Tiraspol, January 25. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. In a conversation with the First Pridnestrovian TV Channel correspondent, the President of the PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky spoke about the situation in the Security Zone, history, and modern realities. The head of state recalled how the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian conflict began.
“The Second World War had ended, there was held the Nuremberg trials with its conclusions regarding Nazism and fascism. It would seem that this is enough, an end has been put in this disastrous history, in these phenomena called "Nazism" and "fascism". Yet less than 50 years have passed, when suddenly this nationalism grew right through the Soviet Union body and came out,” the head of state said.
Vadim Krasnoselsky stressed that Pridnestrovie does remember the Moldovan nationalists` appeals and slogans in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Russophobic, anti-Semitic - "Russians go behind the Dniester, Jews go in the Dniester"... We remember all this very well.
In the late 80s of the last century, the authorities of the Moldavian SSR, under pressure from nationalists, adopted laws on languages that violated the rights of non-titular nationalities. This caused protests in Pridnestrovie, where more than 60 percents were Russians and Ukrainians. Chisinau's refusal to guarantee equality and attempts to suppress Pridnestrovians` protests by force led to conflict escalation and armed confrontation.
