The hundreds of people who took part in the March of Stephan the Great reached Ungheni town, where they rebuilt the Flower Bridge of the start of the 1990s, when the participants pleaded for Moldova’s union with Romania. The marchers crossed the bridge that connects the two banks of the Prut and then a group of them headed for Bucharest, where they will meet with unionists from Romania in the University Square on July 12, IPN reports.
The participants chanted “Romania didn’t have a border on the Prut”, “Bessarabia is Romanian land”, “Union”, “Bessarabia is Romania”, “Our language is the only master”, “Long live Moldova, Ardeal and Tara Romaneasca”, “Great Romania, old borders”, “Long live Great Romania”.
They sang patriotic songs and were welcomed by unionists from Romania, who hugged them and chanted, for their part, “Welcome home, brothers”.
Tudor Ungureanu, folk music singer and leader of the ensemble “Stefan Voda”, told those attending that he went through the customs post with tears in his eyes and it is a shame that the brothers must present all kinds of documents to reach home. He voiced hope that a generation that will manage to take Bessarabia home, in Romania, is now growing in Moldova.
The event commenced on July 5, when a unionist demonstration called the Great National Assembly was staged in central Chisinau. From there, hundreds of people went on a march towards the border with Romania to seek union.
