Why did Romania switch sides in WW2

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Gould Lee, Arthur (1998), Coroana contra secera și ciocanul. Povestea regelui Mihai al României, ISBN 973-28-0829-2
Giurescu, Dinu C. (1999). România în al doilea război mondial. București: Editura ALL EDUCATIONAL. ISBN 973-684-036-0.
Constantiniu, Florin, O istorie sinceră a poporului român An Honest History of the Romanian People), Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, Bucureşti, 1997, ISBN 973-9243-07-X (in Romanian)
Silviu Brucan, The Wasted Generation: Memoirs of the Romanian Journey from Capitalism to Socialism and Back, Westview Press, 1993
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[@mariovanderwal1695]

This comment section is a true mess. Young Romanians liking pro monarch comments, Romanian boomers liking anti-communism comments. Hungarians disliking Romanians. Romanians disliking Hungarians. Non Romanian or Hungarian people making Italy jokes. Italians getting mad at Italy jokes. A true mess

[@cudanmang_theog]

Nope. Most Romanian and Hungarian people are friendly and are not xenophobes

[@mariovanderwal1695]

@@cudanmang_theog I'm not talking about most Hungarians and Romanians, I know plenty of Hungarians and Romanians and know they are friendly. I'm just talking about this comment section.

[@duxromanorum9861]

welp hungarians are known to troll us in every video that even barely mentions romania or the vlach people smh

[@Bayard1503]

And what's wrong with a little mess?? That's what we Europeans are all about :))

[@pl0tka123]

@@mariovanderwal1695 Yea from Transylvania or intellectual circles of both countries, but this nationalist shit worked for many governments (including commies), even after joining EU so yea.

[@TheVlp3r]

the sad fate of being the small guy(s) in between great powers, Romania played this " I'm allied with one cuz the other is scarier" game for centuries, trying to survive

[@theironphoenix.]

And Poland is playing the Let’s allied the west because I don’t wanna get raped again card.

[@pinacollada7961]

Vlp3rKing it’s sad how horrific ideologies and disturbing influencers divide our country to this day. almost 30 years after those soviet fucks left their mark here.

[@theMcWOPPER]

More like game of the millennia

[@Danieldbs09]

That's what every country was supposed to do. If they had a stronger neighbour, alliance with them in any war was their priority, so that they don't end up on the losing side

[@23chill7]

Totally not true Do some research first

[@AleksandarDinkov]

I feel sorry for Romania as just like my country (Bulgaria) they had to constantly switch sides to avoid worst case scenarios. I understand their pain as we were used as pawns by the bigger countries as well!

[@lucianmiron3911]

Българи, наши братя

[@alexandruandrei8212]

i am romanian eu sunt roman

[@cleo-chan813]

Mulțumesc frumos/ thank you!

[@alexconstantin7228]

Yeah, but the Bulgarians pushed us around too.

[@AndreiYoLo]

But Romania still got coruption and criminals from Russia this very day... 2022 that they control the law..

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

Romania always seems to get the short end of the geopolitical stick, always fought over by someother empire that doesn't represent them, and yet they maintain their own independence. Romanians are proud people for good reason because of what they've endured.

[@pi3tr3]

...now add some 45yrs of communism to this and you'll get some idea of the shit we've been through. still, there are countries on the African continent who went to worse.

[@szabolcsrobertgergely2244]

Just like Hungary...

[@abunea]

Hungary was involved in ruling the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One could argue that even the Hungarian Kingdom was an empire, considering how many nations were under the rule of Hungarians. No offense there but Hungary was one of the major powers we struggled against. Along with the Ottomans, Poles, Russians

[@szabolcsrobertgergely2244]

@@abunea Yes, the kingdom was a major power at that time. However, after that everything got downhill. We were under the ottomans, then Austrians(like even in austro-hungary time, we didn't have any major influence outside of our borders(like it was more of a parasite situation)) then after the breakapart a straight 100 year struggle just for our freedom... For last 600 years everything was just for our freedom.

[@Fabioonn]

Who forced Romania to join ww1? Twice.

[@andreig4252]

I had the oportunity to meet a romanian veteran who fought at Stalingrad about 10 years ago. The poor soul still remembered in detail a lot of things about his battle and how his fellow soldiers were killed near him daily. He even still knew army songs and poems from the war. I was just a kid. That man sparked my interest in ww2 history and history in general. Was such a powerful story to hear and picture. God bless his brave soul

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you for sharing his story!

[@CodrutNistor]

I had two grandparents who fought in WW2, both taken prisoners at Odessa. Both lived to return in Romania and tell the tale. One of them didn't talk much for the rest of his life, sadly. When he returned (it was some 6-7 years after the end of the war) he had completely forgotten his own language...

[@catalintican5530]

My both grandfathers fought both the Russians and the Germans . I am proud of them!

[@sebastiansuteu1829]

@@gamingmd2135 aha,cum zici tu

[@FanVikingMetal]

@@gamingmd2135 Ca voi n-ati lins sandalele rusilor si polonezilor, depinde care era mai aproape:))

[@gramarazvan4171]

For the record, just imagine that the King Mihai was only 21 when doing that, i am 21 and i don't know where the fk is my charger

[@madalinaf3025]

I am 32, similar situation, my friend! :))

[@madalinaf3025]

@Joe endless opportunities! :)

[@Dan-ul1hd]

he had almost 23 years on 23 august 1944. He was born on 25 october 1921.

[@joannaradacina2585]

Awsome comment🙋‍♀️

[@bogdanradulescu870]

He was a puppet for the Bolscheviks

[@robiagacitei5487]

Romania was indeed more of a "major" nation during ww2. Being the 2rd largest army in the axis and supplying 60% of all of axis oil. Much love to Romania from France, and yes, it was larger and overall better equipped than italy. We all seen italy in ww2... Despite its good navy, The italian army wasnt as good as Romania. Much love to both nations from France.

[@Dark_F0r3st34]

Im a 15 yrs romanian and if you want i can say you all romania story and whats happening now in our country

[@Archonsx]

romania used to have a strong army, but now we basically have no army at all, we’re more oriented towards capitalism and business

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@Archonsx why would u need army

[@eddiemitza2544]

@@QWERTY-gp8fd It's not like there's a war raging at our borders, right? smh...

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@eddiemitza2544 but romania is in nato. u going to be protected by nato nukes anyway. so why need army.

[@adevariubire9236]

Hungarian here. Born in Romania. I love Hungarians. And I love Romanians. End of story.

[@abdulhakimsaid9264]

İsten aldasaval!!!

[@oannac1344]

We love you also :) In Cluj, we have Hungarian and Romanian people, and we love each other :)

[@budi_ghk4015]

If you love Romanians say "fu k Franz Sulzer and Robert Roesler:)

[@abdulhakimsaid9264]

@@budi_ghk4015 ?!?!

[@adrianmanolache4656]

Very Happy for you , my friend ! I am Romanian and have Hungarian Romanians married to members of my family! Love and Respect between Romanians and Hungarians are centuries old and always be there for the future generations ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@germanhess9995]

Greetings from Latin America to the Romanian people , in 7 years I will be living in Iasi after my retirement.

[@alexandrufilipescu1301]

Por que?

