Why did Romania join the axis? (Short Animated Documentary)
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Why did Romania join the Axis Powers during World War 2. Self-preservation, mostly.
Sources:
Germany and the Establishment of the Romanian National Legionary State, September 1940 by Rebecca Haynes.
National Projects, Regional Identities, Everyday Compromises: Szeklerland in Greater Romania (1919-1940) by Stefano Bottoni.
The Dysfunctional Coalition: The Axis Powers and the Eastern Front in World War II by R.L. DiNardo.
Territorial Dimensions of Hungarian Ethnic Identity by George W. White.
Next time, choose Balkan dominance focus tree
Hoi4
Works everytime, also fortify the shit out of bassarabia and bucovina
Peter Santos Luckly in latest patch. We can make AI pink that focus tree.
I hate that increasing democracy after we remove King Carol's Hendoism effect. That bullshit from Paradox
@@zerosuitsamus2340 anyway i tend to remove carol and get michael instead, it's beautifull to crush the soviets with him and as a romanian it gives me a bit of revenge
You can go His Majesty Personal bla bla and then Militarise the Sentinels. After that instead of banning all the parties you can go for King Michael's Coup and you have no penalties :D But you will lose Camarilla trait of Carol because he will be out.
Germany: I'm fighting for Lebensraum
Italy: I'm fighting to restore the glory of Rome
Romania: I'm fighting for my fucking life
Russia : you will all be mine .
@@oldworldblu3s305 USA: No spaghetti for you stalin!
correction, Romania: I'm fighting, not to end up, like Poland.
@@tremedar the USA didn't help with shit, they sold us to stalins
This is the history of Romania in a nutshell from the beginning of time.
Forget Croatia. Romania was the original European boomerang.
rofl
Two World Wars and Two Betrayals.
Teona Turcu is this a halo reference?
Prussia was also one too.
Forget Romania. West francia between the deaths of Pepin and Carloman was the original European boomerang
On December 29 the Black Sea demanded some lands from Romania.
We have beach errosion so
....😒
On December the 30th the Danube demanded all of Romania's oil fields
Romania refused and on the 1st of january the people's republic of the Black sea declared war
The Black Sea is our best ally, because it never tried to take territory from us.
Steve D lmfao
Fun fact: King Michael lived to be the oldest of surviving of WWII "leaders". He died just 18 months ago. [should've said 2nd oldest as a poster informed me of Bulgaria's surving tsar.]
WHat the hell? That is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
@@martonk Yes...last of the European leaders anyway. Seems like one of the monarchs in the Middle East or Africa from that era may also still be clinging to life. Can't recall who that was. I read about King Michael in some random article about five years ago. Very interesting.
Tbh,when he was declared "king" he was better at reparing cars then being king.
@@nikolaytsankov9066 Oh thank you for the correction. That is quite impressive.
@@mftepera fun fact ,by changing sides he shortened the war with 6 months
The Alternative title for this could have been: "How to divide a oily Romanian cake"
*an
an
@@ferkstkojtt I apologize I always get "a" and "an" wrong
It's not an because cake is the noun/subject in what he is describing. The use of a is to describe cake, not to describe oily; oily is simply an adjective so him using a is correct
@@hanspetrich6520 It really simple, if the word's sound starts with a vowel its an, otherwise its a
Interesting that Romania ended up sending more troops along with Germany for operation Barbarossa than any other axis ally combined. Romania and Hungary did way more for the axis than Mussolini did.
Robert Leslie italy rly wasn’t ready for the war. It had a shit army, shit supply, shit leadership... SHIT EVERYTHING!
Robert Leslie Romania did nothing for the Axis and stabbed it in the back.
Yes, Italy really didn't do much in the way of winning the war for the Axis; however, Mussolini and Fascism was incredibly important in the history of Fascist ideology, and Mussolini was actually a wonderful statesman for Italy, outside of his military failures.
@@zoltancsikos5604 Well it was clear that axis would lose and romania would just get even more buttfucked cause of the soviet union, i remember my grand-grandfather telling me that the soviets were really big assholes to the romanians back then.
@@semafor6736 they still are ☹️
I guess Hitler could have used the vampires against the Soviets
It's called Hellsing, look it up!
They did, see What we do in the Shadows
Draculas. Vampires are actually from Serbia not Romania
To be fair, Transylvania had quite the military industry. Over 1000 warplanes, 800 artillery pieces, 16000 machine guns and 1000 mortars were produced by Dracula's land until the end of the war. Parts for tanks, artillery pieces (barrel liners or whole barrels) and even warships were produced in Transy. Transy also made over half of Romania's artillery shells.
@@alexandrub8786 You again? Well i'll have to ask again. Is your name serious or is a joke?
I love how the map of Romania hanging on the wall in the background has scribble marks on it every time they lose territory
Yea! I noticed that too
When Hitler wanted to give Ion Antonescu serbian part of Banat (Banat is region split between Serbia and Romania) Ion Antonescu said "I would rather cut my veins than occupy one centimeter of Serbia".
