{"id":162334,"date":"2010-04-27T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2010\/04\/27\/the-sword-of-history-and-the-power-of-truth-the-case-of-moldovas-and-russias-v-day-208522-eng\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:37:33","slug":"the-sword-of-history-and-the-power-of-truth-the-case-of-moldovas-and-russias-v-day-208522-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-sword-of-history-and-the-power-of-truth-the-case-of-moldovas-and-russias-v-day-208522-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"The sword of history and the power of truth: The case of Moldova\u2019s and Russia\u2019s V-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><em>By Andrei Brezianu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Analogies are a notorious trap. Forgive me for trying this one. Soon after the fall of Baghdad, in a U.S. plane carrying a team of experts trained for post-victory action in Iraq, most of them were thumbing through books dealing with the fall of the Third Reich. To a reporter on board that looked like shallow preparation. At the end of a totally asymetric military engagement &#8211;the case of Iraq&#8211; there had been no surrender, no armistice, no classic capitulation, and of course, no V-Day proper, as in the case of the World War Two V-day in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>The 1945 Victory Day, currently celebrated in Moscow &#8211;less so in the West&#8211; was an entirely different kind of event: a true end of a war in surrender, a glaring finale, albeit not devoid of its own ambiguities and contradictions, mostly in the matter of subsequent angles of interpretation and ways of assessing its aftermath, both for the defeated and for the victors. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the common tenet that historians are called to assess the facts rather than sit in judgment, their views cannot help being tinted by some amount of partisanship. Facts presuppose indeed a measure of interpretation, but the more ideology and political partisanhip in the process, the more subjective the conclusions. Among such facts, there lingers, of course, among other things, a question of date: is V-Day May 9th, as Stalin and the Kremlin put it ?&hellip; Or is it May 8th as the West has it?&hellip; <\/p>\n<p>Leaving such calendar details aside, more interesting in historical perspective is perhaps the question of the victor&rsquo;s merits, track records and ripple effects on vast or small stretches of humanity, an issue which, sixty five years after, the cases of Poland, the Baltic states and, last but not least, historic Bessarabia, currently the Republic of Moldova, seem to illustrate as debatable variants on the theme of historical morality and historical truth.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently prompted by such troubling issues as morality and truth, Moldovan interim president, Mihai Ghimpu has declined to attend the solemn May 9th parade organized in Moscow. This information was confirmed by the president for <em>Jurnal TV<\/em>. &ldquo;I am not bonded anyhow to Moscow. Only the winners go there, what will the defeated ones do there&ldquo; &ndash;the president said. &ldquo;I agree that we are celebrating 65 years since the end of the Second World War&rdquo;,&#8211; he went on to say, adding that he finds it impossible to forget the deportations and hunger which took place in Moldova under Soviet dictatorship during its post-World War II inclusion in the USSR. <\/p>\n<p>As a backdrop to all this, Moldova&rsquo;s paradoxical position in the context of World War II is in itself illustrative of a situation with several <em>dramatis personae<\/em>. Two such personages &ndash;Molotov and Ribbentrop&#8211; included it in the secret protocol of the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 1939, so that that sliver of land was detached from Romania in 1940, then retaken by Romania in 1941. In the process, as the war broke out, native Moldovans happened to fight both the Red Army while enlisted in the Romanian Army and Romania while enlisted in Stalin&rsquo;s divisions. To compound the paradox, unlike Romania, which ended the war in the camp of the defeated, regardless of the contribution of its divisions to Hitler&rsquo;s defeat, Moldova (as a Soviet entity) ended the war in the camp of the victors, alongside America and Great Britain. So how should Moldova&rsquo;s survivor veterans &#8211;some citizens of the USSR, some citizens of Romania, some succesive citizens of both&#8211; be viewed today, now that their ranks grow thinner and thinner by the day? Ambiguities apart, this year, a small contingent of Moldova&rsquo;s military, standing for the reality that some native Moldovans happened to