[@justreal4379]

Welcome!

[@petrevarvara7444]

Interesting , maybe we can trade places :) you can have " Plaiurile Mioritice " I was born there , I escaped the communism in the 80 never been back . I will retire in couple years Seriously consider taking same exploratory trips to South America . Dont like cold winters animore :)

[@germanhess9995]

@@petrevarvara7444 I live in Costa Rica, in Central America and I hate this continent. I am anxiously waiting for the moment when I can leave to Romania. =)

[@germanhess9995]

@@alexandrufilipescu1301 porque América Latina es un asco, vivo en Costa Rica y estoy ansioso por poder irme de acá y me agrada lo que he averiguado sobre Rumanía.

[@christopherlupoi]

You never mentioned the promises Britain made to Romania but betrayed them for Greece at the peace conference

[@syk47]

Mad romanian right here boys

[@aglassofmilk5779]

Christopher Lupoi what were they

[@Dourios_96]

???

[@fifi_2456]

They betrayed us so we all emigrated to london Sounds like a good deal

[@alexandrub8786]

@@Dourios_96 the amount of influence UK and Soviet Union will have over the eastern states that was negocieted at Yalta uk had 90% on Greece while the soviets in Romania the reason was that they wanted dominance in Mediteranian Sea.

[@adamarinescu1176]

Respect, Knowledgia!!! I find your description of those cloudy days, the most accurate. Thank you for taking the time to search and explain the ww2 faith of my beloved Romania.

[@mihaelazlate4729]

So many years of history and 20 years of tv talkshows about this subject and only now i inderstand everything from a 10 mins video… Thats amazing!!! Thank you.

[@robertpucovsky]

Very interesting how tables have turned. I didn't quite know how things played there for our fellow neighbors. Hello from Serbia!

[@oakeru6991]

Thanks Robert! Kossovo is Serbia! With love from Romania, for our best neighbors!👍

[@darianeacsu5163]

@@oakeru6991 Ai auzit ce se întâmplă cu românii din Timoc frate?

[@oakeru6991]

@@darianeacsu5163 da, am auzit! Povestea e foarte complexa si ar merita dezbatuta, ca de la om la om, intre noi si ei. Nu e vina sarbului de rand ca autoritatile se manifesta abuziv. Au si ei, la fel ca noi, o gramada de politicieni idioti!

[@tonypavko1968]

How come there is no serbia

[@oakeru6991]

@@tonypavko1968 it is, my friend! Ancient serbian territory! Sorry, but this is the historical truth!

[@davidtrusty676]

Let‘s not forget Liechtenstein sending 80 men and returning with 81 cause they made a friend :)

[@simi1391]

Haaa ha🤣🤣😊👍

[@ijustatemydog980]

Whahahaha

[@MilkmanSuper]

big *S T O N K S*

[@anonUK]

That was 80 years before.

[@chefboyardee2711]

Wrong war

[@diana.bacircea]

All these years of war, and our map ends up looking like a fish:)))

[@k0mentator507]

@@HoxtonLive cool comment. Back to redpill incel subreddit with you

[@mr.k7199]

That was the goal from the very beginning. Now we are complete

[@rocky2195]

Such an accurate, brief but comprehensive video. Congrats and keep up the good work!

[@Me2Lancer]

Being a buffer state between major powers is the pits. Considering their geography, maybe the Romanians have done rather well. Wishing the best to my friends in Romania.

[@Kazumo]

Right back at you, kind sir.

[@HypercopeEmia]

As a pole I can confirm It's not nice to be a buffer state. Pro tip: instead o fbeing a buffer state become so stronke that you are no longer the buffer state but the major power

[@bibleboy1147]

@@HypercopeEmia Instead of being a buffer state make your neighbors the buffer state

[@georgepopescu1327]

Well we did survive as a nation which itself its a great achivement in this part of Europe but that's pretty much all. The the past 700 years, which some minor expections like the unification, surviving was the only thing we did.

[@georgepopescu1327]

@Random Man those are not the results of a national collective effeort ment to push us forward. I was talking about achievements that might have had a serious impact economically and socially in our country.

[@JFairhart]

The classic situation of damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[@DJanestezik6529]

it's always the good ones that have to die.

[@WhySoSerious551]

Agreed Mr Farquhart, between a rock and a hard place.

[@dand7763]

correct! , Romania was made like a sandwich between Nazy Germany and Soviet Russia in 1940-1941! we despise soviets...so...from 2 evil empires , we choose one , to survive...i think , hard to be in charge of ruling Romania in 1939-1941, don't know what to choose Hitler promise in June, 1941 to Ion Antonescu to give back Moldova to Romania (occupied by USSR in the previous year , 28 june, 1940) if Romania will join Axis for Operation Barbarossa...so...the rest is history ...even nowadays Republic of Moldova (ex romanian land until 28 june 1940) is a buffer state made by Russia against NATO *(Romania is a member NATO since 2004)* that's why *Russia of Putin wants Ukraine to not become NATO member* ...see current tensions in the region , Russia wants their neighbors as a shield ,BELARUS is pro Russia and is an ally of Putin ,and Ukraine want to escape from Russia and to choose her path (pro E.U. and NATO) , but Putin say NO! "...hmmm, i felt a great disturbance in the Force" (Master Yoda)

[@eEmm1]

@@dand7763 Ucraina a fost special creată (artificial) de sovieti ptr a servi ca o zonă buffer. Din pământ furat, exact ca Moldova.

[@truthlove2913]

I am a Christian and I am hungarian and I love România and I was born there.

[@majstter7420]

Are you Szekely?

[@aripadreaptatherightwing6028]

Salut!

[@papaszem44]

Traitor

[@anar3662]

As a romanian, I am happy to find this accurate video of my country’s history and a very important moment. I had the chance to shake the hand of King Michael and his wife-they came to my school, without cameras and media, he was so humble, simple and the only true leader Romania had in decades. He was in his ‘70 and people still remembered him with great respect and love-outside my school there was a small group of older people who spontaneously gathered after finding out about his presence and shouted monarchic slogans. It took me years to find out the true information about this historical moment and what a great impact it had on the war- shortening it with 6 months and saving millions of lives, as Romania was the pain provider of oil for Hitler’s Germany.

[@DJFlying82]

So rather you join the nazis and killed a millions of Russian civillians and sacrafice around 300 000 Romanian soldiers! Very Poor!

[@11EdYi11DrQwartz]

my grand grand parent was friend with him and thought him to ride a motorcycle

[@tjb189215]

Their geographic location has always created a situation where they must play the East vs. the West to survive.

[@dearomania8289]

Exactly

[@ShortTraveling]

@3rrlia you know the best! I bet you know our history better! How would you think a small country will survive between 3 big hostile empiers! Your brain is just a small potato! Use it!

[@cr4yv3n]

Because the west is full of cowards and traitors and Russia is evil

[@issecret1]

@3rrlia are you an idiot? The Americans are seen as pretty beloved allies in Romania, they're not occupying us, why would we say that?

[@razvan4553]

@@issecret1 lol because they did occupy romania. :D Open your eyes

[@Armageddon2077]

Short answer: They thought they could pull off the same thing that Finland and Greece would go on to succeed in doing.

