 This process was also amplified by the excessive militarization of the area.The 1989 adoption of the Law on state language (official language) and Law on functioning of languages on the territory of the MSSR generated an extremely negative reaction in the industrial centres of Transnistria, where the largely Russian-speaking population was not being consulted, and felt threatened by the prospects of Romanianization.These laws proclaimed the Moldovan (Romanian) language, written in the Latin alphabet, as the only state language.