I already pointed out how the government-run newspaper Moldova Suverana equated the protesters / rioters on April 7th with fascist Romanians retaking Chisinau in 1941. Now I have seen the flip side of this exaggeration of historical parallels, in a message sent around a few days ago by an opposition activist:
The Moldovan state authorities' violence against protesters is without precedent. Unlawful arrests, preventing access to a lawyer, torture, sexual abuse towards arrested young women are comparable only with the Soviet times in 1940s, when the country was militarily incorporated in the USSR along with the Baltic States.
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Boy oh boy, you guys got the name alredy, grapes of wrath, but seems like it wont stick. It might be remembered as the twit revolution though.
A whole different perspective here:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13140
Anon, "grapes of wrath," I like it. Not sure what you mean by "you guys," though, as I think I made clear in an earlier post (not that I expect you to have read everything here exhaustively), I just came up with the name off the top of my head as a tag to aggregate posts on the events in MD.
Judging from your comment and the link you posted (whoever wrote that article has WAY too much time on their hands), you think this was some sort of attempted "color revolution," coordinated by the West. Having talked to lots of people there, I'm pretty confident in saying that you're wrong about that, notwithstanding that there is a lot that remains unknown about what went down in Chisinau a few weeks ago.
Also, the author of the article you linked to makes a mistake commonly made by certain external observers and some local elites: presuming that Moldova's problems (and their solutions) result from some sort of geopolitical conflict (and that external forces hold the key to potential compromise). The real problems are local - extreme brain drain and a leadership deficit, an economy dependent on remittances, a conflict which has been kept alive not only by Russia but by local elites who profit from it, etc.
Finally, WTF is the author of said article (the link is in your comment above if anyone cares to check it out) talking about when referring to the 2005 "attempt at a color revolution in Uzbekistan"? Andijan? That kind of statement suggests the author is not to be taken seriously and is someone who just wants to lay the blame for anything bad that happens in the post-Soviet space at the foot of the "so-called West" and suggest that salvation for these countries lies in their "organic affiliations, Russia and Eurasia." You can peddle that BS somewhere else.
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