[@andreicocor4383]

Actually greece has been successfully invaded by the Germans

[@adonissherlock]

@@andreicocor4383 He meant make an armistice and prevent communism by exiting the war at just the right moment

[@hriscubogdan2292]

If we did that, the Hungarians would have invaded us, most probably. At the time, Romania was alone and Hungary had Germany by it's side.

[@plzfixwolves955]

@@hriscubogdan2292 Not to mention the oil fields. But it would be hard to get away with it if you have Soviet forces occupying their territory.

[@Peristerygr]

@@andreicocor4383 Υes but during the NAZI GERMAN occupation of Greece there where collaborators and they claimed that germans came as friends to save greece from communism. Maybe he is an offspring of those collaborators. I don't thing Quinsling would say and claim that Norway was occupied by the Germans! ;)

[@Theodwarf11]

My great grandfather was one of the POWs taken to the Soviet gulags, he was tortured and overworked as you'd expect but managed to escape and walk all the way back home to Romania on foot. Basically, if he hadn't been the badass he was, I wouldn't have been alive right now, what a chad.

[@iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431]

King Michael, from what I'm learning, was a dog-faced traitor who is personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, as well as stabbing an ally in the back. Atronescu seems like the good guy of history, but then again I could have this all wrong. What are your thoughts?

[@bogdan198810]

@@iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431 you have learned the exact opposite

[@VlOREL]

Same here. Definitely hardcore Chads. Even now, 22 years after my grandpa's death, everytime life seems hard i remember his stories and instantly feel ashamed. Most of us don't even realize watta great time to be alive is 2022 (our hearts are with 🇺🇦).

[@obiwankenobi1900]

I am a roumanian too and i had a grand-grandfather Who was a sergeant in World War 2 and won a lot of medals. Unfortunately, during a battle, a grenade landed and exploded near him and he lost his fingers from one arm, but he survived The war

[@vladdumitrescu9012]

He must have had the higher ground!

[@romanianballmapping2024]

its called romanian💀

[@adr1899g]

​​@@romanianballmapping2024ambele versiuni sunt valabile.

[@minune8921]

they say: The germans took our eggs, but the russians eat the chikens and then came back asking for the eggs.

[@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240]

Russians gave you both chickens and eggs in a first place , otherwise you are still just subjects of turks,

[@sebastianmuresan2265]

@@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240 i think someone skipped the history lessons about Mircea the elder and Vlad Tepes. Google it and come back with a smarter answer.

[@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240]

@@sebastianmuresan2265 Yeh, it was the only time in history Romanians could fight :) Otherwise they lost every single conflict for the las 1500 years.

[@sebastianmuresan2265]

@@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240 it wasn't the only time, 1453 i think was the year of the late crusade, also involved and won. But your point is not wrong, romania was in inferiority, we had to.carefully chose our battles, through diplomatic powers or with great strategists since we were under oppression most of the time.and we sisnt get the luxury to pick our leaders but rather the other empires did that for us so that we.d never get ebough power to revolt, yet here we are and for some.reason you are mad that we made it as a sovereign nation despite the odds?

[@issecret1]

@@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240 and where are you from, oh great keyboard warrior?

[@makita3680]

Short answer: 1.They were already betrayed by the Axis with the Ribentropp-Molotov pact and Second Vienna Award. 2. They were invaded by the Soviets. 3. Germany attacked first after Romania offered them an armistice.

[@doggi3216]

@@_bob9740 The only friends we had were Yugoslavia Czehoslovakia and Poland. None of those countries survived ww2. Please shut up and dont try to enter Romanian history without knowing it.

[@doggi3216]

@@_bob9740 Oh yea true we could have steamroled trough Germany with no tanks just infantry and horses yea alright. Might aswell try to take Moscow in less then a day right? You are stupid. What could a country with low stabillity no faith in the currnet rulers do against a major power? Okay you are so dillusional we did not switch sides a coup happend. Do you know what that is right? Michael only wanted to get Romania out of the war he never wanted war. But lets be stupid like you. If Romania switched sides The Kingdom of Hungary promised Vlad Tepes to help him against the ottomans why did they not help him? Switching sides? "Wow such bitches"

[@_bob9740]

@@doggi3216 If Romania would have honored their alliance with Czechoslovakia then Western allies would have jumped in as well, but no, Romania didn't do shit, because they are only good at backstabbing weakened countries, but half the time they even fail at that. It was retarded for France to even think that cordon santiare was a good idea in the first place, you can't trust Romania.

[@makita3680]

​@@_bob9740 Bobby do you get this butthurt over Finland switching sides in the Lapland war? It seems you don't understand Realpolitik at all, you'd expect everyone to fight to the last grandmother in some autistic fit out of Hitler's playbook. Romania had already capitulated to the Soviets. They didn't "switch sides" until they had already lost and tried (and succeeded) to reclaim their territory. Meanwhile Hungary actually did betray the Axis well before, Horthy tried to make covert alliances with the Allies, Hitler discovered the betrayal and as a consequence Germany occupied Hungary and outed Horthy.

[@makita3680]

@@_bob9740 Ok schizo

[@TheCanaplea]

Great video, thank you for so much detailed explanation in just 11 minutes. Definitely a subscription and and a like. Keep doing this guys, you are doing it great!

[@OM-df9lj]

absolutely perfect explanation

[@Knowledgia]

*P.S : THE VIDEO GOT MONETIZED AFTER 1 DAY. But its start was slower because of this.* Hello Guys! I had to re-upload the video because it was marked as 'demonetized' by KZbin. I spent about 100 hours researching, writing, drawing, animation for this video. And I liked it very much. I am quite satisfied with the final product. But it seems that sometimes, even if I create educational content without "forbidden words" and only with good faith and transparency, my hard work becomes worthless. Looks like this video is demonized again. I don't want to ask for anything from anyone. All I want is to be allowed to do my work without being told by an algorithm that I don't deserve to be monetized. And because of this, the video is not suggested, is not viewed and dies slowly. 100 hours, maybe, for nothing. I am not trying to play the victim here, but if YOU really love what I am doing, and if you can of course, please consider to support my long hours on my patreon : www.patreon.com/Knowledgia Anyway, Thank you so much for your time to watch my content!

[@B.Precision]

Make another Channel showing kittens or something else that will get monetized...Use the Adsense from that to fund your research for this channel.

[@Isichernit]

@@B.Precision or just subscribe to his patreon

[@alinalexandru2466]

Wait, the video is demonetized? But I saw ads during the video, so how is it demonetized?

[@brandonhearne2702]

I got 3 ads on this video. They better be sending some of that your way!

[@primecreator]

This maybe an algorithm but why is it programmed to demonetise history channels as we are now seeing repeatedly. Looks to me like the Deep State doesn't want the true history of the world to emerge.

[@theworstchannel7061]

I thought that Britain and France betrayed only Czechoslovakia. Well ,,there is another"

[@trrsRO]

The Worst Channel you could add Romania, Poland, etc.

[@Tudor90]

Don't forget about Poland :P

[@icoivo5529]

Get in line. Bulgaria was betrayed by them since it's liberation from the Ottomans. 2/3 of the Teritory disperced throught the Balkans.

