Cultural survival can be difficult for any culture. In any cases, its the older generation that still are practicing the culture and the younger generation is "modernized".
Considering that from 1946 to 1947 there was a famine that had affect Moldova, staring about 350,000, the Gagauz people were surely apart of that. All ready having a small population, this famine had killed about half of the Gagauz people in certain villages.
Another part of the culture that is slowly getting lost is the language. Like I said in other post, Gagauz was not a "real" language. This language is mostly spoken in parts where the traditions are still practiced by a small group of people. Luckily there are still books and other stuff that show this language and can still be studied.
Traditionally, the Gagauz people were a sedentary society. This means that they had their own permanent towns and/or cities. With that being said, there was not many changed due to collectivization. Most of the citizens are bilingual with having Russian as the second language.
Sometimes even the older generations have the knowledge of knowing many different languages, especially the women of the family. Since many had to leave and go away for work, the different languages steamed from there.
Even if a Gagauz person were to marry a non-Gagauz person, that person will still know the Gagauz language because there is still evidence to study it.
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