A monument of a she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, has been placed in front of the History Museum after a similar statue was removed for repairs four years ago by the Communist authorities.
The old statue is still in the process of being repaired. The new one was donated to Moldova by a Romanian organization.
The monument is a very important symbol for many Moldovans who claim the Roman and, hence, Latin heritage of the majority population in the country. It is also normally considered to assert the common ethnicity of Romanians in Moldova and Romanians in Romania.
The Party of Communists has often been accused of refusing to put the statue back because it refuses to acknowledge that the majority population in Moldova is ethnically Romanian.
Instead, many Communists have emphasized a separate Moldovan identity and have often stressed the connections the majority ethnic group has had with Slavs throughout history.
The myth of Romulus and Remus has been described in Virgil's Aeneid, and Plutarch has written a biography of Romulus. It is a commonly known story among Moldovans.
h/t www.jurnal.md
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