{"id":98839,"date":"2005-10-05T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2005\/10\/05\/voronin-tells-latvians-moldova-was-a-territory-of-ussr-but-romania-grabbed-it-5095-eng\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T20:10:00","slug":"voronin-tells-latvians-moldova-was-a-territory-of-ussr-but-romania-grabbed-it-5095-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/voronin-tells-latvians-moldova-was-a-territory-of-ussr-but-romania-grabbed-it-5095-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Voronin Tells Latvians: Moldova Was a Territory of USSR but Romania Grabbed It"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"Chisinau, October 5, 2005 (moldova.org) — In an interview to Girts Kondrats, Latvijas Avize, on September 29, 2005, during his visit to Lativa, Moldovan President Voronin, being asked what are his views about the fact that Moldova is the last victim of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Europe, stated that "in 1918, Romania made use of the weakness of Soviet power and grabbed the territory of Moldova, which at that time was known as Bessarabia. Before then the land had never belonged to Romania". And he went on by saying that "when the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic countries in 1940 and Stalin and Hitler divided up Poland among themselves, Moldova, as a territory of the USSR, regained its territory". Vladimir Voronin considers that in 1940, Moldovans regained their land [from Romania] and people of Bessarabia "had suffered under the Romanians for 22 years". <\/p>\n

This position of the Communist President of Moldova is in line with his believes expressed in another interview he gave to Radio Free Europe on February 8 this year. "This [Molotov-Ribbentrop pact] was not a realignment of borders", Voronin stressed. "Bessarabia was occupied in 1918 [by Romania], when she was a component of the young Soviet Union, and that’s why we are not affected. In 1940, our territory was liberated [by the USSR], and not occupied, as was the case with the Baltic countries or some parts of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact". <\/p>\n

Our Note: Bessarabia (Basarabia in Romanian) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldova (Moldavia) annexed by Russia in 1812. The remaining Moldova united with Wallachia in 1859 in what will become the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia declared independence from Russia and, by a majority vote of Sfatul Tarii (“Country’s Council” in English, Bessarabia’s legislative body) united with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918 at the end of World War I. USSR annexed Bessarabia in the beginning of WW II (under Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and again at the end of WW II and reorganized it as Moldavian SSR, reducing its territory by assigning its southern (Southern Bessarabia) and northern (Northern Bucovina) parts to Ukrainian SSR. In 1991 the Moldavian SSR declared independence from USSR as Republic of Moldova. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>In an interview to Girts Kondrats, Latvijas Avize, on September 29, 2005, during his visit to Lativa, Moldovan President Voronin, being asked what are his views about the fact that Moldova is the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"Chisinau, October 5, 2005 (moldova.org) — In an interview to Girts Kondrats, Latvijas Avize, on September 29, 2005, during his visit to Lativa, Moldovan President Voronin, being asked what are his views about the fact that Moldova is the last victim of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Europe, stated that "in 1918, Romania made use of the weakness of Soviet power and grabbed the territory of Moldova, which at that time was known as Bessarabia. Before then the land had never belonged to Romania". And he went on by saying that "when the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic countries in 1940 and Stalin and Hitler divided up Poland among themselves, Moldova, as a territory of the USSR, regained its territory". Vladimir Voronin considers that in 1940, Moldovans regained their land [from Romania] and people of Bessarabia "had suffered under the Romanians for 22 years". <\/p>\n

This position of the Communist President of Moldova is in line with his believes expressed in another interview he gave to Radio Free Europe on February 8 this year. "This [Molotov-Ribbentrop pact] was not a realignment of borders", Voronin stressed. "Bessarabia was occupied in 1918 [by Romania], when she was a component of the young Soviet Union, and that’s why we are not affected. In 1940, our territory was liberated [by the USSR], and not occupied, as was the case with the Baltic countries or some parts of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact". <\/p>\n

Our Note: Bessarabia (Basarabia in Romanian) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldova (Moldavia) annexed by Russia in 1812. The remaining Moldova united with Wallachia in 1859 in what will become the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia declared independence from Russia and, by a majority vote of Sfatul Tarii (“Country’s Council” in English, Bessarabia’s legislative body) united with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918 at the end of World War I. USSR annexed Bessarabia in the beginning of WW II (under Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and again at the end of WW II and reorganized it as Moldavian SSR, reducing its territory by assigning its southern (Southern Bessarabia) and northern (Northern Bucovina) parts to Ukrainian SSR. In 1991 the Moldavian SSR declared independence from USSR as Republic of Moldova. <\/p>\n

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