thursday, March 16, the Parliament of Moldova has put an end to a nonsense created by the Soviet dictatorship on the language spoken in that republic.

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A nonsense that had its origin in the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia in 1940

This nonsense has its origin in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939, by which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided up several Central European countries. One of the territories that Hitler and Stalin agreed to leave under Soviet orbit was Bessarabia, a large region of northeastern Romania that was invaded by the USSR in 1940. Most of that Romanian region was converted by Stalin in the so-called Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, origin of the current Republic of Moldova.

As I already commented here in 2017, after the annexation of Bessarabia, the Soviet dictatorship tried to undermine the Romanian culture of Moldovans, creating a Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet based on the old Romanian Cyrillic alphabet. (used until the middle of the 19th century) and trying to differentiate the language spoken in Moldova from the one spoken in Romania, despite being the same language, calling the Romanian spoken in Moldova a "Moldovan language". It is as if in Mexico they called the Spanish language spoken in that country "Mexican".

In 1991 independent Moldova recognized Romanian as its state language.

On August 27, 1991, the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova declared Romanian as a "state language" and "reintroduced the Latin alphabet", a decision that came to restore the situation prior to the Soviet invasion 1940. Likewise, and as a sign of its identification with Romania, the Republic of Moldova adopted a flag identical to the Romanian one, simply adding its own national coat of arms.

The communist attempt to recover the 'Moldovan' and the reaction of the Constitutional Court

However, in 1994, a Parliament dominated by the Moldovan Agrarian Party (made up of former communists), approved a new Constitution Article 13 of which states: "The state language of the Republic of Moldova is the Moldovan language." The text kept the Latin alphabet reinstated in 1991. December 5, 2013 , the Constitutional Court of Moldova amended that article, noting that "no legal act, regardless of its force, including the Basic Law, can contradict the text of the Declaration of Independence ", and adding: "the Court considers that the provision contained in the Declaration of Independence regarding the Romanian language as the state language of the Republic of Moldova pr prevails over the provision regarding the Moldovan language contained in article 13 of the Constitution."

The Moldovan Parliament has today recognized Romanian as the state language

Today, after eight years, the Moldovan Parliament has transferred that decision of the Constitutional Court to Moldovan legislation, noting that in all legislation of the Republic of Moldova, the phrase "Romanian language" will take the place of "Moldovan languages". Expressions such as "official language", "state language" and "mother tongue" will also be replaced. This decision has been rejected by the pro-Russian opposition and particularly by the communists, currently in the minority and who are fighting to try to maintain the nonsense imposed on Moldova by the Soviet dictatorship.

A gesture of rapprochement to Romania in the face of Russian invasion threats

This decision represents a clear rapprochement of Moldova to Romania (and thus to the European Union and NATO) at a time when the former Soviet republic is being shaken by recent threats of invasion by Russia and attempts by pro-Russian forces to destabilize the country. Let us remember that the eastern fringe of the country, the self-proclaimed "Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic", also known as Transnistria, has been occupied by the Russian military since 1995, a situation similar to that suffered by the Republic of Georgia with the Russian occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and also to the one that Ukraine has been suffering for years with the Russian occupation of Crimea and a large part of Donbass.

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Photo: Parlamentul Republicii Moldova.