Moldova, on its 25th anniversary, is a sad country with a level of pessimism that reaches record highs from year to year. It is a country where people consider that things go worse, considers Dumitru Alaiba, a young man who studied and worked abroad, but who also tried to change things here, at home. In an interview for IPN given on the occasion of the Independence Day, he stated that if we had used these 25 years wiser, Moldova would have been different now.
“We should have cared more about the country rather than about the own person and own interests, the own party. We should have stolen less and should have sometimes had less fear and have done what was necessary for the common good, even if it seemed risky,” said Dumitru Alaiba.
He noted that the politicians were elected to work for the people, but they work to promote their own interests. “We reached a point when the main things are forgotten: they forgot where they get the money from, what they get money for and what for they exist in general. They imagine that they are a kind of boyars of the 21st century and this is a big problem and danger for us all,” he stated.
The young man said we should not shift the blame onto others for having poor living conditions in our country. “We should first of all blame those we ruled in our country. They made mistakes one after another and didn’t have the sincere wish to develop the country. They never hurried and always had time. It’s just to make such a simple deduction after 25 years of failures, with one step forward and two steps backward,” he stated, adding that someone developed the country, while others preferred to destroy it, robbing it year by year.
Dumitru Alaiba called on the country’s people not to believe those from power who tell them to wait and to prevent them from stealing our youth.
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” and the articles on the issue are published starting with July 18.
