Leon T. Boga about on the “Unconditional Union of Bessarabia” – Historical Context and Creative Personalities

Abstract

The material includes several articles inserted in the press from Bucharest (“Universul”, “Curentul”), in the interwar period by the Romanian-Macedonian teacher, archivist, publicist, and national-cultural militant Leon T. Boga (1886–1974), settled in Chișinău after First World War. The articles refer to the historical significance of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania– historical circumstances, stages, personalities, lessons for contemporaries and descendants. In 1927, he expressed his conviction that “Representing the victory of a historical truth, the union, whose the ninth anniversary we celebrate today, is eternal, unchanged like the truth that represents it”; and in 1938, revealing the decision of the Council of the Country of March 27, 1918, of union “forever”, the Romanian patriot emphasizes: “Forever! What a deep meaning these holy words have with which twenty years ago, Moldova from the East returned to the body of the Romanian land. And what a duty we all must understand their interpretation, today, tomorrow... Always!”

Keywords

• union of bessarabia with romania
• council of the country
• chișinău
• the “cuvânt moldovenesc” newspaper
• ferdinand i
• greater romania