Сербо Фаца, 🇹🇩❤️❤️❤️ 🇷🇸 always and forever! 🥰
@Mysterious Stranger well, you did occupy predominantly Ukrainian parts of Bukovyna and Bessarabia, which wanted to join Ukrainian state. So you were also warmongerers.
@Mysterious Stranger And that is exactly why your nation's government demanded a large portion of hungarian majority land.
Don't take this personally, no one likes getting angry.
Everyone knows that? I look on any language map and I see a spit of hungarian inside romania, I check google earth and I see hungarian text. What are your sources?
Yes that was rather silly, but you didn't answer my question.
1:15 It's not that the romanians didn't want to fight the hungarians, rather they feared german intervention if they did start a war with Hungary.
I was thinking about the same
La fel ma gandeam si eu,ca doar nu, se sperie romanii de ungurii de cacao(no ofense against hungarians).
Alin Alexandru all Im gonna say is that Codreanu wouldn’t have let that happen. Sadly he didn’t live to see his party succeed
Eugen Grigore Forever Horthy was not a nazi at all what the fuck
@Eugen Grigore Forever that's not right, He didn't liked fascism just like Communism, But the Other Politicians majorly supported to be on Germany's side.
I love how you manage to present complex topics in such a quick and entertaining and yet clear and surprisingly not-so-much simplified way. Plus you actually remember about the widely understood Eastern Europe, which is often treated like some mysterious land on the Moon.
You mean misunderstood?
The moon is better known than eastern Europe.
Too quick. Hard to follow at his pace.
@@januarysson5633 Set your speed to 0,75 and there you go :)
Stephen Jenkins - Europes Eastern half of countries past Germany & above Greece (besides Russia) are far less important, popular, & famous to the world compared to Western Europe like with the UK and France. They experienced a delayed in developed progress as compared to Western Europe (even to the half’s of Germany with the West being more prosperous) as well due to putting up with Communist policies. Also due to much more countries to try to keep track of since it’s more fragmented like the Eastern half of the United States to the larger Western states. The populous mainly knows of Poland for being invaded in WW2 & Ukraine for the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.
Romania
Latvia
Finland
Czech Republic
Belarus
Croatia
Serbia
Estonia
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Slovakia
Lithuania
Albania
Macedonia
Montenegro
Ukraine
Poland
Hungary
Kosovo
Moldova
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Romania's oil:*exists*
Moustache Man:H I P I T Y H O P I T Y Y O U R N O W M Y P R O P E T Y
@Leo Jansen Well he meant both of them
I hope this is a reference to Kenshi lol
RANDOM user They stole everything from everyone. They own nothing, LoL...
Wrong "you're", smallbrain!
Romania in 1930s:
Current objective: Survive
*Mission: Impossible theme song starts playing*
don't mean to burst your bubble but it's, Objective: Survive
1940 *
Frist Name Last Name and yet we are still here
That was pretty much every european country’s goal in WW2 except the big players on both sides. And it was their goal to some degree too.
ww2 starts
Romania: Current objective survive
Baron von Android here have 4 objectives:
1 if u from romania it was real so
2 get better at english
3 dont hate
4 have better english
*LoneWolf* also you shouldnt be a dick , but if someone is a dick you have the permission to hate but he is probably 9 y/o so bear with me
@@randomcat9314 i mean. I am romanian and we should be proud cos our ppl survived . And the joke was not even offensive
Mission failed! We'll get'em next time!
@@randomcat9314 *MR,wanna be "smart",you should lower down your ego' and worry about your own "Psychrolutes marcidus"poor English-skills!!!😂🤦♂️
Should have mentioned how Romania contributed the second largest number of troops of any Axis power to Operation Barbarossa. They played a notable role on the Eastern Front which is almost always overlooked.
I think the Italy was the 2nd.
Romania was 3rd.
@@LevisH21 No, Romania contributed 13 divisions, while Italy contributed 10.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Romania also contributed a lot of oil, which both Italy and Germany were critically short of
No...No, they didn't
(Mao planned the invasion of Taiwan, but the numbers weren't everything)
@@paranoidandroid6095 I'm confused as to what this comment is meant to be saying. Who was talking about Mao and Taiwan?
Romania: We ran out of Vampires
Everyone else: (Looks in Romania's direction)
This video is two years old and I cant believe I don’t see a comment about this line. “Britain was a continent away and to be FRANK look at how Poland had faired.” The genius and swift explanation of all three allies at that time in a single line is amazing to me. I don’t know why but it is.
Like a Ginsu knife, one swift motion and you have two clean cut pieces!
Soviet Union: -Takes Bessarabia-
Hungary: -Takes Half of Transylvania-
Germany: This will be the last time
Romania: Are you sure about that?
Germany: Well yes, but actually no
Bulgaria: Takes Southern Dobruja.
No transylvania! This is Erdély!