fight under the Soviet flag will take part in the Moscow Victory Day parade. But how about Victory Day for those Moldovan veterans who happened to fight against Stalin&rsquo;s divisions? Should they to be treated the same as those who fought under the Hammer and Sickle standard?. &ldquo;The facts of history never come to us pure, since they do not and cannot exist in pure form: they are always mirrored through the mind habits of the one who takes the trouble or assumes the mission to record them&rdquo;, as the British historian Edward H. Carr aptly put it. <\/p>\n<p>One such fact recently recorded is that both Moldovan veterans of the Romanian army and Moldovan veterans of the Soviet army will share this year a symbolic recognition of merit by virtue of a single distinction: Moldova&rsquo;s World War Two Commemorative Cross, &quot;Crucea comemorativ\u0103 a r\u0103zboiului al doilea mondial&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Moldova&rsquo;s communists strongly objected, crying foul. Such a sharply partisan attitude brings into focus the depth of the divide between the two sides of the issue of historical truth in the case of the Second World War&rsquo;s shifting alliances between 1939 and 1941 on the one hand, and of the conflict&rsquo;s finale, in the wake of Yalta and Potsdam. In the symbolic case of Moldova&rsquo;s Commemorative Cross sixty five years after, Moldova&rsquo;s current President&rsquo;s response was clear: &ldquo;They are all citizens of the Republic of Moldova. The second World War is a fact. We have to treat them equally. According to the law in this country they are equal in rights. They did take part in the Second World War. Period. We were neither Communists nor Nazis. We were simple citizens who happened to fall under that sword&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The legacy of that sword the same as the power of truth, continues to loom large over maverick Moldova, the only concrete residue of a 1939 secret Pact between two long-dead dictators, now present in the form of a full-fledged state in its own right on the map of post-totalitarian Europe, a country still yearning for a full return to Europe&rsquo;s enduring traditions and for full reconciliation with Europe&rsquo;s genuine values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Analogies are a notorious trap. Forgive me for trying this one. Soon after the fall of Baghdad, in a U.S. plane carrying a team of experts trained for post-victory action in Iraq, most of them were thumbing through books dealing with the fall of the Third Reich. To a reporter on board that looked like shallow preparation. At the end of a totally asymetric military engagement &#8211;the case of Iraq&#8211; there had been no surrender, no armistice, no classic capitulation, and of course, no V-Day proper, as in the case of the World War Two V-day in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><em>By Andrei Brezianu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Analogies are a notorious trap. Forgive me for trying this one. Soon after the fall of Baghdad, in a U.S. plane carrying a team of experts trained for post-victory action in Iraq, most of them were thumbing through books dealing with the fall of the Third Reich. To a reporter on board that looked like shallow preparation. At the end of a totally asymetric military engagement &#8211;the case of Iraq&#8211; there had been no surrender, no armistice, no classic capitulation, and of course, no V-Day proper, as in the case of the World War Two V-day in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>The 1945 Victory Day, currently celebrated in Moscow &#8211;less so in the West&#8211; was an entirely different kind of event: a true end of a war in surrender, a glaring finale, albeit not devoid of its own ambiguities and contradictions, mostly in the matter of subsequent angles of interpretation and ways of assessing its aftermath, both for the defeated and for the victors. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the common tenet that historians are called to assess the facts rather than sit in judgment, their views cannot help being tinted by some amount of partisanship. Facts presuppose indeed a measure of interpretation, but the more ideology and political partisanhip in the process, the more subjective the conclusions. Among such facts, there lingers, of course, among other things, a question of date: is V-Day May 9th, as Stalin and the Kremlin put it ?&hellip; Or is it May 8th as the West has it?