Rio Cana wrote:Lemanrussland wrote:Crazy irredentist groups, yeah.
No one in any of those country's governments will pursue those territorial claims seriously, unless you have some kind of massive destabilization of those countries. Pretty much all of those territorial transfers have been recognized by the states involved.
Some say the Romanian government has a plan to try to lure back Moldova and Budjak which is part of Ukraine.
Read this - http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/27595
Moldova has been Romania's main ambition for quite a while now. And in all honesty this is justified. In pre-Soviet times there was quite a strong and widespread sentiment of unitary national Romanian identity shared by Transylvanians, Moldovans and Wallachians alike. During the reign of the USSR, as with many of its neighbors, Moldova faced serious denationalization and Russification policies. Even the alphabet was reverted back to Cyrillic, which had been long abandoned in favor of Latin letters . Instead of choosing to fully assimilate Moldova, the Soviets went the middle route of classic divide and conquer, and successfully set up a separate national identity of Moldovans specifically targeted against the Romanian one in order to replace it. With such bullshit as Moldovans having more in common with Slavs than with Romanians (as if they were a different nationality) , and so on. Russophilic academia has even gone to such lengths as creating a "Moldavian-Romanian" dictionary as if the two were different languages when Moldavian is but a mere dialect of Romanian.
However, slowly but surely, Moldovans are waking up from this smoke and mirrors.
In any case, any eventual unification of the two will only come as a result of a democratic decision mutually agreed upon by the two populations. The same could be said about territories currently in Ukraine assuming this would be plausible, which it really isn't. But under no circumstances would Romania wait for e.g. Ukraine to break up in order to come in and annex its territories , or whatever is being implied by those saying that "Romania has territorial claims in Ukraine and Moldova"
EDIT: Correction, they didn't even revert back to the original Cyrillic Romanian alphabet , instead they used a "designed" (read: made-up) Russian-based alphabet. You can read all about it here.