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Transnistria was one of the strangest places I ever visited. It still lives in their old Soviet times and you can find statues of Lenin everywhere. Other than t
by dejv 11y ago
Transnistria was one of the strangest places I ever visited. It still lives in their old Soviet times and you can find statues of Lenin everywhere. Other than that there is not much to do in this country.
To illustrate the state of this country, you can take a look on results of election in 2001: Igor Smirnov won, collecting 103,6% of votes.
- Muromec 11y agoIt sure is strange, look something out of this space-time, really. I'v been there in 2013 (cycling from Odessa to Chisinau). Lenin, communist symbols, Sheriff symbols, billboards advertising 3G and suddenly every sign written in Russian. Locals are scared to accept hryvnyas as payment - think it's tax office check or something. Ended up paying the price in soviet-looking monopoly money and tipping in hryvnyas. Talks about Russian military are something overestimating. Few bored "peacemakers" on Bandery bridge and locals that serve in Russian military because that's no work anywhere.
- Uberphallus 11y agoInteresting the amount of HN users have been to that little shithole (including me!). I did Chisinau to Odessa and back in marshrutki, in 2014, around the time of Yumorina. One point is that not everything is written in Russian; some is actually Romanian written in Cyrillic characters. I secretly took some pictures of the border control with my DSLR, and when they were puzzled at my passport my then gf had the brilliant idea of taking more, like, in the open. They forced us to delete them. Tried undelete tools later to no avail, unfortunately.