@@godivezer it's northern Transylvania
This is what happens when you take someone's land. They'll come back for it.
@@rufusgt4774 That's not up for you to decide I was born here, therefore it is my God given right to live on my homeland, that is Transylvania. 😌
@@rufusgt4774 Wait so if I'm a Romanian according to you, why do I not deserve to live in Romania?
And no, I am not Romanian. I am a Hungarian living in Romania. I don't celebrate December 1, I celebrate March 15, August 20 and October 23. 😁
Hungary: "I want it all!"
Romania: "No"
Hungary: "Dad!"
Germany: "Romania, don't be mean to your brother, give him some"
Romania: "But he want's it all"
Germany: "He can have some"
Romania: "Fine, but let me keep my bit"
Germany: "Good, now you two play nice while I go fight the neighbours"
@An unimpressed Rooster metoo
@Mistjor It's actually funny in comparison to the other stale posters who do the
bla bla:
Bla bla:
format which is unfunny
U.S.S.R.: “Give me that back.”
Romania: “Dude, no.”
U.S.S.R.: “Give it, or I'll beat the crap out of you.”
Germany: “Just give it to him.”
Romanian: “Fine, Jerks.”
Germany: *whispering* “Don't worry, I'll it back after I'm done with him, plus more, okay?”
Romania: “Okay, but please promise to let no one else take my territory.”
Germany: “I promise.”
*5 minutes later*
Bulgaria: “Heeeyyyyy...”
Very historically unacurate and unfunny
@@donbarzinitut Original but still not funny. And look who it is below
Bukovina wasn't in the secret agrement, yet Stalin made later claims to it.
Yeah
It's spelled with a c not a k.
@@vladimirmureseanu1477 Are 2 forme, majoritatea folosesc cu litera "k" pentru ca "k" este "c" la ei intr-un fel daca sti ce spun. Caci "c" la ei este in fel de "s". Stii cand pronunti litera "c" in engleza tu spui "si". E foarte ciudat modul de vorbire la englezi dar cam de asta ei zic cu "k" si nu cu "c"
Like Poland, Romania lost territories because of Hitler and Stalin agreement.
Yep ...those bastards
Are they bastards because they support the geopolitical interests of their states?
@@florinssj2289 You be happy with what you already have stolen. Stay silent and enjoy the fact no one took it back from you.
@@Mentol_ yes. They are for us, maybe not for you, but for us definitely
@@pasdpasse439 Moldova was part of the USSR.
2:36
“And as for Stalin, well, let’s just say that was a pretty firm no.”
*Picture of Stalin looking angry*
Romania:exists
Everyone: I'M ABOUT TO ENDS THIS MAN'S CAREER
I can't wait for this dumbass meme to die.
Metric Imperialist never
@@cdur5091 Cool story bro.
@@MetricImperialist no I just roasted u
@@cdur5091 If you have to tell the other person that they got roasted, you have clearly failed. Try harder kid.
Correction! Bessarabia wasn't napped, a referendum was held to decide if it joins Romania and they decided, yes.
1:59 For anyone confused, the Germans didn't want Ion Antonescu to force the abdication of King Carol II, because they were unsure about his son, King Micheal I.
And these suspicions were, eventually, shown to be well founded.....
And they were right not to trust that little shit who got scammed by the commies that if he stabs Antonescu in the back he will get to keep his throne. Stalin even gave him the highest decoration for this act of betrayal.
WEMBLEYNE But uhmmm, Micheal appointed two non-communist Prime Ministers before being forced to appoint Groza, the Soviet Union using Northern Transylvania as a bargaining chip
Those old Romanian borders look pretty nice
They sure do
Yup...
They were so perfect
Crick1952 Yeah, they looking THICC.
Yeah
The king should've choose the balkans dominance focus.
If only we would've trained cavalry...
"Just gonna spam these divisions"
@Mysterious Stranger Dont forget the state budget used on parties.
This is why you always check your agressive expansion.
Couldn't complete their focus tree on time I guess and went for the continuous focuses instead
0:59 And now its, Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
Winter for Poland and France
We’re marching to a FASTer pace...
Hitler actually offered parts of the Banat region in serbia to Romania i believe but it declined and for that i thank them.
Also no one should really blame the Romanians for joining the axis, their people and what's left of their borders were safe and they could help save the romanian jews a lot better. To see what would have happened if they defied the axis just look at poor Serbia. It got invaded, most of it's territory was taken, the serbs outside of Serbia were constantly persecuted and killed and even the ones in serbia were killed regularly by the nazis as punishment for partisan rebelions. On top of that 90% of yugoslav jews were killed due to there being no one to protect them.
Frați pentru întotdeauna! iubire spre voi din Romania. Brothers forever
That's actually only partly true. Antonescu initially refused but then accepted considering the West Banat could have gone to the Hunagarians.
However he was too late and Yugoslavia had already been partitioned.
