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Moldova broke away from the USSR to be independent and be their own country. Transnistria wanted to break away because they were a mostly Russian speaking region, and felt they weren't being represented well by the Moldovan majority. They also had Russian forces to back and protect them, bringing Russia into the conflict.

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Did they succeed is becoming a nation state?

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Did they succeed is becoming a nation state?

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The question isn't really whether Moldova became a nation state, more whether Transnistria did. They see themselves as an independent state from Moldova, however globally they are recognized as part of Moldova. The Transnistria War didn't result in Transnistria breaking away officially.

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This map classifies Moldovans and Romanians as the same ethnicity. However, in Moldova they identify as two separate ethnicities.

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I would identify Moldova as a nation-state. Moldovans live mostly withing the borders of Moldova, although there are a few other ethnic groups in the Country. There are six major ethnicities in Moldova, Moldovan: 75.1%, Romanian: 7%, Ukrainian: 6.6%, Gagauz: 4.6%, Russian: 4.1%, Bulgarian: 1.9%. Moldovans occupy most of the country and are spread throughout it, but in the North and Northeast (Near or along the Ukrainian border), there are large areas occupied by people who identify as Ukrainian. Throughout the country there are also Russians, dispersed, but living in sizable areas. and in the South there are large areas inhabited by Gagauz.

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Moldova became an independent state in 1991, breaking away from the USSR during the fall of communism. This occurred after the Transnistria War. This war occurred because the Russian speaking citizens in the Transnistrian region felt the Moldovan didn't represent them and want to break away to form their own state, backed by Russian forces.

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Began in November of 1992 when the Russian-backed forces in that region staged a rebellion and refused to recognize Moldovan government authority.

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This War occurred between Romanian- Moldovans and Russian- speaking inhabitants of Transnistria. It lasted 2 years, killing 1,000 and injuring 3,000.

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I don't believe that any other countries needed to get involved in this war (aside from France and Germany) because they handled the people and the conflicts very well. I feel that if other countries would have joined in, there would have been more disagreements and more fights could have broken out causing even more lives to be lost.

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France and Germany, both members of the European Union got involved in the war to create asymmetry between Moldova and Russia.

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After the war, Moldova became an independent nation-state and reached many political agreements with Russia regarding languages and ethnicity issues.