Moldova: The Devastating Effect Of Economic Migration
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2016
- A Long Absence: The effect of widespread economic migration on the people left behind. Tempted by opportunities in Russia and the EU, one in three Moldovans have migrated to seek work.
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Tempted by opportunities in Russia and the EU, one in three Moldovans have left the country to seek work. As communities back home struggle to cope with the exodus, where does the future for Moldova lie?
Since 2014, Moldovans have moved freely within the EU, prompting a sharp rise in economic migration. Raya is one of the 40,000 Moldovans supporting her family from France. "I’ve found cleaning work...that’s how I earn my daily bread", she says. The money earned by those like Raya now accounts for 25% of Moldova's GDP - "without money from abroad", says Raya's mother, "we wouldn’t be able to survive". Yet communities have been left desolate by the exodus, and child trafficking is rife amongst youngsters with absent parents. Dan, whose parents left him in a children's home to work abroad, is grateful: "It was more difficult before; we didn’t have any money at all. Now, since they went away, life seems easier". Yet with the future of migration in the EU unclear, will the sacrifice have been worthwhile?
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Sorry for my english, i am from Moldova, and the images that you see in this video are not the hardest reality of my country. Official in Moldova live 4 millions citizens, for real it's just 2 millions, because 60% are in Russia, other 30% in Europe, and 10% in USA. I watched this video with tears, it's so hard to see your country dying.
so sad for families to split
I think this is all about government policy making.
Te inteleg...
fii optimist,eu sunt roman din Romania..noi suntem un pic mai bine..dar acelasi sentiment avem..ca tara se stinge...stii,ce ma face sa cred..ca acest neam,nu o sa se stinga?De cand e el ,pe acest pamant mereu a fost la limita si a continuat,sa existe...poate Unirea dintre tarile astea ar mai schimba ceva...salutare si capul sus,frate de peste Prut
Your English is perfect. It is indeed very very sad to see this. Moldovan people deserve better. It must be heartbreaking for all these people to have to leave their children behind. If there wasn't such mistrust between Europe and Russia things would surely change for the better.
Moldova is one of those countries where the people are poor but they don't act like trash. In 50 years i don't see it as a poor country.
In 50 years time there will be no Moldova if people keep emigrating. Also the generation that grows up without their parents are going to have mommy/daddy problems.
they don't because it's hard to live there. so they need to stay together and help each other to be able to survive. its not a no mans land
Crime is pretty high. What differentiates it is that it's population is older than other third world nations, and so it has less young people in the risk zone for crime,mits also has emigration as an solution to it's problems.
Romania has exactly the same problems as Moldova: poverty, corruption and depopulation. Since 1991 Romania loses up to 1.13% of its population every single year. Romania already lost more than 4 million people since late 80s. Imagine its future after unification with such a poor country as Moldova. It is madness.
Same with Ukraine i guess!
In Moldova every single family has a relative in Italy, Russia or France....
W1SDOM Dude, even working in Romania would be better, the average wage is 560€ (2600 lei), you already know the language, it's much closer and it's easy to become a citizen. Moldovans are stupid for going to Russia.
Pa Ma And the people are also much more accepting of Moldovan immigrants than they would be in the west or in Russia. Actually, some see it like moldovans coming home. It's a no brainer.
Romania is part of the EU, Moldova is not
100 years ago every Norwegian had a relative in America..
We had that too ( Ro ), it;s less than it was 10 years ago now but you have to invest in your own resources and build up the infrastructure , if you go for jobs I think more will remain in the country . We have to build up our own shit toghether and do something because it's sad that our people are spreading all over the world
As a moldovan who had to immigrate from there three years ago, this video hit me a lot. I cried three times watching this necause it's the reality and it's also why we leave. I moved to spain, where i lived with my grandma for a year and then the rest of my family came along. It's not that i don't like spain, in fact, it's a very beautiful country, but i wish from the bottom of my heart that one day we can return to moldova with the rest of my family, and not having relatives across italy, france, russia, canada or even japan. I wish i get to live long enough to return to moldova before i die and cherish my culture and be with my people
So why don't you move back? Do you not like living in rural countryside Moldova? Do you not enjoy working on your own farm producing your own food? You prefer the easy life in Spain?
I hope Catalin finish his school and succeed in life.
Well said , Mark ...Aint compassion a great virtue ...But what do we actually do ..
seeing Catalin makes me remind to my son. i hope i can see Catalin now and provide him his favorite foods. Could someone check the address where Catalin and his grandparents live?
Catalin if you read my text. I always you&your grandparents&your mother in france will always in a good health. Do eat and take a good care of yourself. don't you worry your life will be better. i do hope we can meet someday.
Khairi, Malaysia
01:48 .... they are to... myake play of the Borat musics. It is niiice.
Agreed, I'd like to send Catalin money. Reminds me of my kid. How do I send $?
Without his mum , no chance ..!
In other words, Moldova has experienced "brain drain" - a phenomenon wherein the smart and able people LEAVE. America and Western Europe have typically been the recipients of those smart and able people and reap the benefits.