The Romanian government did not help the Romanian jews lol. they rounded them up and executed them the same as the germans did to jews. The Romanian government killed 400,000 jews from within it's border.
@@bluesteel8376 add also the Roma Gypsies
Under German occupation, there were countries who were better and worse about protecting Jews. On the good side there were the Danes (King wore a yellow star of David in solidarity, more or less the entire country conspired to spirit away their Jews to Sweden) and Bulgaria (which basically just acted dumb and refused to cooperate). On the bad side - Romania. The antisemitic frenzy of Romania appalled even the SS, who hated Jews but wanted it done efficiently and systematically.
So Romania acted, unfortunately, among the worst of Europe in terms of destroying their Jews. Source: Hannah Arendt, Eichman in Jerusalem. You can also read the relevant wikipedia page.
Didn't Romania contribute the second biggest contingent of Axis troops on the Eastern Front after the Germans themselves?
Yes they did (1 million men I think)
Aaron Marks yes and they were also the only Axis power to gain territory for the Russian invasion, as a makeup for the vienna conference losses. The Transnistria Governate was akin to the german general Government that ruled ex poland as a slave colony for all of Europe, well transnistia was the same for Romania but on a smaller scale. Odessa was included in the Romanian territory. However since the Romanians were nice and joined the Soviets (who were invading) following a military coup, Romania was given Transylvania back as Hungary (under a german puppet regime following a coup against Horthy) fully resisted the Soviet invasion, however transnistria (and north bukovina/Bessarabia was given back to the Soviet Union
Even after D-Day the Romanian army was the Fourth largest in Europe.
@@TheLocalLt
I think Finland also temporarily gained some extra real estate.
Alan Pennie it did but Finland wasn’t an axis power, although it was allied to them. Finland from 1941-44 had the same status as the Soviet Union did from 1939-41: ie a co-belligerent and ally of the axis, but not a member
Romania: hey guys!
Everyone: nice land bucko
DAIKOИ shit
DAIKOИ Was never theirs to begin with.
@Fabian well you didn't have a land before the 1800'. Hungary did before the turkish came along. But anyways this is history now. And I think a cooperation would be the best between the two countries
@@zoltancsikos5604 You invaded Transylvania in the 1200s,bitches. STFU.
Some people would argue that Romania was actually Nazi Germany's best ally in the European Theater instead of Italy.
Not really. It was Hungary. And Hungary fought consistantly at least
@Commander Cody Late war, when the Soviets were at their border. Operation Panzerfaust, circa 1944 autumn
Croats fought even after Germany surrendered.
@MrNorthernSol Was allied with the Axis but not officially from what i know.
As is was...
Can you do the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth video like in the poll?
No but he can do the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
@@ramunc2261 Lol my bad didn't even notice
Zach Arbogast 1 cup Prussia, 1 cup Austria, and 1 cup Russia, mix thoroughly, and the Commonwealth will be over
@Zach Arbogast The partitions? Prussia held Warsaw when Napoleon invaded.
Polish-lithuanian commonwealth: exists
Europe: ITS FREE REAL ESTATE
Bessarabia voted for unification with Romania in 1918, get your facts straight. Bessarabia was the eastern part of the historical principality of Moldavia and always had Romanian majority. The only reason it didn't unite with Wallachia in 1859, like the rest of Moldavia did (except Bucovina, which was under the boot of the Austrian Empire) is that Bessarabia had been annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812.
The Russians also opposed Bessarabia uniting with Romania after the Romanian war of independence (1877-1878), but in 1918 they were too busy managing their new Bolshevik state.
Romania: Hello guys :)
Everyone: HOHOHOHOH, hello Romania, so, give me yours lands :)
Romania: Ah shit, here we go again
Oh Romania, give us back the land what you stole before, some 20 years ago.
@@xxthatpookieeditsxx stole?
@@xxthatpookieeditsxx in war there is no such thing as "stealing" plus we originated in those lands bruh
@@fabiandanesti1497 you originated from where?
@@xxthatpookieeditsxx you originated from Asia, so what s your point?
If we joined the allies we would have ended like poland
If even u didn't Soviet Union will Annex u anyway in the Post War.
@@gregorjerman973 Yea i tried it on hoi4 (not the most accurate game but still) and i got absolutely destroyed bu soviets and germans
oof
Well said....
2:19
Heh, nice touch there, writing the english question of "Why ?" in romanian.
To expand more, both Hungary and Romania had numerous border incidents in the summer of 1940, were mobilizing and after talks broke down on august 24th the Hungarian army planned to begin attack on the 28th. And while Hungary did not actually want all historical territories back but nevertheless wanted a very big chunk of it, everything north of river Mures which is still more then what they actually gained. Romania on the other hand aimed at only giving back some villages along the border and to solve the rest with population transfer, which was likewise unacceptable to Hungary. So yeah Hitler stepped in the last second and were very much threatening Romania to yield, which is why Hungary was so bold in first place as the Hungarian army itself really had no hopes of victory due to military restrictions being only lifted in 1938, something the high command was absolutely aware of.
