Archpriest Petru Buburuz, consultant of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church, who blessed the first Great National Assembly in Chisinau on August 27, 1989, is convinced that on August 27, 1991, there was signed the Act of Independence from Romania, not from the USSR. “It turned out that we managed to obtain independence from Romania and, at the instructions of the authorities, headed for the Kremlin, towards which all the presidents of Moldova after the Independence look,” Petru Buburuz has told Info-Prim Neo. The archpriest hopes that God will do so that the Romanians from the two banks of the Prut will come together again to form a nation, a Church, a faith, a hope. He says that during the 17 years of independence, but especially during the Communist government, the administration of the country turned its back to the people and to their problems, caring only about the veterans of the Soviet army and security. “We won independence, but not we but the enemies of the people enjoyed it. These are the governors that are forced and threaten and we continue to be the slaves of the Russian occupation,” Petru Buburuz said. According to him, the great battle between the evil and the good will take place before the elections and the Independence will be used for wicked goals by those that continue to dream of subduing the people. Seventeen years ago, on August 27, 1991, priest Petru Buburuz demanded in the Great National Assembly Square that the date of the public holiday is changed, but the MPs did not take account of the priest’s argument that the Funeral Service of Saint Marry is held on that day, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin holiday. Priests say that August 27 is a Lent day and the Funeral Service of Saint Marry is held in all Moldova’s churches, but the people celebrate, dance, amuse themselves and enjoy fireworks. When one of the most important and beautiful services is held in the God’s Birth Cathedral, several meters further the people dance under the music amplified by tens of thousands of watts, drink alcoholic beverages, eat what is not allowed during the Lent, quarrel, using often the Cathedral’s walls as toilet. They say that owing to this profanation, Moldova remained, as in the Communist époque, in a deep materialistic darkness, while the precipice between the Great National Assembly of August 27, 1991 and the Moldovan authorities remained impassable.