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Baker`s endorsement of using Soviet troops to bring democracy to Romania, then, could be seen in part as an effort to argue a parallel case and bolster support for U.S. action in Panama.
In the spring of 1944, as the Soviet Red Army pushed westward, the Germans found themselves fighting a desperate retreat, ...
In May of 1944 the German Wehrmacht was in retreat everywhere in the east. With the failure of Operation Citadelle the preceding summer, initiative had finally passed to the Soviets. The only hope the ...
In the 1930s, Romania had played a massive role in the Third Reich’s strategy: it shared a huge stretch of border with the Soviet Union, which Nazi Germany was actively planning to invade; it ...
Hours after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Romania's communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, denounced the invasion to a crowd of thousands in central Bucharest. The ...
Ahead of his May 31-June 2 trip to Romania, Pope Francis on March 19 officially recognized seven Romanian Greek Catholic bishops killed under the country’s communist regime as martyrs.
1941-1944 - Romania fights on German side against Soviet Union, then switches sides as Soviet forces close in. 1945 - Soviet-backed government installed.
Romania's King Michael: WWII-Era Monarch Who Lived To See Country Emerge From Soviet Domination March 19, 2016 15:25 CET Updated December 05, 2017 19:51 CET By Eugen Tomiuc ...
The High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania on Wednesday upheld [materials] the 20-year sentence of Soviet-era prison commander Alexandru Visinescu for crimes against humanity. Visinescu was ...
CONNECTIONS | MAGAZINE I unwittingly put my pen pal at risk when I visited him in Soviet-era Romania Recently, I learned that my trip in the 1970s was considered a “stain” on the file Romanian ...