Countries that condemned the crimes of the Communist regime earlier, when URSS collapsed, are more developed today, thinks Anatol Taranu, head of the Institute of Political Analysis and Consultancy Politicon. According to him, the situation in a country is directly related to its ideology, Info-Prim Neo reports. Guest at the Replica talk-show on Prime TV, Anatol Taranu declared that the decision to condemn the totalitarian Communist regime was awaited by the Moldovan society for over 20 years. He thinks that the MPs did justice by voting this decision and forbidding the Communist symbols the hammer and the sickle and expects this justice to be continued by the parliamentarians through their further actions. Taranu finds that the decision was taken too late, not too early. Dumitru Diacov, head of the Democrat group in the Parliament, said during the same show that there had been many discussions concerning this bill. The idea has been there for years, but only now the proper circumstances arose. “Initially, I was against this decision. I didn’t want to fuel the Communists’ propaganda. However, the actions of the Communist group during this year led to our mobilization to vote this bill”, said Dumitru Diacov. Ion Hadarca, leader of the Liberal group, which came up with the initiative, argued that the Communists themselves were the reason why this decision was voted. “The Parliament was about to be dissolved because of these Communists. We don’t want to break with the opposition, we just want true opposition. This is chance for the opposition to show it is able to break with the past”, the Liberal leader declared in Parliament. Questioned whether this wasn’t an attempt to punish the Communists’ Party, the PLDM group leader Valeriu Strelet answered that the party wasn’t forbidden as a political entity. It can continue its activity if it respects the laws and speculation about this being retaliation is only speculation. The MPs added that the Communists’ Party already prepared alternative symbols to replace the forbidden ones. They referred to the red-blue bicolor flag used by the Communists during several manifestations. At the last meeting of the spring-summer session, the Parliament in Chisinau adopted a bill regarding the condemnation of the totalitarian Communist regime and forbade the use of its symbols in political purposes.