Moldova: thousands protest against communist vote rigging

[yoshimaroka]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7987608.stm

Demonstrators in Moldova have attacked the country's parliament in protest at the victory of the governing Communist Party in Sunday's general election.

 

[Uriel999]

crazy, I got a buddy in the peace corps in moldova...

 

[sailor]

I hope it`s not gonna be one of those "revolutions" where it turns out George Soros and State Department were behind it.

 

[decatren]

probably is one of those. apparently that party who won is very pro Russia.

 

[Zolah]

What little I've read on the subject places blame on Romanian influences stirring trouble, I'm too ignorant on the subject to possibly give an opinion, last week I had to look Moldova up on Google Earth because I wasn't entirely sure where it was and that was weirdly before these recent troubles hit the news.

 

[sailor]

Well I know a little bit about the general political situation there. Vladimir Voronin, the leader of the Communists is an ethnic Russian, but the politics of his party are not really pro-Russian. The party is actually mildly pro-EU and wants to join the EU eventually, for example it was going to sign a peace agreement with its break-away region Transnistria in 2004 or thereabouts after Russia brokered the deal, but they backed away from it at the last moment at the urging of the EU. So basicaly they sacrificed their relations with Russia for their relations with the EU.

But it could be that the Communists have been betrayed now by the West for not being sufficiently pro-West. This isn`t really anything new. For example in Georgia Shevarnadze was overthrown in the Rose revolution albeit he was moderatly pro-Western. For being seen as innefficient and not quite pro-Western enough.

 

[muzzled dogg]

i thought that was a fictional country that murray rothbard made up

 

[james1906]

I wouldn't be surprised if the EU has a plan to fold Moldova into Romania.

 

[Barackistan]

You better watch out for those Transnistrians. They are uber-communist and have a company, called "Sheriff" that is owned by former KGB agents who own every gas station and convenience store in the country. They even own a 4-star hotel and a football club.

Moldova is just a weird place if you ask me. Plus the east of the country is very sympathetic towards Soviet ideals.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Transnistria

 

[sailor]

You better watch out for those Transnistrians. They are uber-communist and have a company, called "Sheriff" that is owned by former KGB agents who own every gas station and convenience store in the country. They even own a 4-star hotel and a football club.

Then it is obviously not "uber-communist", but instead has a very brazen corporatist system.

 

[youngbuck]

I hope it`s not gonna be one of those "revolutions" where it turns out George Soros and State Department were behind it.

You can, indeed, safely assume the State Department had/has something to do with this. Can't our gov't just leave people alone, everywhere?