I am a teacher of Physics and Mathematics, but life has forced me to work for many years at the plant from Tiraspol. I have been advanced and the line of my advancement started with master and ended with the production director's assistant. Now, I'm unemployed, because the political situation has driven to the moment when we 12 people were all dismissed from their jobs, the majority of them being Moldavians with high education, with an experience of about 23-25 years of working at the plant. This was a result of the state politics according to which all the Moldavians were dismissed from their jobs. Yes, we were promised to be given other jobs, we were sent to the personnel office, but we wrote petitions, we quitted and the boss, the general director said: "you are free, guys! You'll be drinking for the next two months, and then you'll beg me to take you back". Well, he was wrong, because as long as he is the director we are not going back. We will be unemployed; we'll find other jobs in Moldova or here. Now, of course, it is very difficult to find a job in Transnistria, because when you write you nationality it is very hard. Even if many persons say it doesn't matter, I speak from my experience.
I.M. - But as a parent, how did decide to bring your children in Moldavian school, how do you hold on and what problems occur because of this?
I.M. - You know we are a Moldavian family, we were born on the bank of Prut, in Leuseni, my parents and my brother live there and we have never even considered the idea of giving our children in a Russian school. Even when they were little, they weren't yet studying, we had only one idea: our children will study in Moldavian, Romanian schools because in our family only Moldavian is spoken. There are cases when between us the son or the daughter of Russians asks us something in Moldavian. We answer them in the same language, even if they are Russians. I sometimes reprove them and if there is someone who doesn't understand, they are stupid because they don't know Moldavian language and we are smart because we know more languages. That was the solution: to give them in Moldavian schools. Now we are having very big problems, because as every parent would like, we want our kids to study in a beautiful school equipped with a sports room, with a Hall, with a canteen where they could. We want that in order for our children to study normally, to study in maximum 2 shifts, not in three or in four. And this is no comfort. Excuse me please, but the same toilet for so many children! It is impossible; I mean the smell and everything else. I spoke for many times, I proposed them to give us the School 4, which is situated in the yard, in order for us to make it a Moldavian one, if they say there is no politics. But let these children go to other schools for us to see that in Tiraspol we are Moldavians, that we have came on our land and not on a foreign one. I also proposed them to give us the building of the Ministry of Education; I mean why would they need a building that big? Move the ministry in here and let us have our school there, because in that building had been a school, the boarding school. But the problem is they want us out of here. This is not going to work because we don't give in so fast. For all these years Moldova has been humiliated, has been subdued to the process of russification; there are many cases when both parents are Moldavians but their children don't know a bit of Moldavian. Politics is big and big are the problems, they are very big. We won't be able to solve them on our own, but if we unite it is possible. Two Germanys have united, but when we speak about two banks it is much easier, isn't it?