in our village we not only have russians and moldovans but also bug ariens and belarusians all kinds of nationalities fates brought us together. we live together in friendship in the collective where we worked today it's different your russian your ukrainian your ruffian your this or that or you. the new republics were also struggling with the lead to consequences of socialist planning each had always been dependent on the others and none of them could exist alone. moldova for example was the vineyard of the soviet union moldovan wines were exported all over the u.s.s.r. from moscow to minsk from leningrad to kiev.