Hurrah, you have some kind of future!

[topum]

This billboard says "Moldova has a future" ("are" is "has" in Romanian). In Moldova this is optimistic enough to be an election campaign slogan. It seems though that most Moldovans do not believe it anymore.



If I were Orange I would try to put this just next to these billboards:

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

What do you think it is about Moldova particularly that makes it feel like it might be a country without a future?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ethnically, culturally and language-wise they are Romanians and Russians (minority concentrated in self-proclaimed Transnistria), they do not have a separate identity. More than half of them are citizens of either Romania (EU) or Russia already, way more than half of the population able to work live and work in either EU (Romanians) or Russia (Moscow) already. The country is completely bankrupt and incredibly corrupt. It is being pawned in the NATO - Russia game all the time and is neither here nor there, which suffocates it economically (cannot trade with either the EU nor Russia). They will fold back into Romania sooner or later. Half of Moldova is still a province of Romania, the part that is independent was chopped off by the Soviets after WWII and became independent after the Soviet Union collapsed. They did not reunite with Romania then because Romania was under Chaushesku itself (or just out), later Romania joined NATO and Russia was not happy about any talk of Moldova joining Romania and therefore NATO.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. So not just that the country is economically unsustainable but there are incentives to it merging with a neighbour too.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, it looks like their independence was just an accident.