The Soviet advisers brought the communist mindset and specific ways to implement it in Central and East European countries.
Romania entered World War II on the side of Germany in 1941 at a time when efforts to maintain peace in Europe turned out to be to no avail
In its early days, Western socialism was an ideology and social reform project aimed at alleviating the poverty of the working class. Socialism was strictly related to industry and the standard of living set by economic and social relations between factor
As early as the autumn of 1944 anti-communist and anti-Soviet resistance groups were formed in the Romanian mountains. Soldiers, students, peasants,...
An iconic figure of the struggle against communism was a peasant, Elisabeta Rizea from the village of Nucşoara.
On April 4th, 1944, a few hundred American bombers took off from Foggia, in Italy, to survey the Romanian air space and bomb targets of economic importance.
Fascist and authoritarian right-wing regimes coming to power all over Europe in the late 30s, massively relied on the radio as a means of propaganda, in a bid to gain legitimacy and consolidate their position. The same things happened in Romania.
Radio had a major educational role in its early years. Many intellectuals, politicians and social thinkers believed that it could offer continuous education for the masses, in a precarious economic and cultural situation, lifting them up to the condition
At the European Fencing Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia, Romanian athletes managed to pull a string of fine performances, which earned them numerous medals.
King Carol II of Romania was the type that would declare open conflict even to members of his own family.
In March 1948, a Resolution by the Cominform (the Communist Information Bureau) condemned Yugoslavia and its leader Tito as traitors of the communist cause and agents of the capitalist regime. As the conflict burst out between the USSR and Yugoslavia, the
During Modernity, the Romanian Principalities witnessed the widest political, administrative, economic, social and cultural transformation in their history.
Bucharest came under heavy Allied bombardment in April 1944, when the country was still fighting on the side of Nazy Germany.
