“Our Language is Chosen…” An evocation of historical events: Anno Domini 1989

Abstract

The dialogue with Ion Hadârcă, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, honorary member of the Romanian Academy, head of the Social, Economic, Humanistic Sciences, and Arts Department, poet, and participant and animator of the national emancipation events at the end of the 1980s in the MSSR, focuses on the phenomenon of the Romanian language in the space to the right of the Prut River. An eyewitness to the events, Ion Hadârcă reconstructs the main stages that led to the decision on August 31, 1989, regarding the state language and alphabet, as well as the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova. Since then, 35 years have passed – a time of linguistic bifurcation, with schools, textbooks, high school and university programs in Romanian language and history, synchronization with Romanian spiritual values, and at the same time a hybrid war, with external media pressure, economic blockades, and blatant interference in the affairs of our fragile state sovereignty.

Keywords

• national language day
• chișinău
• mssr
• soviet union
• writers
• freedom