'Flower bridge' from memories after 20 years

Journalists from the banks of the Prut River commemorated 20 years since one of the most important events of the national revival – the Flower Bridge - on May 6 in the morning. In a joint program of TVR Iasi and TV Moldova 1, journalists Horia Gumeni and Lucia Danu, together with their invitees, set up a new Flower Bridge between Romania and Moldova, this time from memories. The invitees of the program included participants in the events of May 6, 1990 and persons whose lives changed after those events, Info-Prim Neo reports. University teacher of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova and a member of the Romanian Academy Sergiu Chirca said hundreds of thousands of people crossed the Prut at the time, after the travel restrictions between the two countries were lifted. Thousands of Moldovan young people could go to study in Romania, while the Romanian students could study in Moldova. We hoped the ties will become stronger after those events, but it did not happen so,” Sergiu Chirca said. Rodica Postolache from Romania, a graduate of the Chisinau Institute of Medicine and Pharmaceutics “Nicolae Testemitanu” who came to Moldova in 2000, said Chisinau was the city where she spent her youth and where she found her love. She started a family and learned a profession here. However, the family plans to settle in Romania. Eugenia Marin, the mother of the late singer Doina Aldea-Teodorovici, said her children attended those events and told her how the people felt on that day full of meaning. She also followed the reports of the Moldovan journalists. “It was an euphoria as the people waited for the border to open for a long time. We did not think then that the Bridge Flower will not become a stone bridge,” said teacher Eugenia Marin. Present in the studio in Iasi, doctor of the Iasi children's hospital Slavian Cuciuc, who crossed the Prut together with thousands of Bessarabians through Albita, said the people felt united on that day and he realized that blood is thicker than water. The Flower Bridge was a symbolic gesture celebrating the liberation of Romanians living in Moldova from the Soviet rule. It also pointed out the possibility of an eventual union between the Romanian state and the Republic of Moldova. More than 1 million citizens of Romania and Moldova met on the left bank of the Prut river in the border crossing points of Miorcani-Pererita, Stanca-Costeşti, Iasi-Sculeni, Ungheni-Ungheni, Albita-Leuseni, Falciu-Tiganca, Oancea-Cahul, Galati-Giurgiulesti. They celebrated this event by throwing hundreds of thousands of flowers into the waters of the river. A period of time in which the citizens of the two countries could travel across the border only with their IDs followed.