@bro ha True, yet, with that many leaving, educated professionals are leaving, also! Survival!
It's the worst thing that the west has done in the modern age, taking away talent from poorer nations.
bro ha those people also tend to be the smartest people lol
HipHop Anonymous The US is starting to have a massive brain drain as people abandon the country due to student loan debt.
@@MegaBallPowerBall
What proof do you have of that?
When I visited Greece, the hotel I stayed at was run by a mostly all Moldovan staff. Very nice people, but as they say, there just isn’t any opportunity for them in their country. :-/
You know that Moldova sucks when they move to GREECE.
Instead of the EU wasting money on Africa and the Middle East, we should be helping these people because they can and eventually build a functioning society. It's also a somewhat important region strategically for the EU and that's worth something.
Hmmm! which countries in Africa exactly is the EU wasting money on?
Yunis Blu3 he’s dumb asf EU actually steals resources from the continent of Africa... he sounds like a racist
Yunis, "€21 billion in development aid was provided to Africa in 2016 by the EU and its member states". Those are just from the government, more is provided by citizen fund raising. With €21 billion annually we could completely turn around Moldova, Ukraine, Balkans and more.
BlacknWhite, let's have a discussion once your IQ goes above 65.
Milton Waddams I asked COUNTRIES. Africa is a continent......money given to specific countries does not constitute donation to the continent as a whole. Africa does not function like the EU. Each country is independent and deal with foreign nation individually. Try again.
As a Venezuelan, I can feel nothing but empathy for this people. Our country was destroyed by socialism/communism and brought to its knees by a gang of criminals that are now in power. As of today, the annual hyperinflation is calculated to be 82,766 % the government recently removed 5 zeroes from our currency and they had removed 3 zeroes a few years back. 67% of the people have lost an average of 11 kgs on the last year.
Teddy Gonzalez yeah but moldova was destroyed by capitalism...
Both of them are shit in their purity.
Capitalism is not destroying Moldova. What is destroying the country is corruption, mismanagement and lack of free market and incentives to attract foreign capital.
Were you people asleep for the last seventy years. At least us eastern Europeans experienced Communism at the end of a Russian bayonet. But you Venezuelans elected your Communist Government. I know, the idea of taking (stealing) from the rich to give to you sounded really good. The problem is, that once you get rid of the doers, the inventors, the commercial entrepreneurs, Nothing gets made because theres no one there that knows anything.
So now, you guys will experience that too. You better pray that the US does something to save your hungry boney asses, because it never gets better. Why isn't there a revolution going on in Venezuela?
From 1952 to 1958 our country had a right wing dictatorship which produced more wealth and progress than any other government before, however Russian communism already had its eyes in Latin America and with the help of Cuba "Social Democracy" was first introduced after 1958. Every government from there on, inherited the financial "bonanza" of Perez Jimenez' government and with the oil boom, it was the perfect scenario to start wasting money on social programs and populism took control for over 40 years. Obviously in the 90's this model wasn't longer sustainable and when Social Democracy showed its true face, it was already too late. Poverty rates had already skyrocketed and people were looking for a Mesias. That's when Hugo Chavez came in, with his beautiful words and promises he managed to seduce a whole country that had fallen into the socialist trap.
I get your point but what you fail to understand is the power of communism and how it became rooted in Latin American minds. It was all prepared almost half a century ago. The reason there is not a revolution right now, it's because half of the people fled seeking for a better life. My family was smart enough to forsee this and left the country years before the shit hit the fan. The other half of the country who stayed, is just busy making lines for food every day.
USA is not going to intervene because they are the puppet of the original creators of communism.
Many Moldovans choose to learn French because the official and most widely spoken language in Moldova is Romanian, a language that belongs to the Romance family of languages which also includes French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese.
@Ion Roman It should never have been its own country. It should be part of Romania.
@@fechitorrahimov2189
It was but was occupied by Comunist Russia 's Stalin .
Their national anthem is “our language”💀
@@jcxkzhgco3050 the most cancerous and most dumbass shitty anthem in the whole world, I'm from there and I hate it, couldn't they come up with something more original, less dumb and cringey? Holy shit, while all countries sing about strength, bravery, persistence, etc, moldova sings about language... Completely pathetic
Romance family of languages....? It s a Latin language like all the others you mentioned.... Never heard of the word Romance but as a type of romantic songs in Romanian folk music...
Average salary per month is not 200 euros but much lower, families lives with less then 50 euro per month and this people works day and night to make this money.
this is very sad, I cant believe this, I can spend a 150€ per night in the pubs like nothing. So how can one survive, not one but whole family from one 50euro banknote per month?
It's hard to live that way but they can survive because the elementary things like food and water are cheap. They heat through woods (not electricity), although they may have TV's and some basic tech stuff like cell phones, very cheap ones of course. It's the same reality as with almost every poor country in SE Europe, namely: Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro etc.
in Brazil my friend,the reality is alike.
we brazilians have to work for 35 years and pay the social security.
in the long run ,one person retired in Brazil earns a PITTANCE.
bini zici.
