Doi din est, După optzeci de ani
Two from the East, after eighty years

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the fate of two fighters on the Eastern Front in World War II, Lieutenant Mihai (Mişu) Bădulescu and Cavalry Lieutenant Radu Ionescu. Although completely different in nature, a friendship was forged between them that lasted until death. For both, the Eastern campaign marked the beginning of disaster. Mişu loses his right arm during the battles for Odessa. Radu is shot in the hip in the battles of Stalingrad and the bullet hit his sciatic nerve. For his deeds of arms, Lieutenant Mihai Bădulescu is decorated with the Iron Cross but also a Knight of the Order of Mihai Viteazu by Marshal Ion Antonescu and King Mihai I. Afterwards, the communism came for both Mişu and Radu. They had to lose their tracks somehow. Less than thirty years old, their careers destroyed, each of them sought to live. Their memories, not only their memory, were and remained, despite the tragedy, an occasion for light, an occasion for laughter and vitality. Their meetings – a ray of joy, camaraderie, brotherhood.

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