Update9: The beautiful, young and a bit naïve face of the Moldovan “Orphans’ Revolution”

Update: Police is reportedly blocking the classes at universities and schools where students are prohibiting them to join the protests. There are also unconfirmed reports that authorities are gathering crowds to stage an “counter-revolution”. During the night police is believed to have arrested over 200 young protesters. Still many of them went again to the square in front of the Government to continue expressing their disagreement with the elections results.

THE ORPHANS’ REVOLUTION

Now, after having expressed my concerns over the violent clashes yesterday, I would like to make myself clear on how I see the last two days’ events. This is very important, since the ruling Communist party media resources assisted by the Russian media are offering a distorted and completely out-of-the-reality picture. The protests in Chisinau have started because young students were unhappy with the elections stolen by the Communist Party. They have organized themselves through blogs, and social networks like Facebook and Odnoklassniki.ru. By the way, the administration of Odnoklassniki.ru, a Russian social networking site, has reportedly shut down the discussion group that mobilized Moldovan youths.

Students wanted to organize just a simple flash-mob, lighting candles on the Great National Assembly Square as if “mourning the Communist Moldova”. The initial group did not think about a protest rally, or any big demonstration. However, they were joined by thousands of other young people, who felt and though similar. Their slogans were “Freedom!”, “I fight, I resist, I am anti-communist!”, “We want another voting!”, and so on.

Authorities have ignored young people, which were united by the noble idea to defend their rights and their disagreement to accept the lies bought by everyone else (their parents, the public functionaries, other people feeding on the Communist cronyism, international observers and officials). Because they have seen it with their own eyes, they have seen how useless was ODIHR this time in identifying frauds. The elections were stolen in a sense, that even before observer came to the country, using mass media under control and administrative resources the ruling Communist party has intimidated, bought, forced, convinced people to vote for them, installing mechanisms to control that process. During the elections there are many accusations that dead people were on the list, that mentally handicapped people were forced to vote, and so on. In a country where only ~1.4 mln. people voted, tens of thousand of votes mean a lot! Even 1% may be important, giving the PCRM the ability to get the constitutional majority. As an ODIHR former elections observer myself I am so disappointed and as a researcher I insist that that organization is not able with its stone-age election observation methodology to catch the very sophisticated tricks elaborated by post-Soviet authoritarian countries specifically to fool ODIHR. That organization should review its observation methods because it is transforming into a body that legitimize the development of authoritarianism in post soviet countries. A RECOUNT OF VOTES IS NOT NEEDED, WE NEED ANOTHER ROUND OF ELECTINOS, WHERE ALL PARTIES HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO MEDIA, AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES WILL NOT BE USED!

I am deeply disappointed by the reaction of the Western governments, shame on you, as you’ve been defended by the United States for tens of years, so that Soviet Union does not conquer you and “convince” you to join the Warsaw Pact, therefore today you have the duty to pay your debt of freedom. I have been told by some Moldovan that a Danish acquaintance stated – we don’t need you. I wish United States would have told you that after the Second World War, as they have spent so much money to rebuild you and keep you free. THAT IS WHY YOUNG MOLDOVAN STUDENTS GOT INTO THE SQUARE! – because nobody cared.

Now the communists and their Eastern “partners” are building a huge media myth to discredit the pure ideals of Moldovan youth willing nothing more than freedom and respect for their rights. Their protests were labeled the “Orphans’ Revolution” because under the Communist government close to a third of Moldovan citizens (their parents) went abroad to earn money for a living.

That is another face of Moldovan protests, where kids got into streets because their parents betrayed them and their European dream proved to be a fake, because “EUROPE DOES NOT NEED MOLDOVA”. IF YOU DON’T NEED US, WE WILL COME TO YOU, EITHER FREE AND AS MEMBERS OF EUROPEAN FAMILY, OR AS DISAPPOINTED AND ANGRY AS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN SOME 20-50 YEARS. BEWARE EUROPE, DO NOT BE INDIFFERENT!!!!