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TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.

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