Romania was like that few years ago,now tings are getting better and we starting to live better, you just need to have patience and for fk sake turn your back against rusia already.I dont want Moldova to be part of Romania i want a free and a prosper country that is part of EU,your lives would be so better by now.
"Every family has relatives outside" same with Romania
The EU sends (squanders) money on Africa and the Middle East when it should be helping fellow Europeans in Moldova.
They dont give af about moldovo or the balkans
@@shqiperia60 I know and that's why people throughout Europe are saying fuck the EU. They want to send ONE MILLION AFRICAN MUSLIMS here to the Czech Republic, we're like, the fuck you wanna do? Oh hell no.
You are right !
@@freddymarcel-marcum6831 Germany and France took people from the middle east and africa and kicked people from Balkans or Moldovo. We are the closest to Europe with 1000 year of history and they turned their back on us, we have fought their wars in europe, we have kept the Otomman empire out, we have fought with and against the germans in 2 world wars.
But hey maybe they will learn something when the muslims from middle east bomb their country. Or maybe they wont learn at all.
All i know is Europe has turned their back on us.
The EU is only interested is poaching African and middle eastern workers, they are cheaper wage servants than those of eastern Europe.
I want a world of trade and cultural preservation. Everywhere around the world the rich places are starting to look the same and the poorer places are losing their culture and self identity as they are forced to move to richer places.
I'm praying for you Moldovans, love from America 🇺🇸
BnBCraft bOi
BnBCraft god bless America
From where in America? Argentina, Nicaragua, Colombia, Jamaica?
Why do people often say "I'm praying for you"?
Is that going to feed them?
Hypocrites
@@danasmith1197 exactly
I’m Pakistani and I have a lot Moldovan friends In the uk they are one of the kindest people love from Pakistan❤️
I'm from Latvia, same situation here. 60% of population left. I lived and studied in UK since 2006, finished my masters degree, then sanctions and crisis came had to return back to Latvia to help my family. It's bad. I earn after tax 700 euro, and that is considered a high wage. I can't even have a car/rent a flat e.t.c. Pathetic. Going back to UK next year.
I'm Macedonian, and I can confirm my country has the same problems. After Yugoslavia, it's been hard for Macedonians. My parents were right to move to the United States, but I always feel bad for my extended family every time I visit.
Why other countries doesn't open factories in Moldova?
Salary is almost as low as China.
Good workers and close proximity to bigger and richer markets.
+Notebookguy?
You ask why other countries dont open factories in Moldova (MD):
1.) Countries dont run factories in a capitalistic society - thats private business
and that leads us to topic
2.) One of the main problems in MD is corruption, you can buy (bribe) nearly all and everybody in MD.
You thought you bought some soil in MD, ercted a little factory and wan to do business now:
Wrong - somebody paid the guy at the city hall whre your soil is registrated (Kataster): Its no more your - it belongs to somebody else - you sold it a few weeks ago
So you go to court - the judge is bribed to. You have no chance.
Some mold. criminals tried to do this with a BIG german company in Balti:
They had no chance - only after the german government intervened and protested the company was given back their properties.
And now imagine you run a company with - lets say 50 employees only:
Forget it.
Before the Moldovians dont do their homework, fight corruption and stop stealing the country has no chance.
Just my two cents!
Those are some deep rooted problems. No idea how you can solve them. I can only see a foreign power solve these somehow
Invest your money in Moldova and see how it "flies" away.
the salary is much lower than india and some african countries
Moldova's credit rating is very poor. They need to deal with corruption first. Obviously being sabotaged by Russia doesn't help. Russia does everything in its powers to destroy countries that dare to head towards EU.
Another invisible problem is that the country's leadership is torn between West or East.
AddoSpero well said
God bless Moldova and it's beautiful people. Love from Ireland.
God bless you brothers from irland please stay safe.
You know what one of Moldova's biggest export is? Sunflower seeds. Moldova should look to Estonia for an economic model, Estonia is flourishing after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
That's not a comparable case. Unlike Moldova, Estonia could rely on a capitalist powerhouse to prop its economic development, namely Finland. Even now hundreds of thousands of Estonians commute every day to Helsinki to work manual jobs. Moldova only has Romania which doesn't boast nearly as much capital or political prestige as Finland does in Estonia-most importantly because Romania had just as hard a struggle during communism (in fact, in the '80s Moldova might actually have even been _wealthier_ than Romania).
+yarpen26 "Even now hundreds of thousands of Estonians commute every day to Helsinki to work manual jobs" - a blatant lie. How would you even imagine it? There's no metro line between Estonia (hell, you even don't know the name of the capital, hence using the country's name) and Helsinki. By the way, how Poland is coping now after losing more than 2 MILLION people to economic emigration?
