Word: moldavia
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...several hundred thousand ethnic Germans are still in Poland and 200,000 in Rumania. More than a million Poles find themselves inside the Soviet Union. About 1.7 million Hungarians live in Rumania, and a few hundred thousand more in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. There are 2 million Rumanians in Soviet Moldavia and an unknown number in the Ukraine...
...east lies the Soviet republic of Moldavia, which Stalin created in 1940, when he annexed Bessarabia in a deal with Hitler. During the years when Ceausescu kept his people hungry and cold to sell food and fuel abroad, there was little reason for the 2 million Rumanians on the Soviet side of the border to long for home. Now, with democratic elections scheduled for April, some Moldavians have called for reunification with Rumania. Meanwhile, Rumania's newly recreated National Peasant Party has called for the return of the lost territory. To deflect just such demands, Moscow promised it would open...
...nation is divided over issues of language, culture, politics and religion, it is united in its dissatisfaction with economic problems. As goes Lithuania, so might go other republics -- thus inviting a military crackdown and destroying perestroika. "If even the slightest suppression occurs, or a misunderstanding, say, in Estonia or Moldavia," Gorbachev warned, "it spills over to the rest of the country...
...needed to fuel economic recovery. The gesture of goodwill was combined with a hastily arranged visit to Bucharest on Saturday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Moscow's solicitousness may be attributed to a desire to quell the discontent of ethnic Rumanians in the Soviet republic of Moldavia, a region Stalin annexed from Rumania in 1940. Now that Ceausescu is gone, the Kremlin has every reason to expect that secessionist fervor will be rekindled. Evidently Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes Bucharest can be bribed not to fan the flames -- proof, if any were needed, that the road to reconstruction...
...even the slightest suppression occurs, or misunderstanding, some-where in Estonia or Moldavia, it spills over into the rest of the country," he said...