&hellip; <\/p>\n<p>Leaving such calendar details aside, more interesting in historical perspective is perhaps the question of the victor&rsquo;s merits, track records and ripple effects on vast or small stretches of humanity, an issue which, sixty five years after, the cases of Poland, the Baltic states and, last but not least, historic Bessarabia, currently the Republic of Moldova, seem to illustrate as debatable variants on the theme of historical morality and historical truth.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently prompted by such troubling issues as morality and truth, Moldovan interim president, Mihai Ghimpu has declined to attend the solemn May 9th parade organized in Moscow. This information was confirmed by the president for <em>Jurnal TV<\/em>. &ldquo;I am not bonded anyhow to Moscow. Only the winners go there, what will the defeated ones do there&ldquo; &ndash;the president said. &ldquo;I agree that we are celebrating 65 years since the end of the Second World War&rdquo;,&#8211; he went on to say, adding that he finds it impossible to forget the deportations and hunger which took place in Moldova under Soviet dictatorship during its post-World War II inclusion in the USSR. <\/p>\n<p>As a backdrop to all this, Moldova&rsquo;s paradoxical position in the context of World War II is in itself illustrative of a situation with several <em>dramatis personae<\/em>. Two such personages &ndash;Molotov and Ribbentrop&#8211; included it in the secret protocol of the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 1939, so that that sliver of land was detached from Romania in 1940, then retaken by Romania in 1941. In the process, as the war broke out, native Moldovans happened to fight both the Red Army while enlisted in the Romanian Army and Romania while enlisted in Stalin&rsquo;s divisions. To compound the paradox, unlike Romania, which ended the war in the camp of the defeated, regardless of the contribution of its divisions to Hitler&rsquo;s defeat, Moldova (as a Soviet entity) ended the war in the camp of the victors, alongside America and Great Britain. So how should Moldova&rsquo;s survivor veterans &#8211;some citizens of the USSR, some citizens of Romania, some succesive citizens of both&#8211; be viewed today, now that their ranks grow thinner and thinner by the day? Ambiguities apart, this year, a small contingent of Moldova&rsquo;s military, standing for the reality that some native Moldovans happened to fight under the Soviet flag will take part in the Moscow Victory Day parade. But how about Victory Day for those Moldovan veterans who happened to fight against Stalin&rsquo;s divisions? Should they to be treated the same as those who fought under the Hammer and Sickle standard?. &ldquo;The facts of history never come to us pure, since they do not and cannot exist in pure form: they are always mirrored through the mind habits of the one who takes the trouble or assumes the mission to record them&rdquo;, as the British historian Edward H. Carr aptly put it. <\/p>\n<p>One such fact recently recorded is that both Moldovan veterans of the Romanian army and Moldovan veterans of the Soviet army will share this year a symbolic recognition of merit by virtue of a single distinction: Moldova&rsquo;s World War Two Commemorative Cross, &quot;Crucea comemorativ\u0103 a r\u0103zboiului al doilea mondial&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Moldova&rsquo;s communists strongly objected, crying foul. Such a sharply partisan attitude brings into focus the depth of the divide between the two sides of the issue of historical truth in the case of the Second World War&rsquo;s shifting alliances between 1939 and 1941 on the one hand, and of the conflict&rsquo;s finale, in the wake of Yalta and Potsdam. In the symbolic case of Moldova&rsquo;s Commemorative Cross sixty five years after, Moldova&rsquo;s current President&rsquo;s response was clear: &ldquo;They are all citizens of the Republic of Moldova. The second World War is a fact. We have to treat them equally. According to the law in this country they are equal in rights. They did take part in the Second World War. Period. We were neither Communists nor Nazis. We were simple citizens who happened to fall under that sword&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The legacy of that sword the same as the power of truth, continues to loom large over maverick Moldova, the only concrete residue of a 1939 secret Pact between two long-dead dictators, now present in the form of a full-fledged state in its own right on the map of post-totalitarian Europe, a country still yearning for a full return to Europe&rsquo;s enduring traditions and for full reconciliation with Europe&rsquo;s genuine values.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-sword-of-history-and-the-power-of-truth-the-case-of-moldovas-and-russias-v-day-208522-eng\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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