Name one reason against the unification of Romania and Moldova

What do Romanians think about their pre-WW2 period? Is it idealized in your history?

Oh yeah, we all think it was the beez kneez. Despite only 10% people in urban areas, crippling lack of infrastructure, no education, far worse corruption than we have today, nepotism and so on. Mediocre political figures are seen as geniuses just because they weren't communists, the royal house is idealized and idolized despite being trashy dipshits etc. etc.
I'm not even a leftist but communism certainly had its upsides, one of the best was eliminating the royal house and some inbred sinister bourgeois.

There's literally no reason not to

Because it doesn't include Bukovina, which is Romanian clay too.

Seething neighbours

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so pretty much the same like in Poland, except we were a republic

I've read a book that compared Warsaw and Bucharest throughout the history in how the idea of "Paris of Eastern Europe" was reflected in both of them, it was pretty interesting to learn how similar these cities were, especially in the pre-WW2 period

Russia will be butthurt about it
and this

Countries of similar size, you have a far richer history but still had trouble being united in your normal borders for a couple of hundred years, looming USSR presence to the east and even before that Russian Empire fuckery, G*ermans fucking shit up every couple of decades, increased corruption due to both historical trouble and outside interference. I can see where the similarities come from, poor social contract between the bourgeois and the have nots etc.
It might also be that a class of western educated intellectuals came into full bloom during the interbellum period in both countries and thus had the same taste in architecture, art, culture etc.

I support Greater Moldova

Very true, Poland and Romania share a lot of similarities, especially that our elites were both fascinated with France and took the example of this country.

We were Allied in The interwar period:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Romanian_Alliance

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Better tell me, with which Eastern European country does Poland not share any similarities?

Maybe I should say "more similarities than we would expect" since Poland and Romania are not often compared to each other, we didn't have strong historical ties.

Imo Poland shares more similarities with Romania than with Czechia or let's say Estonia.

I get it, but those similarities are more about geopolitical stances, I guess.

not only, it's also about how the society was and is formed (for example religiosity, weak middle class, big discrepancies between the nobles and the peasants etc.)

even nowadays we have more in common than a lot of other E European countries. Levels of immigration and emigration (millions leaving, millions coming from ex USSR space, us Moldova you Ukraine); both rely more on US for security than any European alliance, both have blooming IT sector despite yours being significantly bigger. Industry is mostly tied to German car manufacturers.

I also noticed that Romanians are probably the most pro-Polish nation in eastern Europe, I've heard only positive things about Poland from Romanians.

>that our elites were both fascinated with France and took the example of this country.
Aside from British Empire, which country didn't do that at the time?

And what about Slovakia? How does it compare to Poland?
Also, do Poles feel any unity with Croatia?

Unite all of Europe instead.

some countries were traditionally more fascinated with Germany/Austria

There is some minor difference though

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I don't know how much romanians know about Polish history but I know for a fact that most people know about Katin, our boomers really admired the whole solidarity movement you had during communism while 30yo boomers admire the way you used EU funds to improve infrastructure in your country.

>And what about Slovakia? How does it compare to Poland?

Historically it does not compare at all because this country emerged only in 1993.

>Also, do Poles feel any unity with Croatia?

I wouldn't say it's 'unity', we just like them because they're Slavic, catholic, easy-going and have beautiful landscapes and the sea. Not much of 'brotherhood' I'd say simply because we don't have strong historical ties with them either.

>while 30yo boomers admire the way you used EU funds to improve infrastructure in your country.

Yeah, that's what I mean, on the Romanian skyscrapercity section Poland is often shown as an example for Romania in terms of development, which is of course pretty flattering for us.

With all it's faults, Poland is unironically the eastern (or central) european country with most potential and the one who played their cards better during the last years. Except Czechia, but Czechia is only eastern/central because krauts love to bully everything slavic.

Actually rare to see other Romanians say these things. I do disagree that "communism certainly had its upsides" because what they did, urbanization, literacy... could have been done by non-communists eventually and maybe with less sacrifices. I agree with the rest.

I support it because we can get qt blonde girls more easily.

>could have been done by non-communists eventually and maybe with less sacrifices

Could or couldn't. Portugal still had like 5% illiteracy rate in the 90s/00s when even the least developed eastern European countries had it below 0,5%.

Irredentism is mental illness

Well, Poland is simply the biggest country so it should be obvious it has the biggest potential. Per capita we're just in the middle.

anyone got that pic with the merchant overlaid across the romania-moldova map
it's a perfect fit actually

HA! I hang out there too. Urbanism is a huge problem in this country, even worse than corruption despite them being connected. Economically we're doing quite fine, similar to Poland, but that isn't reflected in quality of life due not in a small measure to urbanism issues. City centers mostly look like in the 90s or worse. New high-rise neighborhoods are poorly thought out and have no infrastructure. Old commie neighborhoods are poorly rehabilitated. Public transport is poor while all investments in infrastructure are car centric, thus transforming all public spaces in tarmac parking lots, reducing pedestrian and green space for parking, extra lanes etc.

it isn't such a rare opinion its just that this place is a magnet for our fascist LARPers

>City centers mostly look like in the 90s or worse. New high-rise neighborhoods are poorly thought out and have no infrastructure. Old commie neighborhoods are poorly rehabilitated. Public transport is poor while all investments in infrastructure are car centric, thus transforming all public spaces in tarmac parking lots, reducing pedestrian and green space for parking, extra lanes etc.

This is all a big problem here too. Of course it is improving but slowly, still the difference when you cross the border with Germany or even Czechia is huge. Germany is so perfect so you don't want to believe that it is a real place and not a Disneyland and I'm talking even about small towns or villages just on the border with Poland. Not a single run down building, even empty ones are in perfect condition. At least they set a goal for us we can try to achieve.

>fascist LARPers
What does this refer to? Legion LARPers?
The interwar era was worshiped by a lot of people in the 90s and early 00s, both by some intellectuals that lived back then and younger people wanting to seem more anticommunist. Maybe I'm out of the loop and people started criticizing that era.

Is that South-West part of Ukraine considered Romanian clay?

yeah hungary for example

What is the coolest but not widely known town in Romania? What city deserves more attention than it currently gets?

we dont really care desu, we have to take care of our own country first, theres still so much to take care of, motorways, bridges etc

Seriously I wouldn't know what to do to improve Kishinev except for total demolition of everything and building a new city from scratch.

yeah, most of eastern europe suffered because of russian leadership, i cant blame the average russian for this mess

that would be amazing, i dont mind it :)

Oradea
it's Cluj without the most annoying thing about Cluj, the "people"

half of eastern european cities were called Paris of the east, it doesn't mean anything

Only in Warsaw and Bucharest it was a strong myth that laid the foundation for the city's local culture.

yeah, westerners are obssesed with cleanliness
i dont say that you have to throw trash on the streets but god dont try to make it perfect because how hard they will try, it will never be

>Cluj

Interesting, what's wrong with their people?

Also, what are the main stereotypes about particular Romanian regions?

> god dont try to make it perfect because how hard they will try, it will never be

I genuinely hope it is possible to make at least some of our cities to look like in Germany. If I already see that here I can die happily.

Moldova has this Russian-issue still unresolved. Before unification they should kick all Russians and their bootlickers out.

it's not a foundation myth in warsaw

What are Romanian women like?

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yeah, it was historically romanian clay
stephen the great of moldova built a fortress there
now there are in that place subhumans called "gagauzians", so not a single drop of romanian left

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