Romania’s Foreign Minister, Bogdan Aurescu, is a world-class idiot.
First, during the NATO meeting in Bucharest at the end of November, Aurescu had a private chat with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba (pictured right at the top of this article) to ask Kuleba to outlaw the Moldovan language (🇷🇴). Yep.
You might remember that the Romanian government did the exact same thing last year.
Look, I don’t know what the hell Romania’s obsession is with suppressing the Moldovan language, but it is way past the point of being creepy. Ukraine is obviously in the middle of a war for its survival at the moment, so what the hell is the point of worrying about which language is used in a grand total of two schools in Odessa?
Ugh.
In far more widely reported news this week, Aurescu fucked up big-time by completely failing to negotiate with Austria. As a result, Austria voted against Romania joining the Schengen Zone (yet again).
Instead of owning up to his mistakes, Aurescu has been blaming Austria, and the pro-government press in Romania has been going hog wild with anti-Austrian slurs and calls to boycott Austrian businesses, etc.
Some idiot in Cluj even graffitied (🇷🇴) an Austrian bank with the word “Nazi,” as if that will change anything.
Meanwhile, even little old Moldova got in on the fun of punking Romania by getting some (almost) free electricity subsidized by the Romanian government and then turning around and signing a deal with Pridnestrovie to get their electricity from there after whining for three months about needing Romania’s help to gain “independence” from Russian energy.
So that’s at least three idiot moves in a month for Aurescu and Romania’s foreign relations ministry. Perhaps I’m the only one who remembers that Bogdan Aurescu was the first guy to welcome mega moron Adrian Nastase once Nastase got out of prison, so it’s hardly surprising that he’s this dumb.
At some point, I truly wonder when the people of Romania are going to get tired of the utter incompetence and colossal stupidity of their government, but we all know the answer – never.
It’s simply too late. Every Romanian with a functional brain has long since emigrated and/or sold out to their Empire masters, so it’s only gonna be when Romania is denuded of all of its trees and transformed into a lifeless desert that the last few remaining survivors might grow a spine and decide to do something about what was once a truly lovely country.
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Ah, yes, Romanians and Moldovans speak very different languages….that’s exactly why the Romanian language spoken in the eastern parts of the country is very similar to that spoken in the Republic of Moldova, including most of the words of Russian and Ukrainian origin that other commenters here speak of. That’s exactly why there is only one Romanian-Moldovan dictionary which appeared in Moldova and which even Moldovan historians, linguists, and anyone who speaks the language have strongly rejected. That’s exactly why Romanians and Moldovans can talk to each other without the aid of a translator or resorting to another language, even in the context of official governmental visits. That’s exactly why Moldovans expect to be instantly given Romanian citizenship the minute they set foot on Romanian soil, and why they expect Romania to step in and help them in case Russia turns its sights on them.
Look, I applaud you for the efforts you’ve made to learn Romanian and for creating this site, I really do, but you really need to look a bit more deeply into the historical context for this topic. Moldovan scholars highlighted the common language and ancestry with the population from the other Romanian territories (Wallachia and Transylvania) as early as the 16th or 17th century. In the mid-19th century, Wallachia and Moldova united with one another to become what would eventually be known as Romania. This unification was achieved through the election of the same ruler in both territories. Transylvania, as you know, joined in 1918, then a part of Moldova got gobbled up by the USSR as per Stalin’s wish. The USSR then sought to drill in the notion that the population in Moldova was not Romanian, but Moldovan, a supposedly different ethnic identity despite the languages being practically the same, far less different from each other than Quebec French is from Paris French, despite Moldova having willingly joined Wallachia as previously mentioned, despite having the same national poet, despite the customs and traditions being the same on both sides of the Prut river etc. This was done so as to further drive a wedge between Moldova and the rest of the Romanian territory in order to better cement the USSR’s grasp on it.