[@icoivo5529]

Out of Greece, Serbia and the Ottomans, Romania stabbed us in the back the least, I will give you that. They only stole Dobrudja in the Second Balkan war.

[@PurpleKaf]

@@icoivo5529Romania didn't stole it,we won it.But to be fair it was yours and it belongs to Bulgary in terms of history,ethically and culturaly.Atleast romanians are aware of that,but Hungarians are the minority in the Transylvania and they think that teritory is theirs,that my friend is stealing.

[@cordislucian2195]

My grandfather still alive, is a world war 2 survivor, my grandmother as well...

[@furybrown3856]

One major detail that i think you missed is that by Romania switching sides over 1 million lives were spared and the war was shortened by over 6 months. This is no small achievement

[@davidgreen5994]

For those who consider this a betrayal... Romania and Germany fought together but were not friends. Germany signed the RM pact with Russia in '39, trough it Romania was forced to give up Basarebia to Russia. Then in august 1940 trough, another pact at Vienna Romania was forced by Germany and Italy to give Northen Transilvania to Hungary. In September 1940 Germany forced Romania to give South Dobrogea to Bulgary. So in a single year, Romania lost close to 100 000 km of land and 33% of the population (6,8 million peoples), without pulling the trigger once, and Germany was the main actor in that. So Romania and Germany were not comrades or something, Romania simply fought for its survival, and in the yard of two behemoths that decided by themselves to play war. If there is a betrayer here, that's not Romania...

[@militaryorchid7937]

They turned against their former allies without notification, just in one night. it was not a betrayal, according to you. About the territorial losses: they belonged to other countries before 1920. So, if you consider from a Roumanian standpoint: you are right, they were deprived of the territories. From all the other neighbours standpoints: they simply gained back what was lost to Roumania. Fun fact: the 1940 decision on the resigning from Northern Transsylvania in favir of Hungary was iinitiated by Roumania by the Axis.

[@coolgate7794]

@@militaryorchid7937 so it was revenge then.

[@uk..bruiser..4046]

@@militaryorchid7937 they never 'belonged' to 'other' countries mate! Those teritorries were under occupation by foreign empires, all of the population actually being Roumanians and suffering greatly.

[@militaryorchid7937]

@@uk..bruiser..4046 Uhum :) They managed to multiply themselves in that great period (1000 years!!!) of sufferring. Hungary maintained more schools for Roumanians in 1900 than Roumania did. Time to brush up that suffering idea, it would be healthier to all of us. :)

[@uk..bruiser..4046]

@@militaryorchid7937 Well clearly they did not deserve to "multiply" according to you. I know you probably would go for total extermination but luckily even back then people were smarter and more humane than you are. What a theory lol. They "multiplied" because they were Roumanians you mop-head. That is what people that live in they're own country do! Mr. Military Flower. Yes they did suffer greatly.

[@peterstamatiou4530]

Bulgaria joins axis, loses. Gains territory... VISIBLE CONFUSION

[@Stefanism]

Southern Dobruja=Romanian land :))

[@coolthief8375]

Ștefan Alexandru As Romanian as Sofia. Northern Dobruja= Bulgarian land

[@lmaozedong2259]

@@coolthief8375 Both of you, EU LAND LMAO

[@motherrussia5829]

@@Stefanism As a romanian i think that south dobruja is Bulgarian since there are no romanians there anymore. Is just like Hungarians claiming Transylvania

[@motherrussia5829]

@Roblox Troll imi cer scuze dar pentru ca esti analfabet asta inseamna ca tu esti prost si eu nu sunt prost ca am o opinie diferita de a ta si am un nume oarecare.

[@mariadragomir8729]

Foarte bine documentat! Felicitări!

[@AhmadAltibi]

Very nice work! Very informative! I learned alot about Romania 🇷🇴. Lost a big part of their land for the soviet!!

[@gergely675]

I am hungarian. And I really want to live in a world where the neighbors here in Central Europe can be friends. We all suffered much. Let's not fuck the things up this time please.

[@mariapopp6924]

I am romanian. Love to Hungary and all the world!!!We Are All One!!!This is the only true solution,People!!!

[@danielracovitan9779]

agreed; it's the time to unite against today's threats, there's no point in struggling between us

[@daveporter4667]

Do your ADN/DNA test and you will see that your are Balcanic, same blood with Romanians, Serbians, Croatians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Greeks. We are same blood more of less (around 70% common), the rest are stains form all over Europe. We are brothers in blood divided by language, religions, politics and borders. I did the test myself, the blood does not lie like politicians. Wake up people!

[@moldo7799]

yes me too , as I am Romanian. I am tired of this endless fight between our countries and our peoples

[@Valy18]

True. I'm Romanian and some of my best friends are Hungarians. Let's find a way to leave in the past these animosities and make the world better. Preserving our culture and identity should not mean hatred of others. Otherwise we will once again be in a situation were we all lose. Even if you win...

[@zoltanperei4789]

Romania: *swithes sides in World Wars* Italy: My true successor.

[@stefann2461]

Zoltán Perei you spelled “world war” wrong

[@blasehu]

@@ErikhWasHere Said the romanian xDDDDD no offense xD rlly :D

[@ErikhWasHere]

@@blasehu what if I'm romanian ? I just said something true.i deleted it so I won't get messages for it

[@verschilles]

"Roman"ia

[@nataliasilvia4381]

😂😂

[@eugeniaalexandrescu3184]

... very good work Knowledgia team !!! Congratulations !

[@richardshiggins704]

An intricate part of European history very well explained . Bessarabia/Bukhovinia sound so exotic to our ears in the 21st century .

[@nufiprost]

08:21 Din înalt ordin, sunteți arestat! - sweet touch, bro!

[@krentox1637]

Do you even know what did you say?

[@nufiprost]

@@krentox1637 ui' și la ăsta. Boss, te-ai rătăcit?

[@luceafarbland91]

@@nufiprost s-a englezit :))

[@getbeget-_-]

Din ordin masonic prusac-evreu ești arestat !

[@justsayin307]

@@nufiprost nickname-ul tau nu putea fi mai evident :))

[@aaronmarks9366]

The Romanians should have just cast a spell to resurrect Dracula, pretty sure he could have stopped the Soviets.

[@12NuKe21]

We have an expert in eastern border, a one of the few "Athleta Christi" , Champion of Christ title bearer. And that ruler did said on his death bed to call upon him if someone comes to steal our lands and he'll jump even from graveyard to defend his country... I guess we forgot about him

[@angelluisll1033]

How about an army of Frankenstein's and werewolves?

