{"id":444097,"date":"2017-07-18T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444097"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:44:08","slug":"igor-dodons-past-support-irredentism-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/igor-dodons-past-support-irredentism-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Dodon’s Past Support for Irredentism Against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 5<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Moldova’s president, the former leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova\u00a0 and former Communist politician and Moldovan government minister Igor Dodon (2006-2009), who assumed office on December 23, 2016, has a background of having made public statements in favor of a territorial enlargement of Moldova at the expense of Ukraine. He has also semi-officially recognized Crimea as a part of Russia. Dodon has been far from the only leftist, pro-Russian public figure from the Republic of Moldova to want a larger Moldova at the expense of a smaller Ukraine. Indeed, the history textbooks that the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, which ruled the country in 2001-2009, introduced included similar ideas.
\nSeveral years after he departed the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and became the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova in 2011, Dodon made one such statement. As one may see in the Romanian-language article<\/a> and recording of Dodon, he made some irredentist statements in the studios of Unimedia in the Republic of Moldova on March 19, 2014. This occurred soon after the occupation of Crimea by Putin’s Russia, which is referenced in the taped recording.
\nDodon first said, “Let us not forget that, in the year 1940, illegally, certain territories of the Republic of Moldova were excluded from its composition, and were artificially united with another state. I will not reveal (this), but the people understand very well. I don’t think…” Then Ms. Robu asked him, “Please tell me to what you are referring more exactly.” Dodon then added, “I think that the people understand very well [that I am] referring to the south and the north of the Republic of Moldova. And thus, why not, under these circumstances, and after a precedent has already been created. There is already a precedent. After the Crimea precedent, why shouldn’t we think about this thing in relation to the territories that were historically, for hundreds of years, a part of the Republic of Moldova?” The reporter asked him, “Therefore, are you referring to Chernivtsi, to Bukovina?” Dodon added, “I am referring to the historical south and the historical north of Moldova.” The reporter asked, “From whom should we demand it?” Dodon answered, “And your next question was?” The reporter continued, “No, I asked you from whom we should demand these…” Dodon added, “I expressed my opinion. Elena, I expressed my opinion very clearly”. Elena added, “You told me…” Dodon: “The message…” Elena: “You expressed it half-way.” Dodon: “The message for those who wish to understand it was understood very well by them.” Elena: “But for those who have not understood it?” Dodon: “Those who have not understood it will come to us, to courses, to hours (i.e., classes), and we will explain it to them so that they would understand.”
\nThe northern and southern parts of historical Bessarabia were not assigned to the Republic of Moldova after the occupation of the Romanian province of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union in 1940, but to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Dodon is referring to these areas. The ethnic Ukrainians were, and are, a majority in northern Bessarabia, and a plurality in southern Bessarabia, and overall more numerous than the Moldovans\/Romanians. In exchange, a part of the Moldovan (Moldavian) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1924-1940) in Ukraine, the area in which the Moldovans were a plurality, was assigned to Soviet Moldova in 1940. It is called Transnistria, and it broadly overlaps with the Russian-sponsored secessionist area of Transnistria in the eastern part of the Republic of Moldova. “The Crimea precedent” refers to the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014.
\nDodon also stated that Crimea was, and should be, a part of Russia on several occasions. UNIAN has reported on one of them. ‘Dodon made such a statement on air during a joint meeting with the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, Marian Lupu. “The question, on which our viewer, your friend Andrey Bashtannik insisted, is an issue that is crucial for him – to whom does Crimea belong?” the TV presenter asked Dodon. “Russian Federation,” Dodon said. “That is, in your understanding…” the presenter went on to ask a clarifying question. “You heard me,” Dodon said, interrupting the reporter.’ Lupu disagreed<\/a> with him.\u00a0Dodon’s attitude provoked his opponent in the presidential elections runoff, the Harvard-educated, pro-Western Maia Sandu (who won 47.89% of the votes in the second round, as opposed to Dodon’s 52.11%, with thousands of votes obtained by the Dodon camp through fraud) to accuse him of “high treason”. ‘”My opinion is unambiguous. Crimea is part of Ukraine, occupied by the Russian Federation in violation of international legal norms,” she said in the interview this week.’ ‘”To confirm that Crimea is part of Russia is a form of high treason, especially given the conditions that we find ourselves, the Republic of Moldova, in where there is an occupied region that is controlled by a separatist regime,” she told RFE\/RL<\/a>.\u00a0Her comment was obviously in reference to the parallels between the Russian occupation of Crimea with Transnistrian secessionism.
\nOne might say that perhaps Dodon did not “really” mean all of these things. Yet one has to look at the vehemence with which he was making those statements, including in the Unimedia studio. One does not need to understand Romanian to observe that. Of course, those statements were only made in the Romanian language. He avoided saying this in Russian, which would have allowed the members of Moldova’s Ukrainian minority, who voted overwhelmingly for him for president, to understand what he said and abstain from voting.
