Transnistria War: Moldova's Pro-Soviet Insurgency 

I am from Moldova I think I want to mention one very important thing. For everybody who frames this as an ethnic conflict that's barking up the wrong tree. We've lived together for centuries and we've never bickered we've always visited we have family in each other's countries there was never an ethnic tension or ethnic hate. This is a politically motivated conflict that was dictated and directed from Moscow. This conflict was imposed on us by Kremlin. And then Frozen also buy them.

Some time ago, at a conference, the Romanian president at the time, Traian Basescu, was asked by a Russian dignitary: we hear that Romania has plan to annex Moldova, what do you have to say about that. Basescu waddled over to the microphone, with a sh...cheese eating grin, from ear to ear, and says: I'd like the Russian dignitary to write this down: Romania, unlike Russia, has no experience in annexing other states....*mic drop*

As a citizen of the country you are making a video about, I would like to make few comments: - First. In the cases of serial killers, in order to identify other victims, you use the patterns to the murders you know it was commited to other in unresolved murders in the past, thus, linking those two. So, in the case of Russia, by applying the cases of Georgia and Ukraine to the case of Moldova, you can see a lot of similar patterns that were used in Moldova's case. I am talking about using some local dispute in order to punish the leadership of the country for their strategic decision. You have the same elements - mercenaries fighting for the separatists, russian proxies, armed "polite men" using babushkas as human shields and so on. - The constitution of Moldova in 1994 and still states that Moldova is a unitary country. For Gagauzia they offered a special autonomy. For Transnistria they offered few deals with different degrees of autonomy. By the time passing it became profitable for everyone the status quo. - the ones who ruled Tiraspol because they have their own gray area for shady business, the ones in Chișinău because they can offer a gateway for the shady business from Tiraspol, the ones in Kiev for the same reason as the ones in Chisinau. Profitable was also for Odessa, for obvious reasons. And off course a small degree of profit went to the community of international mediators that express concern untill the shit hits the fan and have to deliver weapons. I am talking about those that dream of putting in their CV „a dossier that is solved”, meanwhile, the way it is solved give you the worst possible outcome. - Moldova is not a model for frozen conflicts. The whole security situation in the moment is stable because the CEO of Sheriff company, the backbone of the separatist economy, have economical and corrupt interest in Ukraine and the West. At the moment, the current elite is in conflict with radical pro-russian, that does not understand why they are not fighting Ukrainians yet. They are not fighting Ukrainians because it is bad for business. However, I dont know how stable is this „architecture of security” for local businessman given the high fatality rate of pro Kremlin business-people as of lately. Bottom-line - the only reason for Transnistria to exist is just the corruption and contraband that was done for 30 years. FYI - close to 90% if not more, of the citizen living in Transnistria have Moldovan documents issued by authorities in Chisinau. They can move anywhere in Moldova, vote in the elections and be elected in the Parliament. There is no division among political lines (the region, politically and ideologically is no different than Balti or Comrat). There is no religious divide. In terms of ethnicity - the vast majority of the population in Transnistria are the same as in the rest of the country. So, why this problem exist? It is not because of a frozen conflict, but because it is profitable for everyone.

Can u do one on the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949?

Love hearing about Soviet and Russia conflicts. The Soviet Afghan and Georgian War videos left me wanting more! Great video

You should make video on Tajikistan civil war. Very unknown war

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The edge of empire 5:45 - Chapter 2 - End of empire 10:50 - Chapter 3 - Ignition points 14:05 - Chapter 4 - Burning bridges 18:25 - Chapter 5 - The unwinnable war 22:05 - Chapter 6 - Aftermath

Simon can you do one on the Greek civil war? 1944-1949! It’s very interesting how a country resisted the Italians and Germans so hard was plunged in to civil war. In Greece where Winston Churchill is considered a hero for most he has left as some scars in how he let the country down in the riots of Athens in December 1944. Hope you dive in to it with passion as enthousiasme like you always do! Respect!