[@arashrezaee1464]

you're right the soviets were atheist so they couldn't use any crosses to scare off dracula

[@philliphoneysett9039]

Dracule or Dracula preyed n drank n lured his victims 1 by 1 for blood n resurrection is a Sen or depend n Soviet or red commo s n impale that's all heads n bloods n take n make at wat stakes n that's overtake n switch that's a light not identity n plight n ears dont pay for it's the logic for n 123 ABC equals all world thee n noun that's alphabetical all word seas n agree that's no knee n ww 2 stopped evil crime fraud attrocities against fellow mankine at world expence n the 3 against never too see again if arose evil again would follow n took freeworld values to stop the overpower n bias that followed n internationl law that's for n all's all not a complete that has no head n feet the floor don't fall all's free open n all n correct that's too mistakes not wiping off country's n identies n race n Hitler blew his head off Mussolini Strang n hung by a hook n no meet look n hirohito emperor of evil the atom bomb wiped off nargasaki n Hiroshima above under complete n master race the freeworld freedom n values put civil law n national n international law in place n the United nations is no station it was world voted for n given too for all safety n security n earth world planet ball n lands n seas n place

[@xMariusrap91x]

Actually, Vlad Tepes (Dracula) was a great ruler. He stood against the Otoman empire and others that tried to take our lands. He was fierced and cruel and nobody dared to stand in his way. Even the Hungarian King was afraid of his ambitions and eventually managed to remove him from his throne. After years 1000, Vlad tepes is one of our best rulers standing next to Mihai the Brave and Stefan the great, who ruled 48 years and was also fierced and nobody dared to stand in his way

[@mqriuz]

So actually Romania didn't want to be on Germany side in the first half, but Hitler wanted to give Transilvanya as a blackmail. Romania didn't want to lose Transilvanya, so they needed to fight not to lose Transilvanya.

[@connorjohn5013]

Which was part of Hungary for almost 2 thousand years. Hungary tried to withdraw from the war many times too without any success. Biggest loser of the world wars was Hungary. We lost 65% of our original territory with acces to sea and mountains rich with minerals. And millions of hungarians left outside the country border. Romania was always the asshole of europe.

[@mqriuz]

@@connorjohn5013 yea sure you allied with Austria because you couldn't do shit without them

[@GabeGabriel29]

@@connorjohn5013 2 thousand years?!?! HAHAHAHAHA. Such a liar.

[@alexpaiu4224]

@@connorjohn5013 learn some history dude...:)) learn about daco-romans, the wallachians (romanians) who were in the Transilvanian territory before your huns got here from Asia. Otherwise, if it weren't for the romanians to be a majority in Transylvania for hundreds of years, why isn't it yours ? :) and yeah...2 thousands years, I can see you know some history :))

[@bogdan-mihaitaoprea6280]

@@connorjohn5013 2000 years. Are you serious, mate? Magyars came to Europe lead by Arpad at the end of 9th century. And Transylvania was no longer part of Hungary after the Mongol invasion (1242), only remained a vassal. It has become a part of Hungary in 1867, when it was forcefully annexed to Hungary by the Austrians.

[@MoNsTeR-jo9zp]

Thanks for the information 'bout my country's recent history, it is so interesting...

[@Vlad_Mihaescu]

I am romanian and I thank you very much for clarifying our historical situation to the world, this means the world to me and I've learned a few things myself that prior to this I did not know.. Also it really shows that you did your research thoroughly when producing this video. I subscribe to you for this fine and entertaining production. God bless!

[@keno502]

un vlad... hmmm... orae-i tepes? oare-i jilavul... probabil.. pur si simplu.. doar un vlad :)))

[@nxibba]

@@keno502 :))

[@mickpalade8331]

The information is very accurate and you're giving very good insight. Thank you for presenting the history of my country to the rest of the world!

[@shzarmai]

Thank you for this video

[@linarson1]

very good work, thank you so much

[@alexmates7057]

Big like, one of the most accurate video I have seen on youtube regarding Romania in ww2 , also here in the west of Romania we are friends with the hungarian people and I enjoy going to the spa in Gyula.

[@imthatOlivia]

Alex Mates, Yes, the Romanians living in Western Romania are different from the others... It could be the effect of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[@alexmates7057]

@@imthatOlivia I think it was the comunist propaganda who brain wash the others to hate everyone...

[@eddiemitza2544]

Two of my great-grandfathers, that I know of, have fought in WW2, have been captured by the soviets and sent to Siberia. One of them escaped, along with a group of soldiers, and they literally 'walked' back to Romania. It took them several months to cross Russia, constantly hiding in the woods, and trying to survive. They had to work for farmers for food and clothes, they also learned how to speak Russian during that time. After a long journey they reached the city of Brasov, which is a large city located in the center of today Romania, where they were recaptured and sent back to Siberia. Imagine that shit, man...I can't even comprehend how they must have felt. However, after a short period, Romania switched sides and they were freed. I don't know what happened to my other captured great-grandfather, but I remember a few stories from his wife, my great-grandmother, from during the time he was gone. She said that it was much better when we were allied with the Germans, she said most of them were quite polite and that they were trading small kegs of beer and chocolate with the peasants for food. But after we switched sides and the Russians came, it was horrifying. They were raping women and stealing even though we were 'allies'. They regularly came to peoples homes to take their food, and especially alcohol, by force. My great-grandmother used to hide my grandmother and her sister in the attic under blankets so the Russians wouldn't find them when they came looting. Communist pieces of shit, they set Romania back 50 years. And we still suffer because of their actions today, being lead by remnants of the communist regime and their off-springs. EDIT: And what we see going on in Ukraine today (March, 2022) is a reenactment of what Russia did during WW2.

[@strictlyunreal]

What you are describing when you are talking about the Russians taking food from the population is called "the requisition of food", and it's a reality of war. Soldiers have to eat too. There are these quotes that I hold dear: 1. War gives the right of the conquerors to impose any conditions they please upon the vanquished. 2. Vae victis! If you don't want to suffer the horrors of war, don't join one.

[@eddiemitza2544]

@@strictlyunreal And since when do civilians have a say in whether to go to war or not?

[@eddiemitza2544]

@@strictlyunreal And that wasn't the point. All I said was that at least the nazis traded for their goods, while the russians just took it by force, sometimes offering the occasional rape as a thank you.

[@eddiemitza2544]

@Nazx 36 Wow...have you even watched the video? Then according to a belligerent individual like yourself, I guess also Italy, Japan and especially Germany or any other country allied to them should've been obliterated? Jesus fucking christ, how are you even allowed to be running around without a straight jacket?

[@strictlyunreal]

@@eddiemitza2544 Did Romania join Germany in Operation Barbarossa? Then Romanians decided to go to war. Civilians have a saying in whether to go to war or not, but they delegate that decision to their leaders. As for the Germans and Russians acting differently, that is anecdotal evidence. Moreover, if the Russians did as you say, don't you think that Romania had it coming, after that failed invasion? After all, the Germans came here as "allies", while the Russians came as conquerors.

[@av4840]

Kudos to Knowledgia team 👏🏻

[@shojiogasavara5942]

Good explanation!

[@Krllytos]

Romania, o tara mareata cu oameni umili care n-am cerut decat sa fim lasati in pace, mereu am avut de pierdut din cauza unor conducatori orgoliosi si nepriceputi.. Ne-am jertfit pentru neam de cand ne stim si am facut compromisuri uriase nu pentru a castiga ceva in plus, ci doar pentru a exista asa cum suntem noi. Multumim eroilor trecuti si prezenti care inca mai lupta pentru o cauza ce multora li se pare pierduta..

[@samicoman9886]

Big like.

[@godofsparta5050]

Legends say you aren't romanian

[@MrJuliano14]

Frumos spus cu lasatul in pace

[@filip1764]

@@godofsparta5050 shut up.