\nDodon has not been the only Moldovan public figure with irredentist aspirations against Moldova. The homo sovieticus Communists and Socialists in Moldova have often tended to think along the same lines.
\nOne should note that the history textbooks that the Communists introduced in 2006 while in power had similar claims against Ukraine. They were replaced by the pro-European regime in 2009-2010. The year 2006 was the time when, after two years of conflict with Putin’s Russia, the Communist leader and president of Moldova Vladimir Voronin started to return to the Russian sphere of influence. During the same year, Dodon became a member of the Moldovan cabinet. Among other things, one of the textbooks states, “However, the democratic principles of equality were not respected by the union authorities. In the territory of the Moldovan SSR were included only 6 counties of the former Bessarabia and only 6 rayons of the former M.A.S.S.R. (Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – Ionas Rus). Thus, the space of historical Moldova, the counties of Cetatea Alba, Ismail and Hotin were arbitrarily given to the Ukrainian S.S.R.” The source is Sergiu Nazaria, Alexandru Roman, Mihai Sprinceana, Ludmila Barbus, Sergiu Albu-Machedon, Anton Dumbrava, Istorie: Epoca Contemporana, Manual pentru clasa a IX-a (which in English would be translated as “History: The Contemporary Period, Textbook for the Ninth Grade”) (Chisinau: Ministerul Educatiei si Tineretului al Republicii Moldova, 2006) (translated as “Chisinau: The Ministry of Education and Youth of the Republic of Moldova, 2006), p. 58. Needless to say, the Communist and Communistoid authors who expected the Stalinist regime to follow “the democratic principles of equality” did minimize Stalin’s crimes in other parts of the textbook, which included a surprising amount of propaganda. Yet they sometimes disagreed with the policies of the Soviet regime that were inconvenient much more recently to the homo sovieticus world and contemporary Russia. Dodon is far from the only Moldovan leftist, pro-Russian public figure with territorial aspirations against Ukraine.
\nIn conclusion, Igor Dodon, the president of Moldova, and former leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova and former Communist politician and cabinet minister, has openly claimed Ukrainian territories for Moldova. This parallels his semi-official recognition of Crimea as a part of Russia. Dodon has been far from the only leftist from the Republic of Moldova to claim territories from Ukraine. The Communist history textbooks in use in Moldova between 2006 and 2009\/2010 included similar ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 5<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org. *** Moldova’s president, the former leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova\u00a0 and former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":442033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 5<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This opinion piece was written by\u00a0Dr. Ionas Aurelian Rus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (USA). The opinion does not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff of Moldova.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Moldova’s president, the former leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova\u00a0 and former Communist politician and Moldovan government minister Igor Dodon (2006-2009), who assumed office on December 23, 2016, has a background of having made public statements in favor of a territorial enlargement of Moldova at the expense of Ukraine. He has also semi-officially recognized Crimea as a part of Russia. Dodon has been far from the only leftist, pro-Russian public figure from the Republic of Moldova to want a larger Moldova at the expense of a smaller Ukraine. Indeed, the history textbooks that the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, which ruled the country in 2001-2009, introduced included similar ideas.
\nSeveral years after he departed the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and became the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova in 2011, Dodon made one such statement. As one may see in the Romanian-language article<\/a> and recording of Dodon, he made some irredentist statements in the studios of Unimedia in the Republic of Moldova on March 19, 2014. This occurred soon after the occupation of Crimea by Putin’s Russia, which is referenced in the taped recording.
\nDodon first said, “Let us not forget that, in the year 1940, illegally, certain territories of the Republic of Moldova were excluded from its composition, and were artificially united with another state. I will not reveal (this), but the people understand very well. I don’t think…” Then Ms. Robu asked him, “Please tell me to what you are referring more exactly.” Dodon then added, “I think that the people understand very well [that I am] referring to the south and the north of the Republic of Moldova. And thus, why not, under these circumstances, and after a precedent has already been created. There is already a precedent. After the Crimea precedent, why shouldn’t we think about this thing in relation to the territories that were historically, for hundreds of years, a part of the Republic of Moldova?” The reporter asked him, “Therefore, are you referring to Chernivtsi, to Bukovina?” Dodon added, “I am referring to the historical south and the historical north of Moldova.” The reporter asked, “From whom should we demand it?” Dodon answered, “And your next question was?” The reporter continued, “No, I asked you from whom we should demand these…” Dodon added, “I expressed my opinion. Elena, I expressed my opinion very clearly”. Elena added, “You told me…” Dodon: “The message…” Elena: “You expressed it half-way.” Dodon: “The message for those who wish to understand it was understood very well by them.” Elena: “But for those who have not understood it?” Dodon: “Those who have not understood it will come to us, to courses, to hours (i.e., classes), and we will explain it to them so that they would understand.”