Love that you are doing some more niched material from history, I hadn’t even heard of this war 🫣

Great content , would love to see some of the less talked about wars such as sino Vietnamese war

Good video as always and very appropriate timing. I wish my history teachers in high school were half as interesting as you.

That was a very interesting video. I would like to see more videos about lesser known wars like the Polish Lithuanian War or the Tajikistani Civil War.

It was not Russia that called the area Bessarabia! The name is given by the first ruler of the Romanian country (valahia), Basarab I...

Thiese are strange times indeed. I pray the war in Ukraine ends quickly and does not escalate to Transnistria, Moldova or anywhere else.

Good video 👍

*Please make a video on the Chechen wars, yugoslav wars, Nagorno Karabakh war.*

Thank you so much for making a video about my country's history, love your work 👍

I love this channel. So many conflicts I know so little about

Are you able to do the Servile Wars in ancient Rome? Alone there's probably not enough info for a video, but together they might be

Nice history lesson , and thanks from Romania

Love how Simon casually makes a Simpsons reference like we wouldn’t notice.

It used to be insurgency three decades ago now it is just a mafie state in Tiraspol. Imagine Russian oligarchs concentrated in a single family firm.

Great video. Solid content. God bless all people with peace and joy. Amen.

I'm a German but My grandmother was born in Romanian Bessarabia in 1919 therefore I'm also a Romanian citizen. I want reunification to happen at some point in my lifetime i'm sad that Ukraine was attacked by Russia but it could open an opportunity to finally become one country

I love how this script was written and how his Brain Blaze(Business Blaze) parts come out now

The whole of Basarabia and North Bucovina belongs with their Romanian brothers.

This was a good video, but it needed waaaaaaaayyyy more map views

Mistake at 23:35. Says the war of 1922, instead of 1992.

Long time no see simon

Interesting, good introduction into a situation very much overlooked that has become a very important issue. NOTE: 23:34 _"the Transnistria war of _*_1992",_* not *_"1922"._* NOTE to RU-vid on the "English (auto)" subtitles: I doubt that the names, the narrator mentions, are _"Gore"_ and 23:54 _"Dear Ass Ball."_ (and a few more).

Oh hey... I'm born, raised and living in Transnistria. Never expected that warographics would cover our country, let alone so well. Amazing work my man, you explain history better than all of the history teachers I've previously had, keep it up!

Excellent video 📹 But... no map of the actual region???

Bender is not the only European city named after a Futurama character. You're forgetting Fry, France.

This one came out great!

Glory to the moldavian-romanian heroes who fought for liberty and integrity of this land

it is worth noting that Moldova's current President, Maia Sandu, is quite easy to look at; and also not discernably evil.

Do an episode on the Warlord period in the 1920's and how it influenced Japan's attack on Manchuria in 1931 sparking WW2.

Can you do a video on the Battle of Blair Mountain in which the US Military had to called in to to quell a labor uprising of coal miners who were being abused by the coal company in 1921

Will you do the Balkan wars ?

Fire

The depicted Triumph Arc was built by the Russians after the Russo - Turkish wars at the end of the 19th century. This monument explains a lot about the local geo-politics.

what is the music that is used for the intros of warographics? It is eerely familiar.

Futurama, my favorite "adult" cartoon... luv that comment Simon

Chisinau is pronounced kishinau. Romanian is a Romance language, and as in Italian, ch represents the "k" sound.

How about the Seven Years War? It started 266 years ago today.

3:31 Before the creation of the Moldovan ASSR, there were comitets emultating those of the Basserbia.

Can we get one on the Battle of the Boyne?

The left guy from thumbnail, I thought that was Steven Seagal went bald😮

Maps? Good content guys but the no maps to show make it very hard to understand.

I must say I don’t really like how this video frames this conflict as fully ethnic (and also how it is very much pro one side ignoring some of the crimes of both sides), it was very much a political conflict, and I don’t know many Moldovan who are fully pro-Romania or pro-Russia practically everyone has family in both places and most people, (at least those that I know) are first and foremost Moldovan, and don’t really have a problem with any of the languages. And also I must say that unlike what you would think travel between Moldova and Transnistria is fairly easy and except the uneasy feeling of seeing all the communist symbols and such while walking around it’s pretty much the same.

