The opposition Christian Democratic People’s Party in the Moldovan parliament has proposed a resolution commemorating and condemning the Holodomor. Its Romanian language version appears below. I am waiting for the translation which sooner or later will become available. The number of dead is presented as being at more than 7 million. It is noted, among other things, that “it was a method of mass destruction through starvation, practiced by the Bolshevik regime, which was attempting to destroy the peasantry as a basis of the Ukrainian people, the weakening of the capacity of resistance and of the willpower for liberty and state independence of the Ukrainians” (“a fost o metoda de nimicire in masa prin infometare, practicata de regimul bolsevic, care urmarea distrugerea taranimii ca temelie a poporului ucrainean, slabirea capacitatii de rezistenta si a vointei de libertate si independenta statala a ucrainenilor. ..”). I don’t expect the Communist majority in the Moldovan parliament to accept it, but the gesture is praiseworthy nevertheless. This has happened in the past too. What I hopw would happen is for Ukrainians and Ukrainian-North Americans to observe who is supporting this resolution (the oppositiion) and who is opposing it (the Communists).
Ohryzko is starting to prop up the Moldovan Communists (again) and this is getting on my nerves. It is simply not Ukraine’s business to tell Romania that it should sign a basic treaty and a frontier treaty with Moldova (an idea promoted only by the Communists and the small Russophone parties). I also recall that one of the reasons why some people in Romania did not want Romania to sign a basic treaty with Ukraine in 1997 was because then Ukraine would tell Romania to do the same with Moldova. The basic treaty with Ukraine was, of course, a good idea, but this point of the critics has proven to be correct. Basescu’s reaction to Ohryzko’s requests has not been polite (for example, the former sailor Basescu compared it privately to how the Japanese shogun accepted a gift from Commondore Perry’s Americans and named it “the gift of the inferior toward the superior”), but he was 100% provoked. And I fail to see any gratitude whatsoever from official Kyiv for Romania’s going “the extra mile” for a MAP for Ukraine, except, perhaps, in the fact that Ohryzko was propping up the Moldovan Communists privately before the Bucharest summit and publicly only after the summit. Ohryzko was born on April 1, 1956 (see http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Volodymyr_ Ohryzko ) and his diplomacy in relation to Romania and Moldova is a joke.
I.A. Rus
