Yesterday, on 21st of May 2023, a huge meeting took place in the center of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, my country. Writing about it here because I know that Newgrounds is a mostly American platform, with people that do not know about events in this part of the world or crimes that were never written in their history books. This event isn't about European Union alone, which is also a thing of this world, and as all things it has its flaws too, this event is a middle finger to the criminal country that has been selfishly pillaging and manipulating our land for hundreds of years.

In 1918 the regions of Moldova, Basarabia (Bessarabia, current R. of Moldova), Bucovina, Transilvania (Transylvania), Maramureș, Banat, Crișana, Muntenia (Wallachia), Dobrogea and Oltenia united and formed Romania as a country, for the first time in history all Romanians were united. The most relevant parts were Moldova, Muntenia and Transilvania, Moldova as a region was formed by Moldova itself, Bessarabia (slavic name given by the eastern problem) and Bucovina, it was called Principatul Moldovei (Principality of Moldova).

It did not last long, during World War 2 Romania was attacked by 2 territory hungry empires from both sides and for the rest of the war fought to keep its land intact, changing allies in order to achieve its goal, it did not need foreign land. The first territory to be taken was Bessarabia, and that is when one of the biggest terrors of our history started.

It is not the current leader that makes that country evil, the current guy is just cosplaying the devil from ww2, the one that was worse than the Austrian, or the Italian, or the Japanese, the one that did not stop at slaughtering other nations, but even did it with his own people.

With my region as prisoner of this empire we have been exposed to horrible crimes, some of those are:

• Deportations of Moldovan Romanians to Siberia, especially intellectuals, but also people that opposed the new regime. Those people were transported through cold trains for days in a row without food and dropped in the middle of Siberia left to survive by themselves.
• Executions.
• Imprisonment in gulags, inhumane prisons
• Cultural genocide. They brought their people back in the places of the intellectuals and city people that were deported. They considered their language to be superior, humane, while we spoke an "animal language". Romanian speakers were discriminated in cities, so they had to learn their barbaric language to survive. Books were burnt, banned, people that dared to speak or write the truth were punished.
• Killing of identity and brainwashing. They invented the "Moldovan language" and told us that we do not speak Romanian, we are not the same as Romania, they are the enemy that assimilated us. It is true that "Moldovan" was mentioned as a language in older writings, but every single time they were used as synonyms to the Romanian language knowingly by the authors. We only have a different accent, not a different language. We are co-founders of Romania, a country in which we shared a language and culture with other Romanians. They still go with this rhetoric nowadays and sadly some people here are still brainwashed nowadays.
• Didn't allow us to leave. You know a country is bad when it does not allow its citizens to freely leave, like North Korea nowadays. Some people tried their luck to escape to Romania, but were killed, rarely they succeeded in leaving the country.
• The Holodomor, unlike Holocaust, is not commonly taught in today's world. It was genocide through forced starvation that mostly affected Ukraine and took the lives of 7 to 10 million citizens, but also affected parts of today's Moldova, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

and many many more.

Another crime it committed, this time to Romania, was theft. During WW1 the Queen of Romania wanted to keep the country's treasury safe from possible invaders, so she sent the treasury to the Tsar so he guards it until the war ends. It was about 100 tons of gold from several banks and personal treasures, cultural trophies like paintings, irreplaceable documents and so on. The animals, with the bald man that they still worship nowadays, took down their own Tsar and refused to return what is not theirs. That is lifechanging amounts of money that would have benefitted the infrastructure of the country and made it as modern as other Western Countries in today's world, instead a big part of the country still lives in poverty.

The union also sabotaged my country by illegally exchanging territories between it and Ukraine. The south of Bessarabia which was also our exit to the sea and Northern Bucovina, also called Cernăuți, was given to Ukraine, while we received a slice that hugged our border that is nowadays called transnistria, a previously overly radicalized and indoctrinated time bomb used strategically to keep us under their sword. After the union fell, the Romanian language was once again declared the official language of our country, which enraged entitled guests and made them start a war against us, claiming our land as theirs. The war was supported by the legal descendent of the union, which sent unimaginable amounts of munition and equipment as support and 1500 soldiers, which overwhelms such a small country that was kept in poverty by the same people. Ever since they have stayed there, threatening us with genocide repeatedly, claiming that they own us, that we are their belongings, sending funds to puppet politicians, fiddling with our elections, not allowing us to improve our country, not being allowed to unite with our origin country, not being allowed to join the EU, scaring investors away, spreading propaganda...

In 2020 we have managed to get rid of our last puppet president, in 2021 we managed to get rid of our last puppet government. While the tyrants threatened us with death again, increasing the gas prices to amounts that 95% of the country could not afford, leaving some to die in the cold of the winter, Romania and EU offered us humanitarian aid, shared energy sources with us, saved the lives of tens of thousands of people. One side helps while the other offers worse than nothing and gets surprised when no one wants to be associated with them.

I have been given a bad start in life by being born in this country that has been pillaged and destroyed by those beasts for such a long time. My parents, grandparents and great grandparents lived miserable lives through poverty, censorship and fear. My great grandfathers had everything taken from them by the government, a current village next to the capital is called after them: "Gratiesti", my family name being "Grati". I had to move out 5 years ago, at 15 years old, to receive a better education in Romania, lived in a commie block dorm with 2 people in the same tiny room. Despite the lack of great conditions Romania has embraced me and offered me an education, a small but helpful monetary aid, its people have treated me more like family than my own Moldovans that are made to act as wild wolves from the conditions that they live in. I finally belonged somewhere. My family saved money for their entire lives to offer me a good college education, money that lost a big part of their value due to the inflation caused by their war. The money they gathered might seem small for some, as salaries in civilized countries are easily 10 times higher.

Yesterday, on 21st of May 2023, over 75000 people gathered in the center of Chisinau, the capital of my country, to tell the EU that the propaganda of evilmakers does not represent our country, those people were not paid to come there, as they are in the fake small protests of the socialist/communist party. People came by themselves, in their own cars, on foot, not gathered in busses by some political agent that promised them 10$. Moldovans from foreign countries came back to visit just for this, and let me mention the fact that there are very few flights to my country, also because of this war, most have to fly to Romania and come through other means to Chisinau. I will have to do the same in one month when I return home for the summer holiday. My father went there with some of my uncles, I am proud of him.

We want freedom, we do not want to fear for our lives, we do not want to continue to be bullied by a tyrannical country, I believe we have the right to decide what is right for our country, by ourselves. I am Romanian and my two Romanian passports should be just one, I have double citizenship for a single citizenship. I don't want my descendants to go through the struggles that I did growing up in my country. I believe my little cousin should have the same opportunities as the kids from Germany, US, France or Sweden.