Historical analysis reveals the emergence of the Gagauz secessionist movement in the Moldovan SSR, suggesting its overlooked significance in Soviet politics.
Before 1989 and the emergence of a Gagauz secessionist movement on the territory of the Moldovan SSR, even the most knowledgeable of the internal political structure of the USSR had probably never heard of the Gagauz people (or Gagauz, as it is sometimes spelled), since they never had their territorial structure within the Union.
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