@@yarpen26 Dont forget about the favorable regulations by the EU, and America that makes sure that their leadership to stay in power
I intended to write "thousands", not "hundred of thousands" and I also wanted to write "weekly" instead of "daily". Far as I'm aware, it's about 20,000 people going from Tallin to Helsinki every Monday. I just made two mistakes, that's all. And yes, I know perfectly well the name of the Estonian capital (the worst I do is mess up whether the "l" or "n" should go double but I dare say that's not a major issue) and it was nothing more than a particular choice of phrase.
No need to get so defensive. Almost every former Eastern Bloc country suffers from either mass emigration or mass commuting to more developed countries. Whatever happened to Poland is of no concern. Latvia has proportionately more people living abroad than inside of it because they can't commute to a wealthy nation as easily as you guys. If you swapped places on the map, you would be dealing with the exact same thing.
And no, I'm not revoking my statement that Estonia owes much of its post-communist development to the inflows of capital from Finland. Finland is also Estonia's top import and export partner.
Love, strength and courage is all I can send you by now Moldovan people. This documentary has touched me deeply
I am Thai....i have very litlle knowledge bout europe...stories bout maldova are rare for me....
The clip is really sad.....
But i hope all of maldovan have good luck and be happy ^_^
Love from Thailand!
Moldova looks like a beautiful country. May it overcomes all sorts of crime, poverty and social evils.
It's just nature taking back its lands.
People move.
Looks like there's no need for this country' services..
Society has changed.
Who you can blame?
It's sad.. but what can you do?
Building something is hard.
And even if you do it, who's gonna garantee that someone will buy what you're selling?
Detroit example..
From a booming town, to a ghost town in few decades..
That's just life goes..
People move. Interests change...
Truly beautiful. Pray God turn his eyes and heart to these his ppl especially these children
Yet another great load by Journeyman Pictures. And proud to be a long time subscriber.
It's pretty painful to see that there's a country just on the edge of the EU, within Europe struggling to such extent.
And EU association hasn't helped the country much at all.
Like the former Yugoslavia area and the far south of Spain or Italy, Greece and Romania. There are many places in Europe outside the west that are struggling.
@@dadikkedude there are different levels of struggling. I live in Spain, and the south of Spain is sure as shit not comparable to this in absolutely any way.
Not even Romania.
Even the most problematic parts of the former Yugoslavia like Montenegro, Kosovo are doing better.
@@MikeBenko Serbia*
Wheu u get that the teacher is speaking in French not Rumanian so the kids wont understand and start cring. There the feelings hit me.
They should teach English >> The Language used in Business and Commerce ! International English.
@@grahambird1570 they do. French is second foreign language
very sad as an American I truly am grateful for what we have but many don't see it that way a ton of winers who don't realize how good we really do have it!!
Yeah, some whining going on in USA, but for good reason. Look at the stagnation of wages since the 70's, shrinking middle class, disappearance of union jobs, etc. Soon enough, we'll stop being a superpower; maybe we won't even be a country. Who knows?
well i'm not from there but i guess you politicians should think to invest all the billions of dollars in the country development instead of military , that might help i guess . And to be honest 9$/ h it's not bad , unless you want a dream life , with huge villas and expensive car's , that's not what life is about , good luck .
USA elite is doing the same thing in USA that they do in other countries, destroying the middle-class, increasing the numbers of poverty and pushing all the resources to the most-criminal 1%.
America had enough babies and doesn't face a demographic catastrophe like the rest of the world. America will remain a superpower throughout this entire century. Europe, Russia, and China did not have enough babies. Their economies will suffer.
You can always be proud of what you have and still strive for better
Towards the end when he said "itd be better to live here at home with mom" and then seeing his expression,his sadness, him holding his tears back, hit home so hard with me, my mom left me at the age of 10 with my dad, im 24 now, life was so hard not knowing why or where your mom is and why she just left you like nothing,later on I found out she fled to Mexico because she had some issues with the law here in the u.s, point is i dont hate my mom nor would i hold that against her. Just wanted to let this out .. idk the last part to this video legit made cry, im sorry for what you're going through, I know youll be with your mom soon.
(I know this video is 3 years old)
Keep up guys, push for a better future, heart breaking documentary.
I wish we (in Belgium) could change our muslim immigrants with these nice fellow Europeans from Moldova...
Do it
Zeno D from what part of Belgium are you?
Great idea
Zeno D 😂😂fuck
Drunk think like you
Just saw this and its sad, breaks my heart. I pray and hope Raya and Catalin are now together and any updates from anybody would be good, I would really like to know, as I would happily give them a hand. I felt the hardship when I visited Moldova and just tried to keep humble. I really appreciated that despite some people doing it tough, they were excellent people, talked, helped, friendly, hard working and honest, so for me it was a privilege visiting there. Va Multumim Moldova.
That's a mother's love for sure .she's making a huge sacrifice for her family thank god for her parents been there to look after her son well . Hats off for them they should be grandparents not parents ! I'm wondering about those that came to the UK now we,ve left Europe does that mean they've all had to go back home . It looks so depressing there .
