Link: https://cotidianul.md/en/40790/%22We-Moldovans-have-never-been-closer-to-breaking-away-from-the-Soviet-past%22-Sturza-is/

Former Prime Minister Ion Sturza believes that the Republic of Moldova has never been closer to breaking away from the Soviet past and European integration. In a post, he states that the progress in the European Union accession process and the attitude of the political leadership in Chisinau give him reason to believe that the country will succeed in reaching the same European community as Romania.

"We, Moldovans, have never been closer to breaking away from the Soviet past," writes Ion Sturza.

The former prime minister argues his optimism by opening negotiation chapters for EU accession, a more coherent European policy on enlargement, and what he considers to be an appropriate approach to the leadership of the Republic of Moldova.

"The successes, be they technical for now, in the European integration process, the opening of several negotiation chapters, a much more coherent policy within the EU towards enlargement and, last but not least, the appropriate attitude of the country's political leadership make me optimistic. We will finally succeed in standing with Romania in the EU," says Sturza.

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Sturza argues that the Republic of Moldova cannot build a prosperous state on its own and invokes the example of Romania, which he presents as proof of the role that Euro-Atlantic and European integration can have in the modernization of a country.

"Let's be honest: building a prosperous state on our own is a utopia. Even much larger and richer countries in Central and Eastern Europe would not have succeeded. Just one example: Romania. One hundred billion net for the modernization of infrastructure, economy, social sector. What would it be today outside of NATO and the EU? A country like Serbia, Russophile and frozen in development," says Sturza.

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Is he lying or have the numbers drastically changed?

This is data from 2015.

Of course I saw this - hence my question. Personally I doubt there's been a drastic enough change over ten years to overcome such strong opinion. Why would I be asking that if I did not see the date?

maybe, considering the hostilities of russia towarda ome of moldova's neighbors, it has resparked the scars of what was seen (or oerceived, by many moldavans) as a foreign occupation of moldava by russia (soviet union) as a continuation of the former occupation by the tsarist russia empire

Maybe there was no big change: Believing that the dissolution of the soviet union in 1991 was a bad thing + believing that the way forward in 2026 is to align themselves with the eu, are not mutually exclusive beliefs. It's like Moldova had a bad relation breakup, but after some time has passed, they accept that their old relation is done and never coming back, so it's time to move on and start dating other people.

Maybe they miss communism but not Russia