The Moldovan precedent

When at the beginning of the ХХ century, following the results of the WWI, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated, Vlachs with Transylvanians and Moldavans were also among the liberated nations who received statehood. Three branches of the single nation reunited in one state. It is Interesting, the population of this state did not have a self-name. There was the nation, but there was no name. It was later invented, they were called Romanians – with an allusion to the Roman Empire, which included the lands of the Romanian ancestors – the Dacians, assimilated by the Romans. But the Romanians were not allowed to live peacefully. In 1940, the “great liberator” Joseph Stalin, by agreement with Adolf Hitler, started the WWII and chopped off part of the territory from Romania, creating the Moldavian SSR by joining the annexed Romanian Bessarabia to the lands of the Moldavian ASSR. The republic, which arose by the father’s of nations will, existed until 1990, but then disintegrated as a result of centrifugal events on the territory of the USSR, losing part of its territory recognized in the world.
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