Comments by "Шум Шумов" (@YaShoom) on "How Russia Made Up a Language - Moldovan" video.

  1. Please note that this is an interested party - the author of this channel is from Romania, and Romania is interested in influencing Moldova. The author made a negative, not a neutral review, putting negative approaches to the situation with the language in Moldova as axioms. For example, he says that the villagers of Moldova were unhappy when the Soviet Union formed the Moldovan grammar, "because they did not realize how terrible their native dialect was" and that they "need" to switch to the only correct Romanian. Romanian, based on his words, turns out to be almost holy, and Moldovan, from his lips - as if some kind of dirt ... It turns out, in the opinion of the author, their language is unworthy - it is not worthy of the status of the official language for their separate state, with its own terms, accents and expressions. And I will remind you that to claim that some language is inferior because of a different set of words is clearly a biased attitude. The Moldovan language is not getting dirtier, just like any other. And what the Moldovan government did is an insulting attitude towards its own citizens. They completely spat on the consent of the people and local specifics, and simply deprived them of freedom of self-awareness, freedom of free thought as an independent culture, in the form of a unique identity, and did it for their own personal benefit - they sold out to Romania for bonuses. And the Romanians, as you see, do not respect Moldova and local customs. So what, after this, will the Moldovans grovel before the Romanians? Will they become an appendage of Romania, like appendicitis? If Moldova had treated the PMR with respect, and respectfully honored its local, necessary things, then they would have been together long ago... The PMR has pride and self-awareness, because people from the people are in power, and the authorities of Moldova do not have it at all - it is controlled from outside by Romanians and the power in Moldova is not from the people, but by elite fans of Romania and they do not care about the dignity of their ordinary people... As soon as they are ordered to do something from Romania, they immediately run to fulfill it. The Soviet Union, at least, respected the local people and their local traditions. Of course, the Union conducted its propaganda, but any country does this and the Union did it everywhere - it was its basis in ideology, the foundation, it is like the main law of the country. And now I am not saying how correct it is, the essence of this is that Moldova was respected to the same extent as other countries within the Union, and in return they were automatically required to comply with the laws and implement the ideology. Newspeak appeared in the USSR automatically - as a response to the need to express new terms within the country, and focusing on other countries was simply unacceptable. And there is nothing wrong with new words, especially if they are intuitively understandable to native speakers.
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