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To: onyx

How did the Russians get to Transnistria, which is entirely surrounded by Ukraine on the east and Moldova on the west? They would have to cross Ukraine to get there from Russia.


6 posted on 03/29/2014 10:06:18 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

My question as well - I sure am getting a geography lesson


7 posted on 03/29/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Decrimminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: Fiji Hill

Moldova used to be a part of the Soviet Union. When the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, the Soviet 14th Guards Army was stranded in Transnistria. It took the side of Russian separatists and has remained there to this very day as peacekeepers to protect the predominantly Slavic population, which is Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.


11 posted on 03/29/2014 10:48:40 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fiji Hill

It’s complicated, like every thing else in Eastern Europe. Ukranians and Russians are the same ethnic group, for the most part. Ukraine is actally the original Russian homeland. Most Moldovans are essentially Romanians, non-Slavs. Transnistria is a predominately Slavic part of Moldova that indentifies with Russia.

Ukraine is to Russia what the South/Confederacy are/were to America, fast forwarded a few hundred years.


21 posted on 03/30/2014 12:24:45 AM PDT by Monmouth78
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