[@godofsparta5050]

@@filip1764 no u

[@theone9288]

Respect for the young king from your brothers from Serbia

[@madduzzi3420]

Neverovatno !

[@TrueREAL]

Thanks

[@ialexutzzz1658]

You are my Brother!

[@_____Z_____]

Illegal russian busterd

[@Illegal_man-gi5gp]

Fuck Serbia you arch duke murdering bastards (this post was made by austro-Hungarian empire gang and is obviously satire)

[@AbelDimitriev]

That's one of the most accurate and well presented episode of Romanian history. Great job 👏

[@Mar.1634]

Great video.

[@philstory2556]

Much of my family fought both sides. Started fighting the Soviet Union, ended the war invading Hungary. One even made it as far as Prague. At no point in the war did anyone consider themselve fighting for the Axis or Allies, they were fighting for Romania first and foremost.

[@UhtredOfBamburgh]

Same with Ukrainians. Westerners and Russians say we "sympathized" with Nazis and say that Ukrainians don't exist they are just some kind of rebellious Russian peasant. Its easy for them to label someone as their enemy when they are the ones who have come to kill...

[@bugyg2000]

@@UhtredOfBamburgh Germany had the stupidest idea when they didn't ally with Ukraine in WW2...they could have had a good ally to fight with them, giving the fact what Russia did in the 30s in Ukraine...

[@UhtredOfBamburgh]

@@bugyg2000 How could Germany ally with people who didn't even have an official state for hundreds of years before because the Russians didn't let them?

[@alechboy3578]

​@@UhtredOfBamburghYour country has no history anyways and where are you now? On the trenches? 😂😂😂

[@DarkSignal59]

There is no honor or loyalty in war, or politics for that matter. Every state does what it considers best for itself and no one else. It's how it's always been.

[@DarkSignal59]

@@heroinne4229 There is no honor in violence, killing and destruction. The concept itself is a poor excuse for them to unleash hell while being "in the right" and legitimate. There is no excuse for war.

[@gregoriokafka]

@@heroinne4229 Sure idiot, Germanic and Romanian armies had a lot of "honor" in the Soviet Union, that's why they killed 25 million soviets, most of them civilians.... fucking douche.

[@stephanem1030]

fer flo same did allies and soviets

[@bogdan-mihaitaoprea6280]

@@gregoriokafka like the soviets had too much honor when they invaded Poland with no war statement, after they signed a non aggression treaty in 1932. Or when they massacred Romanian civilians at Fantana Alba in 1940. And the list goes on.

[@kables_net]

In 1939 was a secret pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Its clauses provided a written guarantee of peace by each party towards the other and a commitment that declared that neither government would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other. In addition to the publicly-announced stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included the Secret Protocol, which defined the borders of Soviet and German spheres of influence. Germany, through this secret pact, helps the Soviets to occupy part of Romania, then goes to Romania and tells them that it will help Romania recover its Bessarabia and Bukovina if Romania offers oil to the German war industry and wages war on the eastern front until the defeat of the USSR. Germany betrayed the USSR and violated the pact. Germany played a perverse game in which it helped to dismantle Romania in order to later play the role of its savior.

[@Normandie17]

Just looks like Romania was just trying to survive in a brutal time. Like the old saying: "You saw which way the wind was blowing...and switched sides" Great video.

[@ciprianion4142]

I’m so proud that my grandad and his dad fought in both wars and they both came back alive❤️

[@AC-db4ek]

they came alive because they were cowards hiding behind the bushes

[@ciprianion4142]

@@AC-db4ek It seems that you have no idea how a war works. Most people are coming back home by the way…🤷‍♂️

[@adr1899g]

​@@AC-db4eklol I'm sorry for your dead brain

[@nekob1]

It seems that Romania and Finland had same experiences. Both were oppressed to give territory, both were fighting the Soviets kinda against their own will afterwards, but only one was occupied

[@Ross1959]

CipiRipi00 ,.

[@derekcollins9739]

@CipiRipi00 not surprised to see another nazi apologist in KZbin comments section. Learn history and do not make fool of yourself.

[@TarebossT]

@@derekcollins9739 What about 1812...? And 28 June 1940...?

[@strictlyunreal]

@@TarebossT Wallachia and Moldova were not independent in 1812. The Ottomans ceded the eastern part of Moldova to the Russian Empire after the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812. For the Russians, that was a bit of Ottoman land that they got.

[@TarebossT]

@@strictlyunreal Nope. Moldova and Wallachia had an agreement signed with the Ottomans which stated that no part of territory will be ceded in case of conflict... By the way the douchebag who signed the ceded of Eastern Moldova to Russians was decapitated by Sultan's order... But too late... The harm was done.

[@0ld_Scratch]

Death or Dishonor

[@cresfirc7349]

Always pick the balkans dominance focus tree

[@Trexmaster12]

Dishonor it was...

[@StromcekDavid]

But that's Czechoslovakian thing to do. 😐

[@jettvpolitykareligiahistor5390]

There is nothing inhonorable in betraying the third Reich considering how disgusting this state was for Slavs and Greeks that used to live there or under their occupation. In fact Germany itself exists mainly due of the betrayalm when Polish king had granted Prussia independence in 1657 to make sure they won't do anything against the Commonwealth. Anyway, honour is something that is not really useful in diplomacy or war and as history showed us, it was used only to blind people and let them die for someone else's interests.

[@StromcekDavid]

@@jettvpolitykareligiahistor5390 Germans even had plans to relocate Czechs to few islands near Russia.

[@lottylty]

Thank you ,for this information

[@Croisette81]

Great video 👍

[@schmoukiz]

You missed an essential event: 23 August 1939. Foreign affairs ministers of Hitler and Stalin signed the alliance agreement (Ribbentrop-Molotov pact). It was just a week before the official start of the war. By it, Europe was split in two. What happened with Poland (occupied by both Germany and USSR respecting the demarcation line) also happened with Romania, but by proxies. Romania was invaded in 1940 from 3 sides, by Russia and by two of Germany's proxy, Hungary and Bulgaria. It was impossible for her to fight all these invaders at once or reject both European socialist empires without the help of Western democracies. A similar act happened at the end of the war, when Churchill and Roosevelt replaced Hitler in a new secret deal with Stalin (at Tehran and Yalta). Again, Romania was thrown under the buss, given to Stalin in exchange for Greece.

[@Himeiros]

Romania was invaded in 1940 from 3 sides by .... Hungary.... >> Not invaded, but regained as the Trianon Treaty was worldwide one of the most unfair pact that any country ever faced in the history of mankind... and still it is... I am saying this with all repect to any other nations.

[@schmoukiz]

Before Trianon, Hungarians were a minority in their own country, constituting just 40%. They could keep the other 60% in check with the joint effort of Vienna, but even Hungarian nationalists wanted their own ethno-state since 1848. Which they got through Trianon. They did lose the provinces where Romanians, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians were majority, but that's hardly an injustice. There are so many Romanians in Transilvania, that if it would be occupied by Hungary today, they would constitute the majority in resulting (expanded) Hungary.

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

Soviet Union offered to send troops to Czechoslovakia to fight the Germans but Poland and Romania refused them military access. It was only after attempts to ally with the west were refused, that the pact was signed.