Also fun fact, notice that strange bump in southern new border? You'd think theres a mountain range or river there but nope, it has no geographical correspondence. Thats the Turda region which had rich gas fields, whos owner hurridly flew to Germany and convinced Göring to keep those lands in Romania.
Well, Romania has a majority popultation throuout the region, the Hungarians held it for like 500 yrs, even tho they were a minority. Romania held the rightful ownership of these lands, as they did with Bessarabia and The Cadrilater
@@thecringekid5744 No censuses were conducted before the mid-19th century therefor any such claim is speculative at best as it's not based on exact numbers. Naturally both Hungarians and Romanians claim majority but simple fact is its irrevelant. Before nationalist awakening ethnicity or spoken language was a n-th tier aspect of identity, which was primarily dominated by religion and class. A Hungarian peasent was little, if any more valuable in the eyes of a nobleman then a Romanian one. While Romanians do appear to lack much representation as seen in their exclusion from the Three Estates, its important to see that this was an alliance AGAINST PEASENTS of any sort and a direct reaction of a peasent revolt, conducted by German burghers, Szekler military and Hungarian nobility, NOT of three ethnicities.
To go on, terms like "Rightful ownership" is a romantic myth which has no other meaning then to galvanize populations and to act as a psychological background. The only thing that matters is de fact and de jur, eg whoever controlls a land and whetever this control is internationally recognized.
TheCringe Kid Hungary controlled Aerdel/ Erdély for at least a 1000 years, maybe more we dont know. The romanian people became a majority after their immigration into the carpathian bassin in the 16th century, because Hungary got depopulated after the wars against the ottomans. After the first world war Romania received Erdély even tho they lost the war cause Francr was allied to Romania and they wanted them to be stronger than Hungary.
@@324Levi the romanians are descendants of romanised dacians from the Roman Empire, much of transylvania compromises the ancient province of Dacia
@@armzngunz Thats an unproven hypothesis, at best.
Amazing
Tu esti tipul cu clipul de 50 de minute cu country balls.
@@alphadios2003 Da, el 😂
King Michael could low key become a model though.
he died
Right? 😍
Yeah he was handsome
We don't rly like him :/
Yeah he's a sexy gilf.
So, not only did Romania have to side with the axis that had two member states which took land, but after the war the country fell under soviet control...damn that luck.
Nope never under Soviet control Our Communist dictator hated The Soviets.
@@truck965 ceausescu wasn't the first, there were others before him, not to mention (as far as I know) more Soviet soldiers on our territory than our own army immediately after the war. Sure, the ussr didn't directly control the country but at first I doubt they could take action against the soviets
strig0i yup, before ceausescu, the leaders we had were stalinists who ruled under soviet rule and soviet regime. What ceausescu did was rather... weird.
@@laurentiuiordache4019
Romanian communists were nationalists too. They weren't very different from the fascists except I doubt the fascists would have collectivised the land.
Alan Pennie true, especially ceausescu who rly concentrated on building a weird national identity, not in the sense that it’s wrong, but in the sense that it concentrates on the part of our people that doesn’t rly influence us that much. What i mean by that is that he focused on the dacian side of our people and not the roman one. It’s true that the dacians in the end got romanised which can be seen clearly through our language, but we didn’t focus on any outside forces like the romans or the hohenzoleren dinasty, (if that’s how you spell it) but rather on legends and historical medieval leaders like Stephan the Great, Iancu Of Hunedoarea, Mircea the Old just to name a few. Now, I’m not saying that those weren’t important, they fucking were vital to our country, but carol the first or ferdinand the first who made our country independent, industrialized it and united it or all the political parties and polticians who were also vital to the developing modern Romania seem truly unforgetable. Although they couldn’t put that in the school books ‘cause monarchy bad and evil.
Now for King Michaels Coup!
General_Dave 1 I NEED THIS!!!!!
The main reason that the USSR and Germany wanted Romania
Vampires are really useful
If u Consider that you have to take Gypsy with vampires, that's the bundle, vampires become useless
Gros Lait Bulgaria got more gypsies than Romania tho.
our gipsy will steal your internet cable , car wheels or other metal parts then sell them to the scrapyard so consider we are going to steal full tanks xd
@@randomcat9314 Even Blitztank?
V. V. Emil even your Blitztank..
they’re training on stealing trains litteraly, i feel like they can steal even your helicopter ;-;
Our entire history was motivated by our desire to survive as a nation. And we did.
@@notnormal2994 even if you wanted to invade us nowadays, you couldn't. Both Romania and Hungary are part of EU and NATO, and such one's invasion by the other would lead the latter to gain harsh resistance from other countries and economic penalties.
Being a Romanian, I truly love my country. It has survived through history as all other countries in the world, with blood shed to keep the culture and originality of people and culture as intact as possible.
