cided the union of Basarabia with the mother – country), N. Barbu who invited me to participate to a field application in the north of Moldavia with the pres- ence of professor A. Louis of the University of Gent / Gand (Belgium) and pro- fessor I. Sandru to whom I presented my stage when he came from the Uni- versity of Szeged where he had held a series of speeches and who delegated Mr. Lector by them (member of the Romanian Academy nowadays) Alexan- dru Ungureanu to take care about my Iasi “schooling”. I met the professor V. Tufescu again in the sweet fair of Iasi at the end of my stage, him being the official referent of a doctorate thesis presented by the collective of geogra- phers of Iasi, the respective meeting and collegial dinner (festive dinner) held at the House of University offering me the occasion to meet (in a different context) the scientist and gentleman who was mannered, full of life. It had been another life lesson for me which I still remember. In 1974 in the context of the triad of learning – research – production (I think this was the name of the campaign of implication of superior learning system in the solving of some problems of the socialist constructions…) I par- ticipated in the performance of a contract regarding the space affected by the Romanian – Soviet hydro-energetic arrangement Stanca – Costesti. This also assumed a period of land research in Moldavian realities, in Botosani, in which I met the professor Tufescu “in working jacket, in nature’s great labora- tory” and also, once again, as a personality of Botosani county. The protocol meetings with the county great men (beginning with the first secretary) meet- ings necessary for obtaining the support of the local authorities had shown how the professor, although in the country’s capital for many years, was en- joying a great prestige in the eyes of his fellow county inhabitants. We ob- tained their concourse including the necessary logistics (minibus, official ac- commodation and others) and we went to Valea Prutului, so changed after the making of the huge barrier lake formed behind the barrage of Stanca – Cost- esti. Here / there we also made a tour of horizon over the sector that was presently under the water of the lake, following the situation of this border sector, border contoured by a thin Prut, which “took” from the professor the following memorable line “Nicule (this is how the professor used to call me) wait ‘till you see Nistru, that is a border river!”. I have already read about his investigations from the inter-war period
over true and big Moldavia, investigations appreciated by Simion Mehedinti. I distinguished in the voice of the professor that nostalgy of the man from Mol- davia very marked by the injustice that was done to the county in the summer of 1940. in time, I had the confirmation of the things he said in that day of Au- gust in 1975 about this river of imposed border. It happened in the fall of 1997, when, together with a group of students of our faculty arrived to Soroca, on the shore of Nistru, a big river, a true natural border. Then, on the walss of the stronghold of Musanti – raised to be a buckler for Moldavia in the way of evilness from East – in the wind that swirled the folds of the Romanian flag (carried by students) I told the ones that accompanied me, the cue of the pro-
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