\nThe northern and southern parts of historical Bessarabia were not assigned to the Republic of Moldova after the occupation of the Romanian province of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union in 1940, but to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Dodon is referring to these areas. The ethnic Ukrainians were, and are, a majority in northern Bessarabia, and a plurality in southern Bessarabia, and overall more numerous than the Moldovans\/Romanians. In exchange, a part of the Moldovan (Moldavian) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1924-1940) in Ukraine, the area in which the Moldovans were a plurality, was assigned to Soviet Moldova in 1940. It is called Transnistria, and it broadly overlaps with the Russian-sponsored secessionist area of Transnistria in the eastern part of the Republic of Moldova. “The Crimea precedent” refers to the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014.
\nDodon also stated that Crimea was, and should be, a part of Russia on several occasions. UNIAN has reported on one of them. ‘Dodon made such a statement on air during a joint meeting with the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, Marian Lupu. “The question, on which our viewer, your friend Andrey Bashtannik insisted, is an issue that is crucial for him – to whom does Crimea belong?” the TV presenter asked Dodon. “Russian Federation,” Dodon said. “That is, in your understanding…” the presenter went on to ask a clarifying question. “You heard me,” Dodon said, interrupting the reporter.’ Lupu disagreed<\/a> with him.\u00a0Dodon’s attitude provoked his opponent in the presidential elections runoff, the Harvard-educated, pro-Western Maia Sandu (who won 47.89% of the votes in the second round, as opposed to Dodon’s 52.11%, with thousands of votes obtained by the Dodon camp through fraud) to accuse him of “high treason”. ‘”My opinion is unambiguous. Crimea is part of Ukraine, occupied by the Russian Federation in violation of international legal norms,” she said in the interview this week.’ ‘”To confirm that Crimea is part of Russia is a form of high treason, especially given the conditions that we find ourselves, the Republic of Moldova, in where there is an occupied region that is controlled by a separatist regime,” she told RFE\/RL<\/a>.\u00a0Her comment was obviously in reference to the parallels between the Russian occupation of Crimea with Transnistrian secessionism.
\nOne might say that perhaps Dodon did not “really” mean all of these things. Yet one has to look at the vehemence with which he was making those statements, including in the Unimedia studio. One does not need to understand Romanian to observe that. Of course, those statements were only made in the Romanian language. He avoided saying this in Russian, which would have allowed the members of Moldova’s Ukrainian minority, who voted overwhelmingly for him for president, to understand what he said and abstain from voting.
\nDodon has not been the only Moldovan public figure with irredentist aspirations against Moldova. The homo sovieticus Communists and Socialists in Moldova have often tended to think along the same lines.
\nOne should note that the history textbooks that the Communists introduced in 2006 while in power had similar claims against Ukraine. They were replaced by the pro-European regime in 2009-2010. The year 2006 was the time when, after two years of conflict with Putin’s Russia, the Communist leader and president of Moldova Vladimir Voronin started to return to the Russian sphere of influence. During the same year, Dodon became a member of the Moldovan cabinet. Among other things, one of the textbooks states, “However, the democratic principles of equality were not respected by the union authorities. In the territory of the Moldovan SSR were included only 6 counties of the former Bessarabia and only 6 rayons of the former M.A.S.S.R. (Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – Ionas Rus). Thus, the space of historical Moldova, the counties of Cetatea Alba, Ismail and Hotin were arbitrarily given to the Ukrainian S.S.R.” The source is Sergiu Nazaria, Alexandru Roman, Mihai Sprinceana, Ludmila Barbus, Sergiu Albu-Machedon, Anton Dumbrava, Istorie: Epoca Contemporana, Manual pentru clasa a IX-a (which in English would be translated as “History: The Contemporary Period, Textbook for the Ninth Grade”) (Chisinau: Ministerul Educatiei si Tineretului al Republicii Moldova, 2006) (translated as “Chisinau: The Ministry of Education and Youth of the Republic of Moldova, 2006), p. 58. Needless to say, the Communist and Communistoid authors who expected the Stalinist regime to follow “the democratic principles of equality” did minimize Stalin’s crimes in other parts of the textbook, which included a surprising amount of propaganda. Yet they sometimes disagreed with the policies of the Soviet regime that were inconvenient much more recently to the homo sovieticus world and contemporary Russia. Dodon is far from the only Moldovan leftist, pro-Russian public figure with territorial aspirations against Ukraine.
\nIn conclusion, Igor Dodon, the president of Moldova, and former leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova and former Communist politician and cabinet minister, has openly claimed Ukrainian territories for Moldova. This parallels his semi-official recognition of Crimea as a part of Russia. Dodon has been far from the only leftist from the Republic of Moldova to claim territories from Ukraine. The Communist history textbooks in use in Moldova between 2006 and 2009\/2010 included similar ideas.<\/p>\n

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