Moldova back under the communists?

[New Tolerance]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/co...les/3038982.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/3038982.stm)


Mr Voronin became president after the Communists swept back to power in elections early in 2001, ending a decade of largely ineffectual reformist government.

He accused his predecessors of having reduced Moldova to dire poverty and pledged to introduce "professional and technocratic" government in which ability would count for more than political affiliation. He also promised to tackle corruption.

The president said he would avoid what he called "a central Asian regime of personality cults" and seek to build "modern socialism", forging closer ties with Russia and increasing the role of the state in the economy. The rebuilding of bridges with Moscow has since led to opposition protests as has the grinding poverty in which Moldovans continue to eke out an existence.

A former bakery director, Mr Voronin was born in 1941. He rose through the ranks of the Communist Party and was briefly Soviet-era interior minister at the end of the 1980s and prime minister at the end of the 1990s.



Interesting...

[VukBZ2005]

I really wonder why are they calling themselves "Communists" anyway? They
should be calling themselves Socialists - that's who they really are...

[BOZG]

I work with a few Moldovan guys, they're quite reactionary though, completely opposed to communism.

[h&s]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40447000/jpg/_40447541_transd203.jpg
God I hate these damn Stalinists.
And I hate the way we are all depicted as Stalininsts. I&#39;ve just been looking round the BBC&#39;s stuff on the USSR and &#39;Communism&#39; and it turn out there is absolutly no independance at all on the subject. I expected more from the Beeb... <_<

[Mao Zhe Xi Wan Sui]

That picture is taken in the Trans-Dniester Republic. It&#39;s a seperatist de-facto independant mafia-"communist" nation between the dneister river and the Ukrainian border. The Moldovan president is&#39;nt a communnist. All the leades of the former SSR&#39;s were members of the COmmunist party, but after the Union fell most communist parties just changed there name. The only thing special about Moldova is that it didn&#39;t

[h&s]

Oh right, I didn&#39;t know that. Back to the subject of the re-emergance of &#39;communism&#39; in Eastern Europe what do people here know about Belarus? I heard that their leader has developed a rather Stalinist streak, and has put out a referrendum that would effectivly let him rule for life. He has renamed Independance Square &#39;Lenin Square&#39; and apparently the secret police scilences opposition parties. The only info I have was from the Times, so please fill me in...

[Mao Zhe Xi Wan Sui]

Belarus is really the last one-man dictatorship in Europe. They kept a lot of their Soviet iconography, as you can see.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/kra...zda/belarus.bmp (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/krasnayasvezda/belarus.bmp)

The belarussians, like all other former SSRs adopted the traditional pre-soviet flag, but then when the new president came in he changed it.

[cathatonix]

Alexander Lukasjenko is getting a lot of shit from west because he refuse to sell all the state owned companies to private ownership. Western capitalists can&#39;t accept that one single country doesn&#39;t get commercialized. But I guess he&#39;s a real asshole anyway(?). He got 77% of the votes in the referendum and of course every media screams that he was cheating.
But so they said about Venezuela too.
And how about Bush? Is he less of a cheater? Well, he got the money and the media to cover up for him. Thanks Fox and Murdoch.