[@ArmaBulgarian]

Bulgaria did NOT invade. Southern Dobruja is a region with massive importance to the nation, it was a reclamation of rightful land. Infact, saying all of dobruja is ethnically Romanian is just a lie.

[@lacza87]

@ww ww Check it, goatherd!: ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Ethnographic_map_of_hungary_1910_by_teleki_carte_rouge.jpg

[@Raducu2oo5]

It should be noted that the king also had been negotiating the coup with the US, UK and Soviets and was given some assurances which ended up not happening. For ex, he was promised Romania would be named a co-belligerent country at the end of the war, not an occupied one. But once the war ended, Stalin said it is occupied and Roosevelt/Churchill both backed off and let Stalin have his way, per their Yalta conference split of Europe. Based on the promises King Michael was given in 1944, the coup seemed like the best option.

[@NeoConNET7]

King Michael did nothing wrong. He tried to save his country from both the Nazis and the Stalinists. He failed because the Allies, tired of war, were willing to sacrifice Romania to Stalin if it would bring 'peace', and because King Carol, who bowed not to the Romanian people but to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, sacrificed Romanian territorial integrity which led to traitors & collaboraters, working for Nazi Germany & not for Romania, taking control of the government. 🇺🇸 🤝 🇷🇴 #FreedomMatters

[@alexandrub8786]

@@NeoConNET7 you didn't read the part about US and Roosevelt?

[@brownbear2147]

@@NeoConNET7 "King Michael " was a moron. Ion Antonescu was the biggest Romanian patriot in the last 400 years. We, Romanians, know better than any other nation that. So keep in mind that history was always written by the winners. Russia did a enormous amount of damage to our millennial country.

[@pockglockusp7]

@@brownbear2147 'We, Romanians, know better than any other nation that'. You're wrong, I don't think here, in Romania, more the 25% of the country have any idea what happened in the World War 2, and beside that, a lot of people think that what Regele Mihai did was the right decision.

[@brownbear2147]

@@pockglockusp7 not everyone living in Romania is Romanian. That's why I stated "We, Romanians". I am not wrong. I know what I am talking about.

[@AlexandruOlaru]

Very good presentation! Congrats from Romania!

[@RandomLorence]

Still gotta respect the Romanian Army for its validity since they marched all the way to Odessa and beyond, and then to Budapest

[@dust1077]

Ah yes, Carol II *The absolute Madlad*

[@alexandrub8786]

Count Dankula shoul do a video abouthim.

[@mickpalade8331]

Had he died after having Mihai, we'd be somewhere else

[@Nugcon]

bruh

[@grindelz]

Hello... LEVI

[@ComradeHellas]

Carol II enjoyed a luxurious life while his people starved. Fun fact.

[@szabinakalocsa437]

I'm Hungarian, but last year I moved to the Uk. I know a lot of Romanians here and they are all very feiendly. As a Hungarian, Trianon hurts, of course, but this is history, which we can't change and we sould live in peace next to each other. It happened in the past, and it's not those people's fault that are living today in these countries. Don't listen to the propaganda! Don't hate each other, especially because a lot of you guys live in the same fucking country! That's the only way for a better future.

[@eddiemitza2544]

❤

[@bogdan-mihaitaoprea6280]

Respect from a Romanian.

[@Lecco1616]

Great video! A very underestimated part of Europe's history. 👍

[@bladestrike8045]

Well done to Leader Antonescu for doing all he could to restore the nation and being a staunch ally. Well done to Prince Michel for saving all the civilians who would have died had the fight shifted inside the nation.

[@danielb2179]

Mihai saved nothing! Bolseviks killed, raped wonen steal everithing and put romanian soldiers to fight with light guns against havy armed german forces! Shame for fight with russians in 1877against otomans, 1917 and 1944 against germans! ! A horde with no principles!

[@bogdan-mihaitaoprea6280]

@@danielb2179 the Nazis also used their allies as cannon fodder. All the captured equipment was sent back to Germany, instead of being provided to the soldiers.

[@fritz2622]

@@danielb2179 you are based

[@TheMiG96]

When you are a country that was systematically under siege since the Roman Empire becouse of their geopolitical status, that was attacked by the Ottoman Empire for almost 500 years ( wich was unsuccessful and stopped them to enter central Europe) when the USSR constantly taking out territories for their own benefit and getting involved in the election of another sovereign state, and the Austria-Hungary empire was betraying almost every leader that Romania had. Where was the west then, why didn't they helped Romania I wonder. They were to preoccupied to rage war on other states from other continents and enslave their people I guess.(Even under the Ceausescu regime they supported Czechoslovakia when they had been under threat by the Russians, even tho they had been communist they did not stand and fought for what was right not letting the USSR influence spread further) I wonder what country survived for more then 2000 years being attacked by 4+ empires? And still people don't give them the respect they deserve, that's a shame. Respect 🇷🇴

[@catalinangheloiu5738]

Respect!!! 🤟🤟🤟

[@coolgate7794]

Only Japan can satisfy with such an achievement.

[@quovadis9188]

I am Romanian and thank you!!!

[@adelamitroi9719]

So true.

[@Noname-tv9zd]

I am not Romanian but I respect Romanian people a lot because of their ancestors like they were great. Dacii were able to defend the country from the ROMAN EMPIRE the greatest Empire in the entire world at that time. Respect man respect

[@christianvlad9461]

As a romanian i must say that our ability to switch sides so easily has been both a blessing and a curse in our entire history. But can anyone really blame us. We have always been stuck between bigger powers since the middle ages ( the kingdom of Hungary, Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire, Tatars, Russian Empire, Habsburg Empire).

[@numedeutilizator6198]

I understood more from this video than I ever understood from all my history teachers! This is how history should be taught

[@mehmetalipasa]

Very informative :-)

[@Jay-qb9gi]

*[Comment retracted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation]*

[@2romanian4you20]

nah it`s the 34763246776672347632476768 time we switched sides in the napolean wars in ww1 in ww2 in the cold war and so on

[@andreipop5805]

@@2romanian4you20 so... you mean by out-throwing an opresive dictactoriship like half of Europe did... we switched sides?

[@leonardodavid2842]

Did Italy not do the exact same thing? When Mussolini was publicly executed and the country split and entered a civil war?

[@adrianoprea3563]

@The Nova renaissance Romania had a secret alliance with the central powers before ww1. The reason why it was secret is because there were many Romanians in Transylvania which was occupied by AH and if they made the alliance public it would've made Transylvanians think they forgot about them. In 1914 when ww1 started, the king at the time Carol I wanted to join Germany's side however the rest of the politicians didn't approve and Romania stayed neutral. By 1916 the situation changed, Carol Ist was now dead and replaced by Ferdinand who chose to enter the war on the Entente's side and liberate Transylvania despite Ferdinand being a German himself

[@alexandrub8786]

@@adrianoprea3563 it was rather a defensive pact like NATO ,the difference is that in an alliance you need to help our allies in war and in a defensive pact only if they are the attacked one not the attackers. Italy defended their neutrality position on that and the italian decision influenced the romanian decision.

