ROMANIAN HISTORIC MISFORTUNES

A "POCKET " CHRONOLOGY

Romanians: people of Aryan remote origins, born within the CARPATHO-DANUBIAN ZONE and whose forefathers' active migration towards West would later generate the European population, while towards East, the Hindu-Asian one.

We used to possess, throughout our beginnings as "Pelasgians", an extremely large area within nowadays so called "EASTERN EUROPE", that was extending itself "far and away" from both shores of the majestic Danube River, namely until beyond what is today called Slovakian space to the North and over the entire Balkan Peninsula to the South; to the East, up to outrunning Bug River's fields, whereas to the West, Pelasgians were to be found even across most regions from today's Austria. The Greeks' massive invasion (which some "historians" have rushed to baptize "Great Colonization"), who were to arrive over us from the Eastern banks of Caspian Sea, between 1,900-1,600 B.C., and settle on the Southern parts (including islands) of Balkan Peninsula, would drive a significant part of the local Thracian-Pelasgian population towards its North. Therefore, along the centuries to come, later (Geta-Thraco-Dacian-) Pelasgian groups were going to be properly named in accordance with the geographical area where each had sought refuge from the invaders (namely, Illirians, Macedonians, Geta-Dacians, Scythians, Carps, Costhoboks, just the way our contemporary Romania's inhabitants are still called Moldavians, Transylvanians, Wallachians, yet also as natives of Banat, Ialomitza, Dobrudja regions), and NOT because of some "keeping up" with the SPOKEN LANGUAGE, which was the SAME.

After the year 106 A.D., only about 14% from ancient Dacia's territories being (partially) conquered by and "unified" to the Roman Empire (see Roman Emperor Trajan's two bloody campaigns, between 101-102 A.D. and 105-106 A.D., versus our heroic King Decebalus-"Braveheart"), we were going to be named as "ROMANS" for... just some 165 years, period after which Emperor Aurelianus orders both his troops and Administration to abruptly retreat at the South of Danube.

During the sixth century A.D. come the first Slavonic tribes, who were going to "settle tight" along the same Danube's Southern region, thus geographically separating us forever, through their compact settling, into two large "brotherhoods" located at the Northern and Southern neighboring areas. We would, nevertheless, continue to maintain intact our long-lasting customs and language until nowadays (still, the latter was to later develop into four main sub-dialects, respectively DACO-ROMANIAN for the Northern group AND MACEDO-ROMANIAN, MEGLENO-ROMANIAN or HISTRO-ROMANIAN for the other).

The second Hungarian invasion (which happened during centuries IX-X A.D.) manages to temporarily detach back then, through military force, Transylvania from our country, but still, the Romanian majority living over there would face humiliation and repression with dignity, while totally resisting to maintain virtually unchanged both their language and characteristic habits.

The XII-th century would mark the vicinity forming of so called "GREAT ROMANO-BULGARIAN EMPIRE", at the South of Danube River, a fact which was to impose Ionita Caloianu, "the Sheperd-King" from Asanesti family as its charismatic representative. The same XII-th century brings us, as well, the Gypsies' invasion (who would mass-migrate from an impoverished India to "infest" most of the European lands); we couldn't have got, instead, "luckier"...

The Middle Age Turkish Empire's invasion, occurring on a large scale throughout the XV-th century, would be an expansionistic wave full of atrocities, yet, strangely enough, it wasn't going to affect us in any way regarding our spoken language or customs; moreover, paradoxically, Turks were going to become, afterwards, the ones to protect us from an emerging Austro-Hungaro-Russian combined rapacity.

The Russians' premier arrival to the Nister River (situated, once, at our North-Eastern previous boundaries), during year 1792, which was to "bring" us, right away, a first "present" from their future-to-be "lists" (according to the late Czar Peter "the Great's" totalitarian Will directions) for the so called "satellite" countries: a total (and definitive) loss of our territory situated between Bug and Nister.

In the year of 1812 Russians would accede up to the Prut River (a leading part being "played" here by their General Kiseleff), to start a (first) temporary occupation of... our Bessarabia.

