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Forward Union
22nd October 2010, 13:07
Jesus This is a serious blast from the past, I would have assumed it was vintage if it wasnt for the date of the video.

For those of you who don't know, Pridnestrovie is an unrecognised country between Moldova and Ukraine, it won it's independence in a conflict in 1991 but remains unrecognised by the international community. It has a population of about 600,000, a police, military, its own currency postal service, border agency etc.

Though, having done an 8000 page research project on the country and speaking to their Foreign Office I'm afraid to tell the resident Stalinists that the PMR is not a Socialist State, the Communist Party is the third largest and has never had a majority in parliament. It also claims repression under the PMR regime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9taXfPkMA
Nolan
22nd October 2010, 14:42
Quick, Sam_b, someone pointed out the remains of Soviet influence on modern politics!
Yazman
24th October 2010, 17:12
Quick, Sam_b, someone pointed out the remains of Soviet influence on modern politics!

Please do not make worthless posts like this in the Politics forum. If you are going to post here, make sure you make a meaningful contribution to the topic. Otherwise go to Chit Chat.

This constitutes a verbal warning.
Reznov
24th October 2010, 17:48
Is their a reason why they still retain the symbols and military/parades?

Just out of tradition or what?

(Also, what were the guns that the soldiers were marching with? And what was the one where one of the soldiers had a flag in it and looked like only he and a few others had those kind of guns?)
Q
24th October 2010, 18:14
Is their a reason why they still retain the symbols and military/parades?

Just out of tradition or what?

Out of a tradition to scare the people with the might of the state. They better think twice about any uprising.

... Wait.

This small strip of land only exists because Moldavia is too poor to do anything about it. This is a map of it, the red part being Pridnestrovies, also known as Transnistria:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Transnistria-map.png
Reznov
25th October 2010, 23:37
No one has any comments on this subject?

I'd expect there to be more.

Forward Union, you write that you wrote a paper on Transnistria, right?