The reason why this “obsession with suppressing the Moldovan language” is that the “Moldovan language” does not exist. I repeat, it was not the result of the Moldovan people asserting their separate identity as a sovereign nation, but of the USSR’s political machinations and tendency to fuddle the national identities of the peoples it absorbed. The “Moldovan language” is plain Romanian, meaning that the people in Ukraine who speak it are a Romanian-speaking population, and for all the trouble that Ukraine is going through right now, the Romanian government has a greater duty towards – believe it or not – Romanian citizens and the Romanian-speaking communities living abroad, especially the one in the war zone. Another reason why there’s this whole obsession with getting Ukraine to acknowledge that the Moldovan-speaking population is not Moldovan-speaking, but Romanian-speaking is that, after the USSR crashed, the governments that led Ukraine continued to deny and repress their identity. What’s happening to Ukraine right now is extremely tragic, but it doesn’t excuse its past actions.
Given how the Romanian government has greatly helped Ukrainian refugees and sought to integrate them in Romanian society, even going so far as to ensure Ukrainian kids can continue their education in their native language in Romania, it is now extremely hypocritical of Ukraine to pass a law that directly affects the Romanian-speaking population in Ukraine, and it’s very hypocritical of Ukraine to claim it’s too busy focusing on its own issues to care about such problems when other countries have helped it withstand Russia even though the consequences were against their own interests.
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Go Fuck Yourself, Samuel Reames! Stop referring to yourself as romanian, you’re not. Just like American isn’t a language, jerk!
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Can you enlighten me on what the differences between the Romanian and Moldovan language are? I am dying to know. Because so far it sounds like you’re talking about an English language and an American or an Australian language.
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Go live in Republic of Moldova at least for a month or three and you will know the Difference between Romanian and the language spoken in the eastern part of Old Moldova(Bessarabia)
Stop making a fool of yourself fake nationalist wannabe
Republic of Moldova was intensively indoctrinated and its people Russified through language and customs.
Romanians and other ethnic minorities in Moldova speak a mixture of bad romanian, bad ukrainian and bad russian language a mixture basically like Pidgin
That’s the truth whether Romanians who live in Romania want to hear or not.
If our countries will unite in the future we will need a HIGH degree of tolerance from Romanian Government to INTEGRATE people who have a slightly different language even if we can understand some of it like 40-50%
DISCRIMINATION is not to be tolerated either against Moldovan Romanians or Ukrainians or Russian or other ethnic minorities.
We live in the 21st century era not in middle ages where a few modern romanians still seem to live mentally from time to time attaching to destitute toxic thoughts and manners.
They (Republic Moldovans)still speak in a lot of russian or ukrainian vocabulary which we do not understand.
BY THE WAY Aurescu is the guy who the press in Romanian caught he SLEEPING during an Official Governmental Session.
Just food for thought of the intricate Nepotism and Back Room dealings who forward Incompetent mediocre people who fear getting a real job in the Private Sector
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I tend to believe that you’re right for the most part but you might have missed some of the peculiarities of the linguistic evolution of the people in the eastern Moldavia, which may explain the more pronounced slavic character of their language. I’m not particularly familiar with the moldovan vernacular but I’m pretty close to the romanian language spoken in the northern Moldavia (in Romania proper that is). I know that there are many common words and expressions there of slavic, perhaps even slavonic origin which are not in use (anymore) in the literary romanian. I suspect that many of them actually just survived the purge of the “slavic” words from romanian language in the 19th century being kept in use as “regionalisms”. At that time eastern Moldavia had already been part of the Russian Empire for quite awhile and therefore was not subjected to this linguistic abuse.
Even phonologically the romanian spoken in the northern Moldavia is similar with eastern slavic languages and sometimes if you listen to it being spoken but can’t hear the words you can’t tell for sure whether what you’re hearing is romanian or russian (or ukrainian, I guess).
In other words, the slavic characteristics of the actual “moldovan” language might not be (only) a consequence of a more or less enforced or abusive “russification” as much as a manifestation of its unaltered ancestral character.
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I do not think that I meet such a low life like you.
You moron the problem with the Romanian language in Ukraine is that the same language is called Romanian in Bucovina and Moldovan in the south of R.Moldova (Bugrac)
And finally, why don’t you fuck yourself.
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Would you be willing to meet? I mean, hey, I’ll treat you to a chai or something.
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