RĂZBOIUL DIN RĂSĂRIT ŞI PERSPECTIVA TRAGICĂ A COMUNIZĂRII ROMÂNIEI REFLECTATE ÎN MEMORIALISTICA LUI MIRCEA ELIADE
The war in the East and the tragic perspective of the communization of Romania as reflected in Mircea Eliade’s memorial writings

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the starting of the War in the East, Mircea Eliade, a press attaché and cultural councilor of the Romanian Legation in Lisabona, evokes in his Portuguese Diary a series of politico-military and geopolitical considerations, demonstrating intuition and political realism, and especially an undissimulated interest and an agonizing anxiety regarding the fate of Romania. At the same time, throughout the dramatic deployments on the east front, Eliade condemns defeatism, capitulating and negotiating spirit shown by certain Romanian politico-diplomatic circles, intimately hoping to the Anglo-Americans’ victory, eluding their alliance to Stalin. The Romanian’s defeat in the East more and more visibly indicates the apocalyptic vision of the communization of Romania and of Eastern Europe. This dramatic end as expression of the terror of history is more and more present in the savant’s consciousness after the disaster of Stalingrad and the tragedy of the Romanian army of Cotul Donului. Reflections and interpretations in the Diary reveal not only the interest of a diplomat on mission to serve his country but especially the consciousness of a first rank Romanian intellectual, of a "Romanian fanatic", as he would himself designate himself, attentive and participating with his heart to the catastrophe which was about to take place.

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