You should cover the Sino-Indian war.

Endless dominos, falling in endless order, one ancient event becoming a pre modern event, becoming an early modern event, an event for our grandparents, our parents, and now to us. I wish one day will come soon when the people tossed in the tide of history will be able to live in peace with themselves and each other. Romanians, Gaugauz, Moldovans, Russians. Are we all not more similar than we shall ever be different? Are we not brothers?

Could you do a video on the English civil war?

Wikipedia has most of toponyms transcribed to IPA, not confusing Dniester (NEE-stər) with DNIPER, which is a river nearby, would make your videos a lot better with little effort

LOL, I imagine Simon being like, "Puppet? what are you talking about?" it's Star Wars, Big Brains get it.

Maybe you can do the 1 year war between The Kingdom of Romania and Hungary?

Now do all the wars between denmark and sweden

Great Yoda reference!!

Some maps, as well as images you are talking about (ex 15:25) would be appreciated

Fancy doing visual politic and Simons request for a raise?

Come on, that geezer on the title picture has to be Flash Gordon's nemesis, the infamous 'Ming the Merciless'.

There is a Randy Savage GEOGRAPHICS EPISODE?! 😉👌

So did all the footage of these events vanish in a puff of smoke as well?

Love the content fact boy, but could we have more recent wars please, battles within larger wars ect, by the way, best history by far 😁

So this video might get recommended a bit more after today

The Bender River? Yeah, they're gonna have to change that...

Has Simon watched Futurama or is that just another one of those references his writer inserted that went over his head again 😅

Why are comments not visible? Is Simon deleting them?

It was a really confusing and rather dangerous time for western politics and diplomacy. The threat of nuclear capabilities spreading out resulted in western countries basically allowing and even supporting Russia to take any action they felt necessary.

WTF I looked at the thumbnail and was like "that Segal?"

Warographics videos about WWII pacific battles please! Pearl Harbor, Midway, Iwo Jima, ect.

Have you done the abakhasnian war of the 1990s?

Please visit Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!

how abought a video on Continuation War?

Please for the love of God look up how to say Dnieper and Dniester.

Russia created 2 separatis respublics in georgia too.

This video is even more relevant today.. OCT/6/2023

Simon, while talking, can you at least show a map of the area

Please do the bosnian war and yugoslav wars

Why does the guy in the thumbnail look like Seagal to me?

6:56 Did someone say "Great Reset"?

Well you know what they say The sun rises Grass grows And Russia colonises

Please do one involving the dog meat general

hola chaps i an british andi just moved here after a yes theory video i watched and i love it, pmr baby xxx

Skips over Stalin's annexation of Bessarabia in 1940.

I still don't understand what they were fighting over

I suggest the War of 1812.

Osowiec Fort please.

Transnistria deserves to decide for itself

With the war on Ukraine raging right now Moldova is worried that a Russian backed separatists movement will start just like the Donbas region in Ukrainian soil.

23:34 You meant 1992, not 1922.

There seems to have been (possibly ongoing still) multiple attacks including on infrastructure, along the lines of this division. Most likely Russian military or Russian separatist forces I assume, covertly trying to instigate a revival of hot conflict, to destabilize the area and "justify" sending more Russian forces there to cut off the border with Ukraine. Moldovan and Transnistrian officials have both been quick to report they neither have nor want anything to do with it, they seek no conflict, and queries down the official ranks and local known militias have all turned up empty.

Too much face-to-camera. Need more maps.

what's the piano cover?

"Ming the Merciless" is still alive!!! lol.

my romanian girlfriend who's also a palm reader, said that I have the most beautiful palms she ever seen. Also, on Friday I'll be hit by a train

Wow, sounds like a very real country to me.

Can won be done on the Iran - Iraq war, very brutal, very sad

"protect russian speakers". something never change. *chuckles

Why the swearing in a documentary??