Back when I was living in Ireland, I had two cleaners from Moldova who would come twice a week. I never knew the situation there was this serious. God bless Moldova.
They call you "poorest country in Europe".If i heard correctly,in one part of this video they said that sallary over there is 200 euros.The same situation here is in Serbia.90 percent of people work for that amount(i am from Serbia).I work in Pepsi currently and i gain 250 euros per month.The same situation is in Romania,Bulgaria,Macedonia,Bosnia...i dont know why they call you "poorest country in Europe" when we are all poor.And here,the people who work abroad build houses,and many are migrating everyday,most to west but also to Russia to work on construction sites in Siberia.
My friend,never believe statistics.90 percent of people i know here in Serbia work for 200 euros.Unemployment is very high,almost 30 percent and there are people who are foecwd to work in chinese stores for 100 euro a month.
250 Euros, really? ... Less than a minimum wage here in Brazil
Wagner Rodrigues in bulgaria is the same ,small salary but food nd transport expensive then west so u dont have what to do
It's a bit above 100 euro actually
The minimun wage is about 100 euro
The woman at 3:40 is so beautiful!
As for the Moldova, I hope it will bounce back.
I found 3:23 more beautiful.
I am so sad and sorry for the little boy :(... I wish all the best to the country of Moldova to recover and have a peaceful life.
Moldova is ruled by Russia. It has never been independent and Russia will never let it to develop and join EU. The same fate is waiting for Ukraine
France needs moldovans Romanians and ukrainians not algerians
Very true.
BlacknWhite Truthfully
Sometimes you have to be pragmatic rather than idealistic. Yeah, it's kind of racist, but what's the reality of France and the French in the end? Aren't they the only ones relevant in the issue?
Until the next World Cup or the euro's arrive, then you need the likes of Zidane, Mbappe, Henry.. Sacre bleu
so you are saying those Moldovan Romanians are not causing crime you imbecile they do the same
so they can bring in their filthy eastern ways and backwards orthodox religion? how is that different from muslims?
beautiful people, and even though they are poor in european standards they are better off then most of the real poor countries around the world
@@ColonelHoganStalag13 I live in Uganda. I would never wish to be in Moldova.
Most probably it isnt unless if you are comparing it to afganistan or other war torn country or a dictatorial hellscape
Greetings from Indonesia, I am praying and sending so much love for their children at Moldova😘
A very strong effect in this documentary-production is that the weather is always foggy or dark. There's no sunshine in any of the clips really. I don't know if this is intentional with handpicked days of production or if it's random, but it most definitely is a strong effect that really influence the viewer towards getting gloomy vibes. And this goes so well together with the whole theme of a "dying country" basically. Brilliant documentary.
A very interesting documentary. I'm a Brit and my parents have emigrated to Bulgaria, it looks exactly like in this video: the same houses, wintery mist and even the women wear the same headscarves. The difference is that Bulgaria is in the EU and most of the friends I have met out there have lived and worked in Western Europe and sent money home, Bulgaria is developing now although the rural areas are exactly like shown in the video, I wonder what the future of Moldova will be.
I'm an American in Kolín, Czech Republic, a Moldova lady cleans my man cave once a week, she's probably the sweetest person I've met in twelve years living here. Even when the cave is clean she comes by, she has keys and I pay her as much as I can without insulting her. I'm planning to visit Moldova pretty soon, I can't wait.
thank you
Thanks..
Well that's nice of you
Oh its going to be a blast. If you ever wondered what a communist state in the 1950's looked like , that's what awaits you.
You are such a hero for not insulting her. Waw. What a man. Bravo. I applaud you
Interesting documentary, Journeyman pictures, keep it up
I am from Brazil and I Love Moldovian people. One of the happiest and kind European I ever met. All the best s2.
Our languages have similarities
One day I was sad because I didn't have shoes to wear, next day I saw a man who did not even have feet. Great documentary. Thanks for uploading. Greetings from New Zealand
They forgot to mention the unionist movements in Moldova and Romania that want Moldova to reunite with Romania.
yes, and then we won't be indentified as moldovans, and our flag, nationality will be lost, very smart of you.
This is how saying germany should do a union with austria, while austria would loose their nationality of course.
+Mari Paul we dont seem to romanians 100%, 80% Of the moldovans have Green or blue eyes with blonde hair. romanians seem to gypsies. darker skin, hair, eyes and different etnic class. we only have some traditions equal and the language. but anyway we have diferent accent, i can say we are almost romanians not 100%.
black_opREADYf1 ps3 especially the 150.000 Turks (gagauz) from the south of the of the rep of Moldova or the gypsies from Soroca they are very light skinned blue eyed people hahaha. Troll you just write anti romanian pro Russian STALINIST PROPAGANDA !
What are you talking about? I'm talking in general stupid mind.
black_opREADYf1 ps3 you are not a Moldovan you are a Russian troll ! You are a Moldovan like I'm Chinese !
The boy's such a good boy to his grandparents!
