 Throughout the first half of 1992 the violence continued to escalate and culminated in a short, but bloody, war in late June 1992.The war left the separatists in Tiraspol with "de facto" control over most of Transnistria and the west-bank city of Bendery.However, even as the Dniester Republic grew more established as a state, the end of 1991 brought with it the collapse of the state within which the OSTK activists had originally been striving to remain