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I will give you the details in one or two days, when i have more time. The operations were of course defensive (mainly escorting convoys) because of the huge superiority of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. I will give you the numbers in my next post. The Germans had some MTBs and U-boats in the Black Sea...

In the Constanta action, other Soviet ships were also damaged by mines (including the cruiser). The Soviets had another squadron (including a battleship) waiting at some distance to attack if the first attack was succesful. For the rest of the war, Romanian destroyers were in action only with Soviet...

Interesting info Sid. Germans paid for the oil they got from Romania. It was not a gift. About the "trading" of Romania: Churchill himself proposed Stalin that the Soviets should have 90% influence in Romania in exchange for 90% Allied influence in Greece. This is an obvious trade. Also, t...

In the Black Sea they had an overwhelming superiority over the Axis fleet. Axis largest ships in the Black Sea were the 4 Romanian destroyers.

Romanians are not "pockets" in Transilvania, they are the majority. But there are pockets of Hungarians, especially in the middle of Romania. Yes, Transilvania is the reason for this hostility (and still is, to some people). Not only Romanians and Hungarians needed to be separated on the f...

Jeff, Romania allied with Germany after the loss of Transilvania. Why? Because it was surrounded by enemies, the traditional allies (France and Britain) were defeated and the attack on Russia was a chance to reclaim other lost provinces (Bassarabia and Northern Bucovina). Marshall Antonescu also tho...

Sid, Almost half of Craiova was destroyed (BTW, i don't live there). The railway was at the edge of the town and quite small. The bombardment also aimed to burn the city or was done wrong. My grandmother was machinegunned from an Allied plane while she was with some cows on a field 20 km. from Craio...

Annelie, i told you that nobody is interested in this topic.

I wiil only post a small brief about the reasons why we allied with Germany (because i need to go to bed...). At the beginning of the war (1939) Romania was surrounded by enemies. Hungary, SU and Bulgaria all had territorial claims over Romanian land. Romania stayed neutral but the people and the ki...

Annelie, i hope there are more people like you who want to know more about Romania and other minor Axis powers in the East.
I started a new thread.
About Romania in WW2 there is a very good site and forum:
http://www.worldwar2.ro

Westerners usually ignore warcrimes made by the Allies. Romania's war was with the Russians, although a formal state of war existed between our country and UK/USA. Even Marshall Antonescu said : "I'm allied with Germany against the SU, neutral between Germany and UK and i hope that the American...

To 101st doc: Yes, the ones who decided to bomb Coventry, London or other non-military targets should be convicted and i think they actually were. Stalingrad and Leningrad were battlefields, you shouldn't compare them to Dresden. Westerners usually ignore warcrimes made by the Allies. Romania's war ...

The people responsable for Dresda were monsters. All those involved, not only Churchill or Harris should have been trialed for their crime. The Allied airforce made many other raids that were military useless and killed a lot of people. The town where i was born (Craiova in Romania) was almost compl...

Denying obvious facts won't do you or your cause any good. Of course my source is not Beevor, don't forget where i live.
I won't answer to you anymore because it's useless. People on this forum know the truth anyway.
Stalin would be proud of you and your statements.

Well, if it isn't a little Russian-bashing convention.. Dragos, don't really know what you mean about engineers.. but i'm guessing you aren't an expert on the Red Army. So the 'R' in RKKA actually means "Russian"? Perhaps if you are so smart, you would know that the USSR consisted of more...