As a Romanian, I have always appreciated and respected Hungary: it's people, it's culture, I find your language to be so beautiful and unique. And I truly mean it! Would love to visit Budapest one day! :)
What happened stays in the past, and we should only learn from it. History has been subjective in so many cases that a Hungarian-Romanian dispute/fight/argument over who deserves to own Transylvania would lead to nowhere, would only do harm and be a waste of time, since both countries and their historians have their own perspectives on what happened.
No one knows or holds the absolute, undeniable truth, but God (or whatever external, uncontrollable force we are led by).
So let's be friends, if not friends at least understand, support and respect each other without interfering! In these harsh times, being united is essential as hatred, racism, extremist ideologies, lack of communication, and so on only do harm to both sides!
The most important conclusion is that we are both humans and have things in common even if we have different religions and different ethnic backgrounds, diversity is so beautiful!
Viszlát, jó egészséget és boldogságot kívánok!
La revedere, iti urez multa sanatate si fericire!
Goodbye, wish you to be very healthy and happy!
:)
murim mai bine-n luptă, cu glorie deplină, / decât să fim sclavi iarăși în vechiul nost’pământ!
@@notnormal2994 we took is back lol
@@notnormal2994 Lol stfu , be thankful we didn’t remain in Budapest when we invaded your soarry ass in august 1919!
@@notnormal2994 Transylvania, the birthplace of the Dacians and the region of their first capital, Sarmisegetusa.
Our ancestors have literally lived in Transylvania more than Hungary has years in Europe. Its an Ancient region, stoopid.
Now, it doesen't matter that you live in a bad place, you understand opression and that's why you cannot adopt revisonism as your attitude. Hungarian revisionism is the worst possible attitude you can have, just look at Hungary's position in regards to Russia at the moment. Absolutely disgusting and smelling of a new Dictate of Rome
Romania:Hi
Eveyone else:Oh hi my new teritory
*Oh hi my old territory back
@@No-bb1jq It always belonged to Romania
@@grumpycreeper WeirdChamp
@@grumpycreeper 100=always in romanian... interesting
This made things so clear, wow. Great job, love these videos!
Ironic but both the USSR and Germany urged Hungary to pressure Romania.
@Tifrea Adelin "What claim?"
Oh just you know, thousands of Hungarians living there...
@Tifrea Adelin Yeah, but Romanian is a Romance language, which of course comes from modern day Italy, so by your logic you should just go back to Italy. Or everyone should just go back to Africa and give back Europe to the Neanderthals and Mammoths.
@Tifrea Adelin You should read your history better. Romans were a minority in Dacia. Before the Romans Dacia was inhabited by Dacians. And they were forced to become Romans, did you know that? By that logic you have no right to be there, you should go back to Italy.
Also, yes, but we played our cards right. Is Hungarian history of luck? Sometimes. Schemes and lying? Maybe. But Romanians have that same luck too - you literally got free land from getting invaded in 1916
Romania acting as shield? Dude the Turks literally got to Vienna and almost took it.
@Tifrea Adelin In 1919? You originally wanted to take all lands till the river Tisza. You didn't because the Entente protested.
"Hungarians would kill their brother..." What? Thats just slander.
Matthias Corvinus wasn't Romanian that's a lie. He did have romanian ancestry I'll give you that, however he never claimed to be romanian.
This comment of yours was just 3 lies.
It's a shame we have people in Romania who are so radicalized against hungarians. It's also a losers game. You have nothing else to do than feed on the troubled history of this country? That is so lame. I went in Budapest a couple of times, it's a beautiful city with nice people. Did I see hungarian enemies in the streets, in the museums? NO. Romania amd Hungary in 2019 shall be friends, it's the future that demands this. Only toxic politicians feed thoss with a weaker mind and set romanians against hungarians. Are there still problems in our society? Are romanians of hungarian origin still refusing to learn romanian? Yes, there are some. But you will not make them open their minds by telling them how awesome Romania was and is and how Hungary is an accident of luck and schemes. You could say that about half the countries in the world. And considering the many many houndreds of years we lived toghether in peace or war, there should not be a single person who dares to claim ,,we were first,, or ,,we are more something than you,,. You guys need to get rid of Orban and prove that you are our european frindly neightbours and we must get rid of our corruption and promote peace and integration better, while preserving cultural identity. And be a friendly neightbour also.
Hitler: Join and we'll protect you
Also Hilter: *marks what he'll give to Bulgaria and Hungary*
respect to Romania from Poland, for so much help to Poland during war even if your king been slain for it by nazi groups. I hope he is proud in heaven now
Romania is Poland's friend everytime!(sorry for my english,im romanian)
Cosmin 125 Quite the contrary.
Skorpion1991 This must be a joke.
