Posted on 08/22/2014 10:48:55 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
TransNistria will be a part of Russia, but the present situation in Ukraine prevents from doing it now, Putin’s envoy in Crimea Oleg Belaventsev said Aug. 19, Liga.net reports.
“I would unite TransNistria today. However, you see what is going on in Ukraine,” the envoy said.
“I am convinced that in the final run TransNistria will be a part of Russia,” he said.
In early August, Moldova demanded again that Russia withdraw its military from TransNistria.
Fearing the likely joining of Romania by Moldova , TransNistria, the base of a large Russian army and the area heavily populated by Russian-speakers, broke away from Moldova in 1992.
Romania is a member of NATO, and they will not like this one bit.
Was the issue ever in doubt?
Yeah, but Transnistria is legally a part of Moldova which isn't a NATO member country. Moldova and Romania have strong ties, obviously.
Transnistria is a historical fiction; a region carved out of Western Ukraine by the Germans in 1941 and thrown to the Romanians as a sop for Ribbentrop’s Vienna Award of Transylvania to Hungary. All the Romanians had to do was fight alongside the Germans to get it. Although many Romanians wondered how the fight for Transnistria took them all the way to the Don River around Stalingrad.
I find no historical reference to “Transnistria” as a political entity that predates 1940.
I believe back then it was a part of “Bessarabia”, which included Moldova.
The “Transdniestr” awarded by the Germans to the Romanians was the land to the east of the Dniester, going al the way to the Bug, and incorporating the city of Odessa. Most of this region was never historically part of Moldavia or Bessarabia. It was also not ethnically Romanian, although the Romanians attempted to colonize and “Romanize” the region during their brief civil administration.
The concept Transniester was loosely adopted by the Soviets as an administrative unit as a way of recognizing the heavy Russian ethnic makeup of the region, and that is the basis of today’s Transniester. But really, the national anthem of Transniester is best performed by The Monkees; a made up band playing for a made up country.
True, but what can they do about it? Russia knows Obama will not do a damn thing of any consequence. NATO won’t if Obama won’t. Romania should then annex Moldova (if the people there want it) and hope the Russians accept that.
“Take the last train from Kishinev, and I’ll meet you at the station.”
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