Vara 1940 – o umilire națională (și ce spune ea despre viitorul României)
The Summer of 1940 – a National Humiliation (And What It Reveals About Romania’s Future)
Author(s): Adrian CioroianuSubject(s): Military history, Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Editura Militară
Keywords: Romania; 1940; Bessarabia; Bukovina; Nazi Germany; King Charles II of Romania; USSR;
Summary/Abstract: What happened in the summer of 1940 was not a tragedy – simply because this metaphor lacks the much needed precision when discussing Romania’s borders. A tragedy involves surprises, plot twists, unexpected interventions of fate itself. With one notable exception (the rapid capitulation of France), the facts behind our collapse in 1940 should not have been surprising in the least, many of them having accumulated for years and even decades. Indeed, the summer of 1940 represented the humiliation of the Romanian state and the collective bankruptcy of the political and military elite ruling the country.
Journal: Revista de istorie militară
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 1-4
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian