Dueling Statues: The Icons of Chisinau and Tiraspol
At the entrance to the main park in Chisinau stands a bronze medieval prince who spent 47 years refusing to let the Ottoman Empire swallow his country. Two hours east by road, a Russian imperial general sits on horseback on a hill in Tiraspol, founder of the city that would become the capital of a state most of the world does not recognise. Two statues, two heroes, and two versions of history that have spent three decades simply declining to acknowledge each other.
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