@@zoltancsikos5604 no , in 1939 we helped Poland ,all their refugees and soldiers , who escaped by that "sandwich" made by Nazis ans Soviets ,escaped through Romania, they goes to The Black Sea port , then via maritime fleet goes in Great Britain ...and that when Hitler demand Romania to close borders with Poland , WE REFUSED ,because we signed with Poland a treaty that specify that in the case of war , safe passage between our countries it's allowed ... remember that was in september 1939 ,when Romania was neutral ,and nazis don't control yet The Kingdom of Romania at the time ...that was in 1940 , one year later
Our king wasn't slain. He was exiled by the commies and died in dec. 2017.
2:26 when this is the symbol for neutrality
This sums it up pretty accurately. As a german of romanian origin interested in history, I am completely satisfied with the video. Nicely done!
Robert You aren’t German, you’re just a Romanian. Migrants need to stop pretending.
@@zoltancsikos5604 you are a troll ,i know you ,i follow many times on youtube ,commenting acid towards us ,but i don't care too much ,really! :) i see you with your face becoming red from hate ,,,the blood pumping fast in your veins ,i suppose ...
@@zoltancsikos5604 Says the trash that migrated from the Ural Mountains and always complains and whines and spreads false propaganda
@@zoltancsikos5604 u just a sad mongol lol
Your videos are awesome and entertaining. Thanks mate
I absolutely love these series
Short, clear, concise, and still packed with information
"Romanian Old Lands lie here"
1918 - 1941
1 = 1 Romanian in Foreign lands saved
general molestor lol ce username ai :)))
I made Romanian Subtitles if you're interested
Nice username brother
the soviet union had never any "right" to bukovina according to any "protocol", it was a soviet initiative and it caused a brief stir in the nazi leadership
Yes
In an age of long documentaries I feel his guy is so overlooked for his brilliance to respectfully summarise history with accuracy.
What about why Bulgaria or Hungary join the axis or a odd one why Thailand join japan in ww2
Bulgaria and hungary are fairly self evident hungary had claims on yugoslavia, slovakia, and romania and the germans were willing to help with that, Bulgaria had claims on greece and Yugoslavia and the axis also wanted to invade those countries
Pretty much the same reasons
Bulgaria and Thailand joined the Axis not to be invaded by them. and Hungary joined because the Germans were giving them free land.
@@mihailupu5107 Dont forget Hungary and Bulgaria were staunchly anti-communist and went with the lesser two of the evils.
@@kyleschafer6275
well yeah but that wasnt the main reason they joined the Axis
Very well made it. Congratz!
*Love Your Channel! It has helped me lots with school work! Thank you!*
Your name is perfect for the video 😂
Le DaVinci *Ikr...*
can you do more videos about Romania?there are a lot of misconceptions about us
Adrian Romania? thats another name for Italy 🇮🇹 right?
Recreationalnukes42 LMAO
Romanians smell bad and hate romani people. Fin.
@@npc2071 😂😂😂😂
@@npc2071 everyone hates romani people
Man it’s sad seeing how few patrons you have! You deserve so much more
Great episode, well done!
Excellent video. 👍👍
Short, to the point.
1:15 - This is incorrect.
Actually the Hungarians and Romanians were doing the talks in Turnu-Severin (or Szörényvár) but these talks had failed since the Hungarians wanted large swaths of land back while the Romanians only offered a limited zone next to the border. Therefore the Romanians asked the Germans to make a decision. The Germans accepted on the condition that both parties have to accept the results =before= even knowing the details. That is how the Second Vienna Award happened.
The decision was made by the german minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Italian collegue, Galeazzo Ciano. Rumor has it, after the decision Ribbentrop sent the following telegram to Hitler: " Complete success! The Hungarian minister burst into tears, and the Romanian one fainted."
Germany: Romania we will give you some of the soviet unions stuff if you help us invade them
Romania: and if we lose?
Germany: we dont have to talk about that
i miss your longer videos. I WANT MOAR
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
Eternal respect to our Romanian brothers from Germany 🇩🇪
German people are Great. 🇷🇴🇩🇪
They literally betrayed us man
@Really Bruh? Darklysm thats called used, not betrayed
@Really Bruh? not switching sides but giving Hitler access to Oil stacks making him able to fight both fronts cos riches people afraid to loose power and luxurious life. Also it is against common sense to blame the country's people imposing collective responsibility for minority deeds not to mention the country itself wich is just a property without collective mind.
Edwin Van der Saar if you are german then I'm the queen of England.
Suggest: Why did Italy fail at everything in ww2?
And WWI and the war before it.
@montecuccoli Yes I've heard about the Vitoria Mutillata
@montecuccoli Ma che cazzo sta dicendo? Avete vinto solo perchè volevate indietro Trieste, nei libri si parla di "Vittoria Mutinata" ma non si cita neanche il fatto che gli Italiani abbiano TRADITO i propri alleati. Al tavolo dei voncitori l'Italia era "secondaria".
Because they had no prepared army, not enough resources to support the bois fighting. After that there is the thing that when ww2 started italy had ww1 equipment and when going to Russia, italians had the same dresses when going in Africa. Basically thats all.
