On the tapes of news agencies against the backdrop of reports of a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify the aggressive Nazi regime on the territory of neighboring Ukraine, lonely, in a few lines, it is reported that the Ukrainian parliament adopted a law banning the Z and V symbols.

Probably, from the point of view of the Ukrainian deputies, there is some logic in that.

Moreover, so far there is no talk of switching to the Latin alphabet in Ukraine.

Though ideas such at different times were.

What can not be said about another neighboring post-Soviet state - Moldova.

There, in the nationalist frenzy of the 1990s, which eventually led to a violent conflict with Transnistria in 1992-1993, they transferred the beautiful Moldavian language to the Latin alphabet.

It is worth noting here that Moldovan in Latin is very similar to Romanian, although the Moldovan language is ancient and developed just in Cyrillic.

Strictly speaking, it is the Romanians who speak Moldovan, and not vice versa.

Then they changed the flag of Moldova to the Romanian one, adding the head of a cow with stars, the coat of arms of Stefan cel Mare to the front side.

The flag of the MSSR still remains in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

So, in Moldova, at the initiative of the ruling PAS party, Maia Sandu, the letters Z and V were banned as symbols of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, and at the same time, following the example of neighbors, the St. George ribbon.

The relevant amendments were adopted by the parliamentary majority in the final, third reading.

The deputies from the PCRM-PSRM opposition bloc voted against and even appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to assess the ban on wearing ribbons from the point of view of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, and most importantly, the repressive measures that prescribe punishment for such an accessory.

The head of the Moldovan government, Natalia Gavrilitsa, Maia Sandu's girlfriend, stated on national TV that "for wearing the St. George ribbon, people should be fined and sent to public works."

The fact that letters are banned in Chisinau simultaneously with Kiev is no longer surprising.

However, many oddities can arise, which in practice will turn into claims against people who, for example, have names and surnames beginning with the letter Z or V. The former prime minister, and now the president of the Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Moldova, Vasily Tarlev, spoke about this: “ My name, Vasily, begins with the letter V - what should I do?

Yes, I don't give a damn about those who made this decision.

The prohibition of the St. George ribbon is also stupidity, this symbol has long, deep roots.

Not today or tomorrow will be banned from celebrating May 9th.

And this holiday for me, my fathers and grandfathers, thanks to whom I live today, is a sacred date.

Let them bring ten criminal cases against me, but I will celebrate in prison.” 

Former President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin even called the ban a crime: “On Thursday, the ruling parliamentary majority committed a crime by banning the wearing of the St. George ribbon.”

Nevertheless, it is planned to put to a vote the proposal to cancel the Victory Day on May 9, parliamentarians Maia Sandu propose to celebrate the end of World War II on May 8 in a European way.

All these initiatives caused a serious resonance in the already divided Moldovan society.

In elections in Moldova in recent decades, half of the voters usually vote for pro-European forces, and the other half for pro-Russian ones, and simple manipulation and food packages give a slight advantage to one or the other.

On the issue of Victory Day, as shown by numerous media polls, most citizens express indignation and are going to go to the memorial to Soviet soldiers on May 9 - and always with a St. George ribbon on their chests.

That is, in the impulse to fulfill the common temnik, the Sandu Parliament formed another fundamental point of bifurcation of Moldovan politics.

Moreover, there are enough problems in the economy, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, and with neighboring Transnistria, where the flag of Russia flies next to the flag of the MSSR, and people freely speak and teach children in three languages: Russian, Moldovan and Ukrainian.

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is generally turning into a besieged fortress with half a million inhabitants.

Almost half are citizens of Russia.

In addition to the Russian peacekeeping contingent, the Task Force of Russian troops is deployed on the territory of the PMR, which ensures the security of the Soviet military depots in the village of Kolbasnoye.

How all this was not taken away and sold off in the 1990s, only “the Pridnestrovian battalion commander and General Lebed” know.

According to European experts, there are only 25,000 tons of various ammunition in those warehouses, not counting everything that can be used to load this ammunition.

Many servicemen of the Russian units in Transnistria are local citizens of the PMR with a Russian passport.

This 20-year practice greatly irritates the current Moldovan authorities.

The Moldovan Foreign Ministry recently angrily declared that it "condemns attempts to recruit Moldovan citizens from the Transnistrian region into the Russian army."

And according to the already emerging tradition, almost simultaneously, the British military department reproached the media that "Russia is trying to recruit soldiers from the Transnistrian region in order to increase the number of its troops." 

Sacramentally: coincidence?

I don't think.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.