Where the Russian Revolution had proclaimed the great principle that oppressed nationalities should decide their own fate, — a principle admitted also by allied powers, — Bessarabia, after more than a century’s trial of the Russian form of Government, decided that the only natural way to follow was to unite with Roumania, the mother-country from which she was torn away 106 years ago. The idea of union had never been given up during that long period of oppression. It had always guided the hope of the Moldavian patriots. In spite of the efforts of the Russian Government, the movement tending to a disjunction of Bessarabia could not be checked. It was especially after the Russian Revolution in 1905 that the separating current swelled and took large proportions. The union, or rather reunion of Bessarabia with her Mother-country, was the express wish of the great majority of the Bessarabian population. The evidence given in the present pamphlet shows abundantly that Moldavians compose the large majority of this population; we wish it to be noticed that the evidence mentioned is of purely Russian origin, and consequently cannot be accused of partiality.

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