Referring to the actions in the square: speaking about them I would like to begin with the premises that have led to them and concretely it has been that democratic vote invoked by the leading party, pretending that it has been voted by the majority and that is how they obtained the power in their hands. If we compare the persons who have voted and the ones who in their majority participated to the protests, we see the evident difference, because at protests were present mainly pupils who have no right to vote, but we are that generation that hasn't been raised in the spirit of communism as our parents and grandparents had and I think it is we who have a democratic mind, a mind which is uncontrolled and personal. Referring to these actions and the involvement of the lyceum in them, we have been criticized and the official newspapers published numerous articles that sustained that the pupils are compelled to go there and that it was not their free choice, but the choice of others, it has been written even that the pupils were doing this not for themselves but for Rosca.
I consider these statements absurd, because the majority who has taken part to the actions of protest did that for themselves, they did that for the ideals inoculated to them, for the fundamental human rights that have been violated and because of those decisions of the government to introduce a history of Moldova, which cannot exist as a history outside the history of Romanians, and of that Russian language imposed as an instruction language beginning with the second grade. It is absurd and my opinion is that Russian may be introduced as an optional language, as the second foreign language beside German, Italian or Spanish and it wouldn't have been a problem. Those who wished to study this language would have studied it anyway.
As far as concerning these proper decisions of the governing party as well as other decisions, my opinion is that these decisions aimed to splitting on the internal plan both of the ideas and of population, and there were decisions that led to a worsening of the relationships with Romania. Considering the crises in the relations with Romania, I believe they were directly leading to the isolation of the Republic of Moldova on the international plane, I guess it was a wish of theirs, because when the relations with Romania were worsening the relations with Europe were worsening too and the only opened door faced Russia and the ISC countries.
I.M. - To what extent do you believe in the future of a communist Moldavian state?
T.D.- I believe that the idea of communism is an old-fashioned one. Communism belongs to history as Nazism and fascism does. To my mind the Republic of Moldova has no thriving future as a communist state.
I.M. - What measures should the international bodies overtake? Do they have to listen to you, to take attitude towards your protests? What kinds of help are you waiting for and who should provide it? As far as I know there have been taken some decisions in favor of protesters.
T.D. - These decisions have been taken by the international bodies and have been imposed to the governing party, it stays only to see how they are implemented, thing that the leading party is not hurrying up to do and which is expected by us, the participants to the protests. We expect the international bodies to fairly evaluate both our requests and those violations produced, we expect them to take a correct decision, which I am sure will be in our favor, and I think that at a possible extent the international bodies should interfere and not let the Republic of Moldova become a barrier between Eastern and Western Europe.
I.M. - How about the admission to Euro-Asia, from September-October we have all the chances to have Russian frontier officers at the frontier between Romania and Moldova. How do you think, will this time, when you are coming of age, people go on a strike again? Could there be a problem that will get us out in the street again?
T.D. - To my mind this Euro-Asian union is a parody to the European Union. It is one thing the abolition of the frontiers between the countries-members of the European Union and the trading and the goods traffic among these states, the majority of which are highly industrialized and well-developed and it is completely different the situation of this Euro-Asian union, where the majority of the states have a transition economy and are low-developed, as the Asiatic states that possess some mineral resources, as for instance states rich in petrol. This union is not indicated at all.
R.D. - We should specify our situation in the context of the Euro-Asian Union. Nevertheless, the legal frame should be set in a national referendum. Because though the communists affirm that they represent the option of the majority of the population, they should open their eyes and if we carried out an experiment of taking some 100 prisoners and name them communists, in the countryside the information would reach already mutilated and they would vote for them anyway just for the name of communists, because there still persist some memories 10-12 years old and some affirm that they had had a good life back then. In reality they do not represent the option of the nation, they would better do a referendum and would set two options: European Union and Euro-Asian Union and if this problem were largely made public as well as the referendum, and arguments for European and Euro-Asian Union were presented we would see what option would people chose. If they do this without consulting the nation, by themselves I think this act would have to face a strong wave of protests and this thing would lead to an unparalleled destabilization for the last 10-12 years, because this action would practically lead to a discontinuous development, which evidently is very painful and difficult to pass for the majority of population in the period of transition, but which is necessary for achieving prosperity. A future communist state is seen in my imagination as a state which will end sooner or later, which has already been demonstrated: they needed 70 or 80 years to demonstrate that communism falls anyway and that it is not viable in market economy reality. I'm sorry, but I don't have so much time to tolerate it until it will be demonstrated that this thing has to be stopped now.
I.M. - As I see it from what you are saying is that you set the problem categorically: either Europe, or Asia?
R.D. - There cannot be a golden mean, because as long as you are in the middle you cannot lose but neither can you win anything and therefore we have to choose the correct, the best and the most thriving path and everybody has to express his option.
I.M. - Do you believe the Transnistrian conflict will ever be solved?
R.D. - I'm not sure I will live to see the solving of the Transnistrian conflict since it is convenient for too many people. Maybe I don't possess the knowledge needed to affirm it will end or it won't, but what is seen from aside doesn't have a solution even if there have been some OSCE or other international bodies' actions, in reality absolutely nothing is done. Everything is on the paper, and there it remains.