I’ve recently had a travel article published in the latest issue of Shoestring Travel Magazine. It’s about Transdniestr – the last remaining communist state on the old Eastern bloc – and here’s how it starts:
“1989 was a watershed moment for Europe. It was the year when Poland, after 44 years of stringent Soviet rule, finally turned its back on the communist ideal. This act of defiance was the spark that lit the fire of revolution across Eastern Europe, and within the next three years East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and more than a dozen other socialist states – including Russia itself – had overthrown their respective governments and entered a new era of capitalist democracy. Communism in Europe was dead and buried.
Well, almost buried. For as the world watched Poland and co. march towards a bright new dawn, no-one seemed to notice that one tiny piece of the Eastern Bloc had been left behind…”
If you’d like to read more, simply click here for the whole article. Or you can visit the Shoestring website to read the entire issue for free. I’ve also been commissioned to write for the next Shoestring Magazine, so watch this space.
Excellent article! Who’d have thought there was still communism thriving in Europe? Scary!!!
I’m in Odessa in a couple of weeks and was planning to go to Transdniestr/Transnistria for a day trip so it’s great to read this summary of what I can expect. Now I really can’t wait! Any idea what Odessa is like too?
I really like Shoestring Magazine – and free too! Thanks for the heads up
I heard about this place the other day so I just Googled ‘Transdniestr travel article’ and this popped up. Very informative, thanks a lot!!!!