I certainly like Pridnestrovie. But maybe I’m crazy. Maybe I’m weird. Maybe I’m a total idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Fair enough.
Panic at the Moldovan Disco
Honestly, it mostly makes me laugh (but it also makes me a bit angry) when I read clickbait shit like Russia Perfecting Its Elections Interference Toolkit in Moldova.
The headline sets you up to hear about some really dastardly deeds being perpetrated by Russia, but the jock who wrote this sadly fails to deliver.
Myth #19: Transnistria uses plastic coins for money
Let’s call this one partially mythologized.
While it is technically true that Pridnestrovie has money that’s made out of plastic, what they’ve created is actually pretty amazing.
Myth #3: Transnistria Is a Communist Country
Nope, not Communist at all. Sorry!
Myth #10: You’re not allowed to speak Romanian in public in Transnistria
Not only have I heard many, many people speaking Romanian in public in Pridnestrovie, I’ve also done it myself. Nearly one-third of the people who live in Transnistria speak the language, so I don’t know where this rumor came from, but it is a persistent one.
Myth #1: The country is called Transnistria, Trans-Dniestr, or Transdniestria
Over the past 1,000 years, the area now known as Transnistria has had a lot of names, but none of them were ever “Transnistria” except for a brief period of time during World War 2 when it was under fascist occupation.
Prisoner 1282
Sometimes, I’m so busy that it’s a miracle that I remember to eat breakfast. Last week, I got a lovely email from one of the biggest chatbot companies in the world, telling me how much they loved my latest game. I say “latest” because I actually wrote and developed it about a year ago when…
