REMEMBRANCE IN TIME - Index of

THE POST WAR ROMANIAN MILITARIES
FROM EXILE AND CONDEMNATION
OF COMMUNISM
Mihaela TOADER 1
At the end of World War a small number of Romanian troops are stationed in Western
European countries, which meet various diplomatic missions are sent to study in
Germany or those taken prisoners on the occasion of military operations on the Western
Front plus more later the army improperly removed on political grounds, chose exile.
Many of them took a stand on condemning communism.
As shown in the documents covered the majority of Romanian troops left the country in
the period 1941-1950 2 . Evolution military representatives in exile organization has
developed in relation to or in relation to international events and because of Soviet
actions in the country.
On the other hand, creates a Cold War because of the image of a European continent
divided between Western Europe affected by the Americanization and Eastern Europe
Sovietized. Geographically and symbolically, „Western debate related to the American
presence in Europe almost always identified with the Old Continent to the west. Usually,
the other part of Europe is mentioned marginally, or is simply ignored. When it is taken
into question, the American presence in Eastern Europe is rarely presented as an
autonomus subject, typically used in contexts in which American cultural debate
diplomacy efficiency during the Cold War. In other words, what kind of American
presence can talk in a region occupied by the Red Army and fallen under the influence of
the Soviet Union? Political divisions, ideological, economic and cultural ties between
East and West were large and had a significant impact on developments on the
Continent” 3 .
1
Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile,
Bucureşti, Romania.
2
Is there two periods in which Romanian troops left the country: 1. between 1941-1945, the
coming of Legionnaires fall persecuted during the regime of Ion Antonescu regime established
officers and Division "General Platon Chirnoaga" the military studying in Germany, 2. 1946-
1950, especially after the abdication of King Michael, to include soldiers in the army unhappy
situation following the massive purges of political criteria and carrying out the action of
"democratization" of the military. Some of them reached the West via Hungary and Austria,
some with Yugoslavia, particularly pilots and others by Turkey's; ACNSAS, fund SIE, file no.
184, Ion Calafeteanu, Romanian exile. Hope erosion. Documents (1951-1975), Encyclopedic
Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003, Ion Calafeteanu, Politics and Exile 1946-1950 The history of
the Romanian exile, Encyclopedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000.
3
Bogdan Barbu, Americans are coming! U.S. Presence in Romania symbolic Cold War,
Humanitas, Bucharest, 2006, pp. 17-19.