`  : No use of ``putsch`` anywhere is acceptable. When Socor, whom I assume we both know, wrote this for RFE/RL in January 1992, he deliberately picked the word to taint the Transnistrian independence leaders. The memory of the ``putschists`` of Moscow was still fresh in everyone's mind. Socor used guilt by association, but the association was a fabrication. This was even admitted by Valeriu Muravski, Prime Minister of Moldova at the time. I will be glad to provide sources. In the same report, Socor characterized Transnistria as a stronghold of communism (for the same reasons). The truth is that Transnistria moved toward a market economy no less quickly than Moldova. -  `