The years 1877-1878: Romanian Royal Army comes to join the Russians' into a fierce and ultimately victorious conflict against the then-decadent Turkish Empire, through what has nationally become known as our "INDEPENDENCE WAR". As a result, the Russian Czar Nicolai would understand to show his "gratitude" towards our "helping hand" (that is, bravery and lots of casualties suffered at Plevna, Rahova, Vidin, Smardan etc.) by... taking away the three unoccupied left districts in Southern Bessarabia (namely, Kahul, Bolgrad and Ismail), meanwhile "giving" us back the QUADRILATER REGION at the South of Danube, near the Black Sea, a land which anyway belonged, and still belongs to us "de facto et de jure".

A quite large part of the Western Romanian region of BANAT is plainly being offered to the Serbs, as a Royal "wedding present" to his sister, by "our" young, immature King Michael of... Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; alas, poor Romania, what have thy become?!... Poor people of Banat... The ill-fated, so called "year of the MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT", 1940: it marks a top-secret agreement between Hitler and Stalin, marking BESSARABIA's reoccupation campaign by our Soviet "friends" (until 1941, and from 1944 till nowadays), whereas TRANSYLVANIA is being granted to fascist Hungary through the VIENNA DIKTAT (fortunately, just until 1945, when Romanian Armies march a second time over Budapest) and the QUADRILATER REGION is taken back, through the CRAIOVA DIKTAT, again by Bulgarians (until nowadays as well!).

AUGUST 23-rd, 1944: the historical act of arresting Romanian Marshall Antonescu at the King's Palace, in Bucharest, and turning weapons against Nazi Germany, which would soon afterwards prove to have been a deed of high national treason, mainly because of the "Romanian communists'" deep involvement (actually, agents of the Komintern). These would immediately dedicate themselves to the purging of our top politicians and Army leaders, while transforming our country into a powerless, Russian-dominated communist "satellite" for the next 45 years to come.

The year 1944: on before shown "basis" the victorious Soviet, "brotherly" neighbor would again occupy "their" BESSARABIA up to the present days, when they figured to better installing a Moscow-controlled, but so called "independent" puppet Government at "Kishinev" (the real Romanian name of County's capital being CHISINAU) and renaming it as... "the MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC"! The same year 1944: marks the happening of another Soviet "temporary" occupation ("only for two decades", to quote Stalin's Foreign Minister, Molotov's sarcastic remark back then) of Romanian lands, namely of BUKOVINA and the HERTZA REGION, both of which were to share Bessarabia's sorrow through fate, and are still "waiting" nowadays for some Justice.

The years 1945-1989: the Yalta secret agreement among Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill (which was to merciless split the so called "superpowers' influence zones" over Europe's smaller countries, and DID "COMMUNIZE" US for almost five decades) was said to have had its contemporary correspondent through the no less classified meeting of Malta, between Bush-Gorbachev. Nothing has been published, yet, about the "main topics" on their agenda, and only rumors say that "the Iron Curtain" was to "move" a little bit towards East while becoming a "Silk" one; in exchange for the Philippines and Panama Canal, the Soviets were to still continue dominating Christian-Orthodox nations, except for Greece, fortunately a N.A.T.O. member already. Thus, Bulgaria, 66% of Romania (since Transylvania had long been considered as being overall Catholic) and 50% of former Yugoslavia were to "belong" to the Soviets in the future as well. The unexpected (?!) dismantling of former Soviet Union seems, however, to have brought chaos within all these geo-political projects but, meanwhile, Yugoslavia has already been "put to pieces"... Who's next?

December 22-nd 1989: Romanian communist dictators Nicolae Ceausescu and wife are overthrown and assassinated by a handful of conspirators, most of them former high-ranking communists and... suspected K.G.B. agents, with a master "cover-up" help from Moscow's experts to make it look like a popular revolt, with its invisible "terrorists" and almost 2,000 victims... A so called period of "reform and transition towards market economy" cannot hide the reality of previous second-ranking aparatchniks taking over the country (through the otherwise called "NEO-COMMUNISM IN DISGUISE", or "CRYPTO-COMMUNIST REGIME"), the opposition being constantly harassed and intimidated, free press silenced by all possible means, the miners, or other working categories being at times incitated against democratic intellectuality and some people who knew too much being periodically "eliminated". Meanwhile, although the general level of poverty makes her day-to-day survival efforts more and more difficult, the Romanian population continues to... exist, waiting for better times.