"Moldovans are Romanians! We Russians bestowed on them the name of Moldovans, but they are Romanians!" The statement belongs to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR, nationalist), and was made during an interview with Russian television, Agerpres reports.
The Russian politician's statement is quite surprising, especially for Philo-Russians and lovers of Russia in Moldova. For decades, the Moldovan pro-Russians tried to promote the so-called Moldovanist current, whose stated purpose is to alter the cultural, linguistic and spiritual cohesion of the Romanians on both sides of the Prut, added the source. Vladimir Zhirinovsky is known as a nationalist eccentric politician who drives away from usual patterns, but his statement clearly fights back the Moldovenism ridiculous theory, which have tried to brainwash the population of Bessarabia for a long time, timpul.md writes.