Popular Front of Moldova
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The Popular Front of Moldova was a political movement in the Moldavian SSR, one of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union, and in the newly independent Republic of Moldova. Formally, the Fr
Anatol Șalaru in 2009
Postal stamp commemorating the Grand National Assembly of 1989
Gheorghe Ghimpu on top of the Parliament building on 27 April 1990
Gheorghe Ghimpu at a Front meeting on 7 March 1991
Transnistrian War
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The Transnistrian War was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-separatist forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and neo-Cossack units, wh
Popular Front of Moldova
…to consolidate the new state and their position within it. The president came out as a strong anti-unionist after Moldova's defeat in the June 1992 War of Transnistria; to retain any hope of securing Transnistria, the idea of union with Romania had to be dropped, and so the Front moved into opposition and the anti-unionist…
Separatist forces during the Battle of Bender, the largest battle of the war
PMR trucks on the bridge between Tiraspol and Bender (Tighina)
Building still showing damage from the brief fighting in Bender during Transnistria's war for independence from Moldova
Bender's war memorial