Tragic. Thanks for the sharing.
I wish all the best for people of Moldova , especially for Moldovan mothers who work abroad and can not see their children. God Bless!
I never knew these things. Thank you for sharing. It is so sad to hear that so many people must leave their homes. It makes me sad to learn this. I hope things improve for Modovans, so they don't have to leave their home and families like this. Best wishes from the USA.
I dont comment much. But i must say Journeyman really knows how to make unbiased news films. Its so refreshing to watch real news without an agenda.. True Fan Here of Journeyman Pics!
Come to Canada we need good people like Moldovian
Canada belong to the Canadian that built it, my ancestor.
Raging Bull I'am a Canadian from Moldova stay strong 🇨🇦🇲🇩
No more racist white thank you.
the shiny pony prefers
south sudanese
eritreans
haitians
Anyway I wish them good luck they seems they 've almost the same culture with Eritrean and Ethiopian orthodox
beautiful people. good luck.
Looking at 14:15 the woman's hand made my heart sad, My grandma also had a hand like that, poor people' hand.
As a child of this system, my father left me and my mom when I was only 9 months then my mom left me with my grandmother when I was 2 years old. They both came to Portugal with a perspective to give me a better life, never forgetting about my or the family that they leave behind. They visited me when they could 12 years ago the internet wasn’t a reality like nowadays and I only heard them by the telephone, rarely because was to expensive. They never give up work hard like the Moldavians do, some times 12/13 hours a day 7 days a week.
After some years the go established had my sister then took me with them to Portugal when I was 8. Now I’m 21 in collage studying civil engineer and we have a decente life traveling and living the best life possible. France and Italy are the countries with most Moldovan imigrantes but Portugal in my opinion is the best country for a Moldovan very welcoming population and a easy way to get residence.
For conclusion I’m wringing this in tears missing my counting and worried about the future.
Thanks for reading this
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Pensava que a maior comunidade moldava estava em Italia, depois em Portugal e depois na França
I am feeling so bad bad for all these people... I'm from Romania, and the unique connection between Romanians from both sides of the Prut river rather called Romanians, rather Moldovans, we're one nation! I cannot be happy seeing my brothers over there suffering of material needs, food, lack of money support, poverty... My heart is broken and I hope our two Romanian countries will soon reunite as they used to be before the Soviets took Bessarabia, and help them all! Romania is already the state that cares the most about Republic of Moldova and sends to it huge amounts of money every year!!! I love you, Romanian brothers! BASARABIA E ROMÂNIA! 🇷🇴
Rares Remetan If you really wanted to help don’t send the money to their government start an organization that make sure that the money that you send goes to the people and not the government
Rares Remetan I
Thomas Shook ah yes send the 400 euro which is the average salary in Romania. You see the "why don't you send some money" thing only works on people who have money.
We don’t want reunification because romanians consider us stupid and uneducated
Huli Huli That's because it's true with some exceptions, everybody that doesn't live in the capital of Moldova is pretty dang uneducated as dropping out of school is very common there.
They divided the population between romanians and moldovan. The narrator has forgotten to mention that Republic of Moldova was part of Romania until the second world war... and was occupied by the soviets after the war...
so why can they do the smart thing and reunite.
the trend goes to reunification, but it is going to take some times after brain wash, after deportations of the elites and mass genocide by the soviets.
nene, deportații și asasinații în jur de 1 milion de oameni, profesori, preoți, primari, toată elita. iar ulterior leneșii satului au ajuns mari activiști și primari; binele și frumosul este relativ, după o perioadă de propagandă. Nu ne-au părăsit frații, ci ne-a părăsit politicienii vremii vreo 20 din consiliul de coroană, cei care nu au vrut să piardă avere și au renunțat la românii din Basarabia, te sfătuiesc să cauți imagini din București când este cedată Basarabia, cum s-au manifestat bucureșteniii. Austria și Germania nu se unesc pentru că după Al 2 lea răzb mondial, Austria a ales, sau să plătescă reparații de război dacă rămâne unită sau să fie singură. Totodată istoriac Austrai și Germania au avut dezvoltări diferite ce nu este valabil pentru noi... Ce ține de țară și naționalitate, nu există acestea în RM; Republica Moldova nu poate exista în formatul actual... poate unora cu porshe cayenne le convine situația, dar celor 1 milion de oameni care muncesc peste hotare sau celor cu pensii de 800 lei nu le convine... cei de la kormușcă mereu vreu vorbi frumos, de stat de nu știu ce, dar ce crezi că e în beneficiul celor mulți și flămânzi?
Ahhh stop this shit romanian propaganda here.
Moldova was a country before Romania was made. Was Moldova, Valachia and Transilvania. Moldova was the bravest. Romania it's a made up country like Israel
Drăguțule, I think you have no basic knowledge of history and you have no clue in the difference between a medieval state and a National one. Following your example, the Italian states, the German ones or the Russians should of never united because Prussia was before Germany and so on;
As I said before this is the truth, the propaganda comes from some people that know some parts of their history. I pity you, you deluded fools!
