I have been a participant of the war of defending the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, at present I am a military pensioner. For me it is especially painful the situation that has been created today in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, as a native inhabitant, as a person who has defended with the weapon in my hands this land and these ten years that had passed after the well-known events are very painful, because in reality the problem has remained quite the same in a stagnation of the events since 1992. nobody shoots, but the war is still prolonging.
It is an informational war, an intellectual war, a war of denationalization of the native population through different methods of the separatist system of Tiraspol, backed up directly by the chauvinistic forces from Moscow. I would like to speak especially about the problem of denationalization that has certain continuity. For the last 200 years this territory has been under the oppression of the tsarist regime, later under the oppression of the imperial politics of the Soviet Union and if in Bassarabia the school, the church, other bodies have activated using the Romanian language for a longer period of time, and here in school they began speaking in the language of the natives since 1918. during this period, since 1918 till today, for 4 times has the alphabet been changed, fact that speaks about a very complicated situation. During the last ten years, since 1989 schools began to use the Latin alphabet, but in 1992, after the war that took place on this territory there has been forcedly imposed the come back to the Cyrillic alphabet, later seven schools could obtain through fighting a half the right to activate on the basis on using the Latin alphabet and today again the same problem appeared, it is done everything possible not to give the possibility to these schools to activate, and the children of the natives study in Russian. At present, only 40% of native children study in their native language, the other 60% study in the Russian language. And out of those 40% only 7 schools activate on the basis on the Latin alphabet.
The other 32 Moldavian schools, as they call them, activate on the basis on the Cyrillic alphabet and 15 are mixed schools, but there are some more 47 schools). This regime does everything possible for the natives to degrade, to loose their national identity, to become people without nationality, without a past and a future. That is why this is a very painful problem. Besides the permanent pressure of the Tiraspol regime, one can feel here a total indifference of the government of Kishinau: a lot of talk, precaution in words, but in reality practically nothing has changed. Today is the same as ten years ago. I have seen some four times on television and heard on the radio that principles from Transnistrian schools have been invited.
There are 7 schools that activate on the basis of using the Latin alphabet, but nothing has changed ever since! Nothing! Moreover: the situation has worsened even more. Another very painful fact is that people had sacrificed their lives, they made efforts for the stability of the Republic of Moldova, and today they are if not completely forgotten – there is a support in words – but in reality there is no law concerning the participants and the veterans of war. They don’t have a statute, they are not even declared officially war participants, but we who have taken part to the war that we has fought with the 14th Army artillery battalion, the brave sons of the nation, who without weapons, with their bare hands, with the wish to defend their land, with the patriotic feeling have tried to do important things, regretfully, they couldn’t realize those aims, dreams, but they didn’t give up either. The regime that has been here and farther, with the entire wish, every enormous effort of that period, they didn’t succeed to extend on the territory. Moreover: 11 localities from Dubasari district among which 7 on the left side of the Nistru, at present are subordinated to the political power of Kishinau. All the others are subordinated to the regime of Tiraspol. Moreover: even some localities on the right side are subordinate to the regime of Tiraspol.