Bridge of Flowers (event)

The Bridge of Flowers (Romanian: Podul de Flori) was a massive demonstration that took place on Sunday, 6 May 1990 along the Prut River separating Romania and the Moldavian SSR.

During this action, inhabitants of Romania were allowed that day, between 1 and 7 pm, to cross the Prut River in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic without passports and visas.

[3] Inhabitants from both sides of the border, which had been tightly enforced since World War II (for two decades prior to which much of Moldova had been part of the Kingdom of Romania), gathered on each bank, many crossing what had been described as a watery Berlin Wall to see family members long separated by the frontier.

Participants began throwing flowers into the water that soon covered the surface of the river, symbolically creating a bridge between the two sides.

At noon, a group of priests celebrated a Te Deum,[8] after which church bells on both sides rang for a long time.

Our meeting with the Bessarabian brothers proves, once again, that we are one people, speaking the language of Eminescu, in the space between the Prut and the Dniester and that the Union today, which lasted only six hours, will be just a prologue of final reUnion.In terms of foreign policy, this event has been translated by establishing a priority for Romania to bring Moldova within the united Europe.