Great program!
It is the same all over Eastern Europe. Over 6 million Romanians left the country over the last years. Romania is part of the EU and the situation is not as bad as in Moldova, but we are not far from that. We have a whole generation of children who grew up separated from their parents. The situations presented in this film are not foreign to me, but it breaks my heart to see Moldova struggling so much. They are our brothers, we speak the same language and for many of us they are still a part of Romania. Moldova is a country extremely rich in resources, but it looks like someone has a vested interested to keep it in poverty.
I'm looking at my country with tear in my eyes and pain in my heart while I have to live in Germany separated from my entire family and friends... just can't any more, its so sad having to watch what politicians are doing w my home!!!! I can hug and kiss my mother only once a year,ugh the sadness is just overwhelming
I had a friend & co worker (Iliya) who came to NY from Moldova in the 70's. This backs up what he told me. AND WHY HE WAS SO CHEAP!
To all the Moldovans out there. My heart goes out to you. I have been living in Bulgaria for some time now, and I just want to let you know that there are options for work closer to Moldova. It is a good thing teaching your younger generation speak foreign languages. If you happen to speak French, Dutch or German, there are good job oppertunities. If you search work abroad to be able to have abetter life for you and your family, have a look at bi-lingual jobs in Bulgaria :) Mostly in contact centers or IT support
Where are you from Timo?
GREAT PEOPLE GOD BLESS YOU ALL FROM IRELAND.
I was born in Moldova and i love Ireland i met 2 lovely irish girls when i was traveling to Europe
In 1993, Moldova had a referendum on whether to unify with Romania or remain an independent country and more than 90% voted to remain independent. IMO, that was a major mistake because Romania now is in the EU and while not prosperous, is now an emerging nation. Moldova, on the other hand, isn't even fit to join the Third World. I wonder if Moldovans regret not voting for unification.
One can't stay unimpressed of the number of idiotic comments bellow. When a nation struggle to succeed due to the incompetence of the government and its sick desire to get rich to the detriment of its own citizens, they must be helped. Every single country is trying to prove one another its power, why don't the simply show their strength by supporting one in a need? They are our European brothers, they deserve to be helped!
Don't forget that not a single empire succeeded to withstand throughout millennia and their fall was felt by all the other nations in the world. But with a little help, they could reborn just like a phoenix. Luckily there are enough examples over here.
Of course you are right, but unless humanity gives up its tribal allegiances and becomes "one tribe" (which I don't think will ever happen), this is the way of the world.
AT LEAST, they learn the language - UNLIKE the self entitled destructive sometimes extremist others.
Extremists often come from one religion
REVIVE ANCIENT oh fuck off man
REVIVE ANCIENT udiot
Nice work, thanks
This is a very sad video! It was so heartbreaking to see the young boy's face and also the teenagers worrysome faces. I am from Brazil and I truly wish I could do something to help the people there. Anyone knows how's the situation now in Moldova? I wish I knew how the boy and his so caring grandmother are. This video was made 5 years ago. All my love to the Moldovan people.
Poorest country in Europe, also one of the smallest. Probably should reunite with Romania since they seem to have a real leadership deficit. It will take a real leader to turn things around here. With passion, power and a good heart, this can be turned around.
+Anna Bel Moldova has constantly changed rulers, Russian, Romanian,ottoman whatever
Катя Орлова Russia take Moldova away from Romania two years before that
Pa Ma www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2015-08-14/czechs-power-eu-s-fastest-gdp-growth-as-romania-hungary-stumble
Pa Ma www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/CZ/RO Do you realise that Romania is more than twice the size of Czech Republic and more than twice the population?
flyguyinmotion the poorest country is armenia at the moment then greece. then serbia
Woah. This is basically Romania in the 90s.
Well done and educational, thanks.
My grandmother came to US in 1901 from Lithuania. She was 20 years old and accepted as a legal citizen, she had $1.25 and she listed her occupation as servant. She became a farmer.
In have no interest in the old country, we are Americans.
I see a lot of beautiful places in this and similar other videos. I am a hindu but I am happy to see group of people socialising in church and meeting as mentioned by some of the viewers below. I see great potential in this country especially tourism . don't loose hope .. trust in your abilities keep your culture which your ancestors have passed on to you after several decades or centuries . Enjoy and cherish them and try to find way to get rid of this situation . If you see problem in you country don't desert it but join the government and correct the current situation. I wish you and all Maldivian all the best !
thats beautifuly said!
fertile land and no money, am I missing something?
Yes, the situation is indeed so bad. Most of my friends went abroad to uk, usa, europe.
If you're tempted to move to Russia, you know you've hit rock bottom. If Moldova was smart, it would become a province of Romania.
Instead of wasting Billions of Euro for Climate Change, the EU should develop Maldova by setting up some Industries.
