How can Romania become immune to Russian diversions

Commitment. I discovered in SENTINEL Niculae I. Herescu’s poem about Transylvania. I xeroxed it to send to Rareş Bogdan. I sent it to him accompanied by a preface text:

“A poem that every Romanian should know by heart. It appeared in SENTINEL, magazine for the Romanian military from the Eastern Campania, who were fighting in the Russian Steppes, while Transylvania was with the Hungarian Allies. The marshal, although he knew that the Hungarians would blame us for this, ordered that the Vienna Dictator should not be forgotten in public opinion. We can’t sell, refers to the Germans’ proposals to give Transylvania in exchange for Transnistria, an offer that the Marshal did not even want to hear. Beyond the meanings related to conjunctures, I liked the poem. As Transylvanian that you are, I am sending you as a gift.”

Here is the poem:

“We can’t forget you, we can’t sell you

You are dear to our hearts, Transylvania!

Your name and thought and eyes light up…

We can’t forget you, we can’t sell you,

We can’t hurt you.

The people of the steppe go about caroling

After deceptions, after looting.

You are stuck to our soul, Transylvania,

We can’t forget you, we can’t sell you

Your destiny and ours embraces it,

With the same deliverance or with the same loss.

Another thousand years, Transylvania,

We can’t forget you, we can’t sell you.

Death would be our communion,

Hell on earth would spread,

We can’t forget you, we can’t sell you,

Body from our body, Transylvania!”

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The need for maps. After studying Stalingrad, I realized that I don’t understand anything if I don’t have the map of the territory where the military operations took place in my head. Working on the essay about BOR in the Holy War I face the huge extent that the military priests have activated. The 1st Mixed Mountain Brigade crossed the Dniester at Moghilev, in the North of Transnistria, took it to the East, to the Bug, after which it went down to Odessa, was then sent to the North of the Sea of ​​Azov, fought in Crimea, to reach the Kuban. Such a route requires a map of Ukraine and South Russia. The Eastern Campaign books contain perfect maps of routes and units, defensive lines and watercourses. However, they have, at least for me, a big deficiency: they are limited to the exclusive area of ​​the fights. Or, I, reading about the localities where the Rechristianation of Russia went, I need the overall picture of the road traversed by a great unity. I struggled a lot to find such maps on the Internet. Until last night, when I remembered that I have a truckload of foreign, expensive atlases at home, lying on a low shelf in one of the rooms.

Come to the shelf!

I found and photographed (with the mobile phone, the tablet does not come out well) 21 maps. I now have the big picture of the War in the East. And when I start rereading a book about a certain area, I know where a route started and where it ended. Now, when I write, I remember that in SENTINEL overall maps of the Campaign, nicknamed the Crusade, were given. The collection is on the reading room window, next to my place at the last table. I have to get up and check if it is.

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I was writing on April 30, 2014. How can Romania become immune to Russian diversions

Monday evening, at Power games, from Realitatea Tv, I was telling Rareş Bogdan that the disaster in Ukraine has its main cause in the weak and stunted rule of law. Crimea would not have ended up being conquered by a Russian action in the blink of an eye, if the state institutions had been functioning there, in that Ukrainian territory. In Crimea, as in Eastern Ukraine, as in Kiev, by the way, the Oligarchs speak for themselves. Like Romania, Ukraine is feudalized, divided between oligarchs, who own the army, police, press and politicians. Neither the bloody provocations on Euromaidan, nor the coup by which the legitimate president was driven from power, nor the storming of the institutions in Eastern Ukraine, would have been possible if the Ukrainian state had been strong. I was saying on Reality TV that Russia acted in Crimea and is acting in the East of Ukraine, calling for diversions. Yes, but these diversions would have been a complete failure if Ukraine had been a state and not a pie with oligarchs as the kernel. That’s why – I said, replying in a way to the warmongers from here, who want Romanian blood shed for the sake of the Ukrainians – what Romania must do in the next period is to strengthen the rule of law. This mainly means dismantling PSD fiefdoms of local barons, supporting the DNA, removing the media from the power of the money, because it was obtained by the moguls by looting the country.

NOTUm: This editorial is taken in its entirety from cristoiublog.ro