[Marxism] "If I Was (Not) a Communist" (in Moldova)

[Thomas Campbell <avvakum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Three strange texts about the events in Moldova.

An ex-Moldovan diplomat (in broken English) on his blog:

http://vlad-lupan.blogspot.com/2009/04/moldova-elections-street-and-party.html

Somewhere at the end of this entry, he mentions a meeting with "EU
diplomats," who basically told the oppositionists to fend for
themselves.

OpenDemocracy's translation of Natalia Morar's blog entries during the
unrest. She is the liberal journalist mentioned in the NYTimes as "one
of five people" who organized the youth protests on Twitter and
Facebook:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/blog-for-democracy-from-the-streets-of-moldova

Finally (in Russian, if anyone here reads it), a blog entry by a
Chisinau lawyer (who admits that he voted for one of the opposition
parties), mostly about the inaction of the police, which he finds
highly suspicious:

http://zapiskiadvokata.blogspot.com/2009/04/1.html

The first two authors mention that the army and the police blocked
Chisinau and prevented protesters arriving from other parts of Moldova
from getting into the capital.

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