Word: moldavia
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...Moldavians, some armed with chains and knives, milled around the main square of rural Chimishliya last week waiting for orders to begin a civil war. "This is our land, our home, and we will fight for it," explained Ion Rosanu. "We have to protect the integrity of sovereign Moldavia." Rosanu and his companions were among thousands who mobilized to prevent the Gagauz, an ethnic Turkish minority, from seceding. When the Moldavians marched toward the Gagauz region, only the arrival of troops from the Soviet Interior Ministry kept the peace...
...demands of both subgroups were rejected by the Moldavian parliament, itself locked in a separatist struggle with the central Soviet government. The republic of 4.3 million, 65% of whom are native Moldavians, was historically a province of Romania but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Last June Moldavia declared its sovereignty; two months later the popularly elected parliament renamed the republic Moldova, adopted a flag similar to Romania's and declared Moldavian the official language...
...their red party cards. Soviet forces killed 20 demonstrators in Georgia. Fueled by anger over chronic unemployment, housing shortages and catastrophic damage to the environment, a spate of violent riots in Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia and Kazakhstan turned anti-Russian. With less bloodshed but equal vehemence, national movements in the Ukraine, Moldavia and Belorussia are demanding an end to Russian domination. Since December 1986, at least 408 people have died in clashes around the empire. No fewer than 60 million Soviet citizens live outside their home republics, and the ethnic upheavals have made 500,000 of them refugees...
Does he have a year? Paul Goble, deputy director of research at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, argues that if Gorbachev still intends to follow the path of perestroika and demokratizatsiya, he will have to allow the Baltics to break away by Christmas and possibly Moldavia not long thereafter. Some experts, such as Francois Heisbourg, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, believe Gorbachev will use military force as a last resort to hold things together. Western intelligence officers, however, say the army has intervened very reluctantly in ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia and will...
...Moldavia too was forcibly incorporated in the U.S.S.R. after the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact. Ethnically, linguistically and historically, Moldavia is part of Rumania, and some Moldavians now talk of reunification. Despite the justice of such an aspiration, achieving it would set the dangerous precedent of changing Europe's postwar borders. Hungarians, Poles, Germans and others all have potential territorial claims against their neighbors. The result of an epidemic of irredentism might be not merely political chaos but even...