[@Anlushac11]

Hungary tried to switch sides but was caught in the act. The son of the acting regent Admiral Horthy thought he was meeting Allied representatives to discuss Hungary leaving the war. It was a ruse and instead Horthy's son was captured by Otto Skorzeny's special troops. Hitler asked Admiral Horthy to meet him in Germany to discuss Hungary's situation. While away German troops seized power in Hungary. When Horthy returned he was greeted by German troops, driven to the palace, and was instructed on what he was supposed to do to appease Germany. In the end Germany seized complete control anyways.

[@pl0tka123]

A huge % of hungarian Army HQ Core supported the SS and Hitler + Horthy didnt go to the 1st Hungarian Army which was stationed at the front lines and didnt try to switch sides from there. There were some german armored and elite SS panzergrenadier divisons stationed near the Capital. + He didnt have the means to fend them off. = disaster.

[@Sudungarn]

Hungarian soldiers would have rejected to shoot at (if the switch succeeded) at their former allies. Only place if i am right, when Hungarians shot at Axis was when Germans and Croatians marched from Sirmium into Hungarian Bácska region, Hungarian border guards (soldiers) shot at the Axis troops because they had no previous orders about letting those Axis troops inside, but in other places Hungarians waited for the Germans with flowers.

[@fahoodie1852]

Anlushac11 Magyar kiralyszag attempted to withdraw itself. The Romanian king overthrew the government and made himself the man in charge, which is why Romania “changed sides”

[@Anlushac11]

@Literally The Coolest Who the fuck cares or asked for your bitch ass opinion.

[@Niki-ml8fn]

A very good video ,i m romanian at this video was awesome , you re very good ,keep it up

[@mirceadraga7421]

O prezentare foarte corectă și bine realizată, mulțumesc! Poate vor înțelege mulți oameni că au fost momente dramatice pentru România, momente în care s-a aflat între ciocan și nicovală și că e foarte greu să supraviețuiești între imperii. Dar suntem aici și vom fi! :)

[@floriastjames7637]

Doamne ajuta!

[@brightbaelfire7232]

"former comunists" still reign to this day... I do love the comments... it's like today politics

[@SillyUwUBilly]

Same in Poland.

[@k0mentator507]

@@SillyUwUBilly not really

[@SillyUwUBilly]

@@k0mentator507 Really.

[@CosminComanGeorgel]

I liked that subtle romanian easter egg at 8:24 , nice job on the video +Knowledgia

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@tudvalstone]

6:01 That map looks totally ridiculous, like Hungary shoving its index finger down Romania's throat - unnatural, good thing they changed that.

[@TheTudor111]

*When you show her a map of Greater Romania* Her:-It's so big!

[@mr.marius5094]

When i see the map my dick gets hard ans my hart gets crazy 😂😋

[@pies.d.9ss623]

Lmaooo

[@c.toobitz7566]

They like to steal these Romanians, it's part of their culture 😂

[@pies.d.9ss623]

@@c.toobitz7566 ur a fuckin loser. Probably slavic or smth

[@c.toobitz7566]

@@pies.d.9ss623 Ukrainian. It was just a bad joke, no need to get so emotional.

[@danielcires9963]

My grandpa was a prisoner of war in Siberia for 5 years...they got him at Stalingrad...

[@zer0lis]

Same as me. Our comments would not exist otherwise:)

[@ioanarusu870]

Wow, that story must be amazing

[@zer0lis]

@@ioanarusu870 well, he worked in a gulag as a slave for about 5 years, losing one lung in the process. But one Russian doctor saved him. At home, nobody was expecting for him to return, even a funeral was done. When he was released at the Prut River, he had to walk bare foot until home(no GPS, no way to find out where u are) and he ate bark tree and insects to survive the trip. Those were the times.. I still have his military ration bowl from which he ate during the war. . He never spoke about the war with me

[@BlackFiresubscribeNOW]

"They got him at stalingrad" - you mean he did it or that he passed away, cuz if he passed away, God bless his soul

[@notyourdaddude1957]

You mean they killed him or they saved him?

[@moldova7857]

1:08 1812 was a horrible year for Basarabia, it was annexed by russia and get denationalized and russified... :( The only good memories I have is when Stephen The Great ruled...glorious days...

[@andreiclawhammer]

Germany betrayed Romania at least four times before the so called Romanian switching of the sides. Romanians don't owe anything to anybody, get this through your thick skulls. We have and will continue to pursue our own interests just like everybody else.

[@news_internationale2035]

How?

[@calebcorrea7556]

In the end of the war Romania did what was right for their country and for the world and we must thank them for that

[@UlpianHeritor]

2 of my great grandfathers fought on the eastern front for Romania. The one in Stalingrad died.

[@TobascoCatMC]

Ulpian Heritor then how were you born?? :0

[@FabiusPolis]

@@TobascoCatMC ummm...his great grandfather has left a family behind and childs were already born? What a stupid question.

[@anirban5262]

😞

[@UlpianHeritor]

@@TobascoCatMC I was forged by the gods.

[@mihaidelegeanu600]

Awesome video. I found it very interesting. You taught me something very important about my roots. Thank you 😎💪

[@CorneliuZeleaCodreanu9]

Thia video is actually incredibly accurate. And i didn t expect so, as the situation was pretty complicated. But really, i must say everything is accurate

[@ionsmith4477]

This a great piece, thank you, it's a lot better than what any romanain ever did, it's simple and clean, there are some glitches in the facts, but overall really nice. Thank you and congrats for the efort and care you put in these pieces so they cand be as close as posibly to reality. I am romanian, and I must say (for comentary sakes) that , I don't kow how, but Romania is one of the most beautiful places in the world, it is most hated and under-apreciatet by it's own people (sadly), and this is so because they judge it by it's rulers and by they'r conationals.

[@494949david]

Thank you!!!! My god how perfect you explained the situation. Awesome!!!!

[@daveporter4667]

Great analysis and summary of those difficult years.

[@Unholyhybridgaming2022]

greetings from new jersey to the glorious romanian people.

[@ivantodorov9996]

It's just that simple. When it comes to choosing a side, you don't choose those who offer the most. You choose those who will win in the end.

[@PatrikVolkov1994]

Basically Romanian isnt a loyal ally and shouldn't be trusted

[@orins2052]

@@PatrikVolkov1994 haha, and you can be trusted... robbers!

[@orins2052]

Besides, Germany hadn't offered anything to us, on the contrary - they had robbed a part of our land and given it to Hungary, their poodle.

[@PatrikVolkov1994]

@@orins2052 robbers? Look at the mirror clown you're the robber you robbed Transylvania from Hungary and Banat from Serbia

[@orins2052]

@@PatrikVolkov1994 Robber, go to school and learn history: - Russia/USSR stole from Romania half of Moldova - Transylvania is old Romanian land, as mentioned even in the old Hungarian (and even Russian) documents - Banat was in the past/is in the present days a territory shared between Serbia and Romania, who were/are natives and friends in that area.

[@catadinculescu2440]

Great perspective. Thank you !

[@8Delian8]

At least this is an accurate video. Didn't portray Antonescu as some kind of monster either. It's history like it actually was, grey and complicated. They were all men after all.

[@dydy1063]

I love this channel

[@dmp1248]

Excelent video