The Republic of Moldova is independent on paper, but in reality it is not, because it is not independent financially and has foreign armies on its territory. In an article published by IPN, composer Eugen Doga said the patriotism about which they speak so often means homeland that has special dimensions, a community, a language that unites all the ethnic groups.
According to the master, political stability is firstly needed for the purpose. Our elected officials may ultimately become tired of struggles for seats and bank counters. There should be decent living standards, at least at the level of the neighboring states. The spirit should have freedom as the people are often ready to reject everything else in favor of this so as to be able to sing, to speak, to feel free at home, to be sure that they are masters at home. They should have some poles placed in their front for the future. These poles can be a program for the future worked out with society, not in secret, after midnight.
Eugen Doga would like the country’s Independence to be ‘filled’ with concrete content so that we are really independent and do not have foreign armies on out territory, are not dependent on poverty and foreign information channels. “Over 30 TV channels from outside disseminate information to our detriment and there are only two national channels. They tell us that there is no embargo on Moldovan products and that this is not the 14th Army, but something else and that the native people are not drafted into this army. How can we be independent? This land belongs to me to and I care about the fate of the people who live here. So, it is my fate too,” he stated.
In ten years, the Republic of Moldova will yet exist. “We are an abandoned field, with weeds and thorns. We need a tractor with a large plow that will take out that healthy land. We have incomparable black earth and also good spiritual, genetic backgrounds. We have a lot of good people, but these are dispersed. There are many good things of which we can be proud, but they are under those weeds,” concluded the artist.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the declaration of Moldova’s Independence, IPN News Agency decided to depict the portrait of the current Republic of Moldova. For the purpose, it provoked a number of people, including state officials, politicians, businessmen, civil rights activists and persons without posts and titles, but who have what to say. The generic picture is called “Thoughts about and for Moldova”. The articles started to be published on July 18.
