The Cooperation Military Exercise developed by the Warsaw Treaty Organisation October, 26th - November, 3rd 1966
The Cooperation Military Exercise developed by the Warsaw Treaty Organisation October, 26th - November, 3rd 1966

Summary/Abstract: Gheorghiu-Dej wanted in fact increased autonomy within the Soviet bloc, along with maintaining the Communist system in Romania and saw Moscow only as the agent ensuring the political, economical and military protection of all the states in Central and South-Eastern Europe that were under its influence. In such circumstances, the relationship between the Romanian and the Soviet military rapidly deteriorated. One example is the cooperation application of the Soviet, Romanian and Bulgarian military signal forces developed in the Black Sea in the period 8-11 March 1965 (only days before the death of the Romanian Workers' Party leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej). The Romanian Marine Forces participating in the operations questioned at that time the decision of the commander of the application, vice-admiral Cernobai, chief of the General Staff of the Black Sea Fleet of USSR, to consider that the maritime fleet of Romania was part of a ‘joint fleet” of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. “The friendship among people” had to be in the foreground again for the public from Romania and the Soviet Union. The political directions had to be closely followed even though, behind the group picture, the tensions between Moscow and Bucharest were more and more visible.

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