{"id":2400,"date":"2018-06-30T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2018-06-30T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:27:29","slug":"moldavan-national-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Moldavan National History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I find the artifacts from WW II and the 1990s here moving. There is no narrative content, in Romanian or otherwise.<\/p>\n

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To the left is a uniform described as being from the Romanian army, to the right a uniform of the Soviet navy. Take a look at the photographs on the wall. I leaned against the opposing wall for a bit, there being no benches or chairs, and just pondered this composition and the historians who arranged it.<\/p>\n

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This grouping is one of several that speak volumes about the position of the population of Besarabia. I was really pleased to be in this museum.<\/p>\n

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The section on people sent to the gulag reminded me of museums and my relatives in Lithuania.<\/p>\n

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When I got to the Transnistria section a docent came by and asked if I’d paid for a ticket for photographing, which I hadn’t, following some misguided feeling that taking pictures with my cellphone isn’t „photographing“ the way a professional with an SLR would be for some commercial use. Museum guards also do not seem like they would be receptive to this reasoning, especially when I don’t speak Romanian. I looked at the effects of this guy a couple years younger than me killed around the Dniester and I thought of the Americans I know who can’t get the frigging date right on their leaflets. Love trumps hate, man. I’ve got to say I have more confidence in the moral arc of my index finger curled around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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