The best place to consider that question would not be Brussels, but Tiraspol, the capital of the entity that calls itself the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or Trans-Dniestr. This territorial sliver with a population of a half-million emerged in the early 1990’s, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union (population almost 300 million), when it broke away from the Republic of Moldova (population four million), which had separated in the 1940’s from Ukraine (population 50 million).
思考这个问题的最佳地点不是布鲁塞尔，而是蒂拉斯波尔，自称普列德涅斯特罗瓦（Pridnestrovian）摩尔多瓦共和国（或称德涅斯特河沿岸）的实体的首都。这个诞生于20世纪90年代苏联解体之后的狭长“国家”拥有50万人口（前苏联有3亿人）。它是从摩尔多瓦共和国（人口400万）分裂出来的，而摩尔多瓦又是20世纪40年代从乌克兰（人口5000万）分裂出来的。