https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/episode-7-myth-35gas.mp3 Well, the truth is rather complicated, so I understand why a lot of people get confused about this, but the short answer is no. The long answer is that this is a map of PMR: As you can see, there’s the Republic of Moldova to the west and Ukraine to the east. In the “old d…

https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/podcast-6-myth-35.mp3 You’d be surprised how often you hear that Transnistria is a super dangerous country to visit, especially if you’re an American. Even when my wife and I first visited Tiraspol, we were told lots of scary shit, including that we’d be immediately arrested and thrown in jail if…

https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/podcast-5-myth-50.mp3 Of course, if you’re a Western European or American academic or a Western media news crew, you are not allowed to say anything good about Pridnestrovie. Not once, and not ever. And if you’re Romanian, that goes double true for you. But many tourists somehow make their way to…

https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/podcast4myth19.mp3 Well, yes and no. Let’s call this one partially mythologized. While it is technically true that Pridnestrovie has money that’s made out of plastic, what they’ve created is actually pretty amazing. The Pridnestrovian next-gen ruble “coin” is a true technological marvel. These ru…

https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/episode-3.mp3 Nope, not Communist at all. Sorry! In fact, the Communist Party is the opposition party in Pridnestrovie. They won just one seat in the 43-seat parliament during the last election. And their deputy is currently in jail (check out #17!) The Pridnestrovian economy is completely non-Co…

https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/podcast-episode-2.mp3 Utter hogwash. Not only have I heard many, many people speaking Romanian in public in Pridnestrovie, I’ve also done it myself. At least one-third of the people who live in Pridnestrovie speak the language, so I don’t know where this rumor came from, but it is a rather persis…

I see so much negative and misinformed reporting on the republic that I simply felt compelled to try and clear up some of the myths surrounding the “country that does not exist.” https://kingofromania.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/podcast-episode-1.mp3 Over the past 1,000 years, the area now known as Transnistria has had a lot of names, but none o…