Separatism or self-determination. Valery Korovin
Monument to Suvorov in Tiraspol, capital of Transnistria
September 2 in Transnistria celebrated the independence Day. But not all independence is the same. In some cases, we condemn the separation of a fragment of a people or ethnic group from a particular state, calling it separatism and offering hard to deal with it. In other cases, on the contrary, as with Transnistria, support call-determination or the ability to preserve their identity.
So what’s the difference? How to figure out where the independence of the good, and negative as to separate separatism from self-determination and on whose side to stand up in each case? To understand, at first glance, very difficult. And here, as it is impossible by the way, we comes to the rescue of geopolitics.
Geopolitics argues the existence of two types of civilizations: the civilization of the sea – Thalassocracy, and the civilization of the land – the tellurocracy. This is today known not that student, but even graduate kindergarten.
In line with this geopolitical marking we choose a side – either we are on the side of Eurasia, land of civilization, which means we geopolitical the Eurasians, or on the side of sea power, Maritime civilization, then it, on the contrary, the Atlanticists.
In accordance with the selected position and the estimated one or the other independence. So, if you are Eurasian, standing on the side of the land of geopolitics, the allocation in favor of Eurasia, which is the process of creation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, which declared independence from Moldova on 2 September 1990, for you the phenomenon is overwhelmingly positive.
Especially that Moldova, as the Moldovan Soviet socialist Republic, chose the opposite geopolitical vector, rushing to Europe, and from the point of view of geopolitics – in the bosom of the Atlanticist civilization, all opposite of our civilization, the Eurasian.
Now I understand why, as they say, the international and Western community for the independence of Transnistria is not recognized, and Western politicians continue to consider it a part of Moldova.
The same applies to identity. The approach of Western, Atlanticist, civilization – unification. One size fits all – upgrade to westernisierung, to adjust to Western liberal standards, unify, mix in the melting pot. None of those who fell under Western civilization rink, to avoid it failed. And next will fail.
It is quite another thing our Eurasian approach: as pluralistic, preserves the diversity of cultures, languages, and traditions in the framework of the strategic unity. Only in the framework of the Eurasian education to preserve their identity. So is Russian the world, with great love and respect apply to everyone, even to small people and Pistoia maintaining its identity, culture and characteristics.
Not surprisingly, the Russian Transnistria became uncomfortable in the new, proclaimed at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moldovan national state, swinging on the identity of the Russian and determined for all single national standard. As, however, uncomfortable was the Ossetians and Abkhazians in the Georgian national state, and the Russian Crimea and Donbas in Ukrainian.
The forcible Georgianization, Moldavian or Ukrainization may not like anyone. Identity is the essence of man, his basic Foundation, for which he is willing to fight, including with arms in hands. A person can change the identity to another – but only voluntarily. When it is his conscious, existential choice. In all other cases he will not back down.
Transnistria is independence in favor of Russia, the Russian world and the Russian civilization in General. This separation from the Western, Atlanticist, vector is disagreement with the globalization and unification, is the preservation of Russian identity in opposition to the erosion in the melting pot of United Europe, where the hard pull of the current Moldova.
So, Transnistria is us, and his choice of independence is our, Russian choice. And no it is not canceled.
Valery Korovin