As mexican i understand, that people leaves their country for better life, most of the guilty is because goverment in their native country is corrupted, Moldova should make commercial agreements with their neighbors, and be less controlled by Russians, Big countries always destroy the small ones, hope Moldova wake up and survive to all this.
Here in Brazil we also suffer from corruption and it is complicated ... But there I think life is more difficult because it is a small country and with little infrastructure ... Mexico and Brazil are regional powers with a great infrastructure ... I live in São Paulo and here are a lot of opportunities just as in Mexico City I believe
Wagner Rodrigues this is the same throughout the world though, Russia has immigration from Eastern Europe e.g. Moldova and Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan... Then Western Europe has immigration from the Middle East, Pakistan, India etc, USA has Mexico and Americas immigration... Everyone is moving north it seems, but historically these countries were colonies of the now host country
pay for the wall !!!
Erick Ramirez bro yes we MEXICANS some of our brother live the same situation, but Mexico is bigger than Moldova and we have more opportunities or choices this poor people they almost have nothing.
Yeah but at least your countries don't have such pisspoor birth rates as we do here in Europe (although I know that Brazil and Chile don't have the best either). Around here, whites simply never have babies above the replacement rate-if a country shows positive, it's only because of the non-European immigrants, mostly blacks and Muslims. And things are even worse in the former Eastern Bloc (although at least in Poland things are slightly mitigated by the incessant inflow of Ukrainians). Once a country with a lousy economy depopulates, it simply starts dying. In Moldova by 2050 the elderly will probably have to be evacuated from their villages or else risk simply starving to death.
Beautiful Classroom for learning a beautiful Language !!
The children are so beautiful and I Love them. Big hugs from 🇨🇦
Venezuela: Moldova hold my beer, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Disclaimer: If you think Moldovans are somehow related to russians because of their accent, they’re not they’re Romanians that speak romanian
9:43 brought tears to my eyes.
When I was 2 years old my parents moved from Moldova to Canada. I have other relatives that moved to France, Italy, Belgium, the UK, the US, Romania and the Netherlands. My mom lived in the countryside and each time we go visit my grandparents who are still there it's a reminder for what my parents fled and the sacrifice that my parents took abandoning friends and family for me and my future sister's futures. All my heart goes to my fellow Moldovans.
But it’s still okay for your grandparents to live there but not any of the others in the family
These Moldovans seem like very nice people. I wish luck to all of them
I know the feeling😢😢some teenage girls also forced to go prostitution. I met one of them...😢so disgusting..
@Lewis C shut up nigga 😒🤐
THANKS YOU,
SO SAD WHAT WORSE IS THAT THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD...LITERALLY!!!
Super informative and interesting
If this isn’t weird enough, their National anthem is “Our Language” when they basically speak Romanian
I am Indian, and I like Moldova. It's beautiful. People are poor, but they are still so humble. Other parts of the world we see poor people, but they indulge heavily in crime.
India has a similar situation, but there's plenty to eat, loads of Land to cultivate and there's a lot of rich people too. One of the highest number of Billionaires in the world, after US and China.
We are not the same,unlike moldova we dont live on money sent from abroad.We are a self sustaining economy and stop glorifying farming though it produces only 17% of gdp,cause under utlization of human resource and wastes too much water.
as a Russian i don't mind these people moving to my country.... they're hard working, good people.
*@**14:16**,* _"Bread cost 10 - 15 Lei."_ That's about $2.12 - $3.18 USD.
That's about the same cost for a loaf of bread in the US.
at the time of this comment the moldovan leu to 1 USD is like 17 lei, and the price of one bread on the most super markets is 8-12 lei so its less than one US dollar.But the averrage wage is still mostly the same as it was 5 years ago (250$) per month and the gassoline is expensive ...
Oh my God its sad seeing all these kids without their parents , words can not express 😭
Pretty sad that across the border the city of Iasi, Romania is booming economically and Moldova is stagnating. Romania is actually giving citizenship to moldovans who have lived in moldova before 1940. Romania is helping moldova while russia is making it worse.
Chisinau, and Balti, and Cahul, and bunch of other cities are developing as well, but there is a socialism-related problem: most expect to be employed, while jobs aren't as many or decently payed.
20 years ago if you told anyone he/she could become a millionaire just by Farming, they'd laugh in your face, because of the deep preconceptions about agriculture and many other "best practices" which are not being updated already.
I'm deeply sorry that the Government is too short-sighted to provide updated global data on different business types (and trade opportunities valid for Moldova), and of course, cases of corruption and bureaucracy scare people even further to "work hard" (and smart).
6:48 is those cute cat wearing a jacket too?lol
Foarte interesant! Sunt din Moldova
So interesting! I'm from Moldova! 😄
When i see this video im getting full of anger and rage
I'd love to volunteer as an English teacher in Moldova, preferably in a small town, for a few weeks every year. Any links?
good and informative video.....i lik\ve in eastern Tennessee, U.S.A. we have two girls about 19 yrs of age living and working here. they misss home much
The poverty in Moldova does not look as bad as in some parts of UK. The children look much more civilised.