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| | Moldavian SSR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The date of the transformation of Moldavian ASSR into Moldavian SSR and its split from the Ukrainian SSR to become a separate republic of the USSR was August 2, 1940. |
 | | The republic's name was changed to the Republic of Moldova on May 23, 1991, and it declared independence after the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, exiting from the USSR on August 27, 1991. |
 | | The USSR government encouraged the developing of a "Moldavian culture", said to be distinct from the Romanian one, as well as a Moldavian language, which was claimed to be different from Romanian (although even some Soviet linguists disagreed with this). |
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