When the #USSR disintegrated, #Transnistria was torn from #Moldova. A thin strip of land on the #Dniester River with #Ukraine on the other side, dominated by old #SovietUnion military depots, it has remained in limbo since the early 1990s, unrecognized by most of the world, a forgotten backwater, similar to #Kaliningrad, as an outpost of #Russian #imperialism and #colonialism
Anyway, with #Russia bogged down in Ukraine, watch how this #Moldovan handles the "border guards" 🤭 :
@benroyce Same year, #Russia tried a similar strategy to undermine the independence of #Lithuania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_OMON_assaults_on_Lithuanian_border_posts
There wasn't a natural border like the #Dniester river, there wasn't an underlying ethnic tension to exploit, there was a lot more attention of the West focused on the Baltic states, and after the failed #KGB putsch in August 1991 they gave up.
absolutely correct
changed "broke away from" to "was torn from"
language matters
thank you dmitry
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