22 JUNE 1941 – HISTORICAL ROOTS OF A MEMORABLE EVENT
22 JUNE 1941 – HISTORICAL ROOTS OF A MEMORABLE EVENT
Author(s): Florin ŞandruSubject(s): History
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: foreign policy; military relations; alliances; offensive; defensive
Summary/Abstract: According to the Romanian and universal historiography, the document of 22 June 1941 marked the beginning of the first Romanian-Russian war. The present article aims to emphasize such a conclusion, reviewing all the aggressive, hegemonic or annexational actions of Tsarist Russia and mostly of Soviet Russian (the Soviet Union, as of December 1922) directed against the Romanian historical territories and the Romanian national state. In the light of those mentioned, Romania’s joining the war effort of Germany against the USSR, in June 1941, appears not as a historical accident, but as the outcome of prolonged states of suspicions and latent conflict.
Journal: Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defence University (EN)
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 259-263
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
