Valeriu Chiveri, Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration, has openly admitted what we already knew: the economic strangulation of Transnistria, a region of half a million people, is deliberate.
The official said he understands how Transnistria’s economy operates and how the region is controlled. He also acknowledged that the authorities are deliberately dismantling this system.
“We understand how this mechanism works. That is precisely why we have also begun applying tax and economic measures to dismantle it in one way or another. We hope this will succeed. But as I have already said, when we undermine the regime’s economic base, this will allow us to make significant progress in the reintegration process,” the official said.
Tiraspol has already called these remarks an effective admission of economic warfare.
“Attempts to present the shutdown of enterprises, the loss of funding for social services, the destruction of jobs, and the loss of income for hundreds of thousands of Transnistrian families as a method of ‘settlement’ reveal the true nature of Chisinau’s destructive, illegitimate, and inhumane policy,” the Transnistrian region’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Mr. Chiveri has a peculiar idea of reintegration. In nature, this is how a boa constrictor operates. First, it squeezes its prey. Then it swallows it and slowly digests it. In Chiveri’s view, however, this is peaceful reintegration.
But Chiveri is wrong on this point, too. Even if this policy of “absorption by strangulation” succeeds, it cannot lead to the peaceful reintegration of one people. The region’s residents have suffered under the Sandu government, Chiveri, and others like them. Once they gain the right to vote, this government will face its end.
These fraudsters did not “mine” bridges to prevent Transnistrians from reaching polling stations for no reason.