@Manny Belgrano Guarda che la prima guerra mondiale l'abbiam vinta anche noi, e comunque me lo aspettavo dall'italiano medio di tirare in ballo le sue scuse. Qui non stiamo parlando della Romania, ma dell'Italia.
Ah, e comunque, tanto per la cronaca, nel '44 ci siamo arresi, non abbiamo cambiato parte o altro. Prima di parlare a vanvera prendi un libro di storia.
U should do a war of 1812? Or Napoleon wars? Also love the channel found it 3 days ago and have been binge watching all ur vids!
Probably the best history channel out there
why is the " SI SI SI SI SI SI SI" shield with mr bald mans face so funny at 1:33
‘People do not matter, only what they represent’ - Ion Antonescu
România aka: that tasty piece of oil everyone wants
We watched one of your videos in our english Class. Our theme at the moment is the Uk and we are starting with the British Empire
Maybe you should start with spelling.
@@newclouds544 Maybe you should start learning a new language and talk to him only when you are proficient enough in it. Seriously, he knows 2 languages, he is bound to make some mistakes. I myself am a quadrilingual, I know 4 languages.
@@newclouds544 Are you happy now? Jesus Christ, ever heard of mistyping?
Shivam Purohit Me too. I know Portuguese, Spanish, English and German, currently learning French.
@@shivampurohit1331 Nice! I know română, english, and some pyc, and can understand espanol un poco)
Romania didnt incorporate territories from other countries, Romania incorporated back its historical territories. Transylvania and Basarabia were speaking the same language as the rest of Romania's Vallachia and Moldova, long before the magyar tribes arrived in Pannonia.
Basarabia was a romanian territory anexed by Russia earlier, it wasn’t a russian territory romania got after ww1, it was rightful part of the country
as a romanian i can assure you that this video is 100% accurate.
btw i love your channel keep up the good work and please do more videos about romania because we had a very interesting history(and also a sad one at the same time)
Yep,we've been trough russian ocupation,fascism,communism and now we are at the bottom of most things.We have a nice country,with rich resources but our politicians are selfish and corrupt.Think about the fact that we had the revolution and eliminated the communists,but the first president of Romania was Ion Iliescu,which was a former member of the communist party.I think that we just need a good president like Carol the first,or maybe we should go back to being a kingdom?
Anyway,i wrote this in english so there will be more people that will understand this.I wish you the best of luck,brother!
Romanian liberalism and the movement for unification would be a cool topic.
omule cred ca nu esti roiman asculta ce se spune ca am luat teritori de la rsusi cum cuind eraqu ale noastre deci acest video este fals
100% accurate, but forgot to mention that Bessarabia was Romanian territory taken by the Russians. Romania just wanted it back.
I'm surprised Bulgaria got to keep that bit they got in 1940, usually any ill-gotten landgrabs from WW2 or before were returned afterward
All of this is true even when playing HOI4. Every time I tried to stay Neutral I couldn't because my Romanian Lands kept being eaten. so eventually I stopped playing Romania because I didn't want to side with the axis. I concluded that Romania's choice was the only really good decision for the country as a whole. even at the end they got some land back. so win, win.
A video about my country!Thanks History Matters!You guys are great!It's really unfortunate that we lost our territory. I don't really care about the Bulgarian part, but Bessarabia was rightfully ours and seeing it taken and still separated to this day really makes me feel sad.
Tell the Moldovans to vote for reunification
Aaron,it's not that easy.Unlike Romania,Basarabia(Or the Republic of Moldova as its called) was a part of the Soviet Union.And boy,let me tell you,they influenced them A LOT.Their president is pro-russian and would rather unite with Russia than Romania.What is sad is that we are pretty much the same people,we speak almost the same language(a few russian words here and there like"borș")and we fought for unity with all the principalities that were under foreign rule(Transylvania,Bucovina,Basarabia).A unitited Romania is a patriotic dream that will remain in our minds and hearts untill it is fulfilled
Im sorry if got out of context,i like speaking about history and especially my country!
@@dahness564 No problem man! It's interesting. Stalinism ruined a lot of stuff, including the unity of the Romanian people. Maybe as new generations come up, Moldova will become more and more pro-Western. Do they have any interest in joining the EU?
@@aaronmarks9366 hell no lol,fuck the moldovans
Hope someday Romania will be united and regain its rightful territory from ruSSofascist oppresion!
Romania 30':
1939:Improvise,Addapt,Overcome
very well done!
Thanks for the video. 😃👍
Great video. There are some inacuracies, the way I see it. The Viena Award wasn't previously agreed by Romania ("offered up this land"), Germany imposed it as previous negociations at Turnu Severin failed. And former King Carol II crossed Switzerland but fled to Spain, were he was forced to stay until fleeing to Portugal. And he didn't take national reserve gold, but a lot of money and a valuable stamp collection. As for Bulgaria's, the talks started earlier, not on September 7th 1940.
Please note that the territorries we"took from other countries" were ours to begin with, being inhabited mostly by Romanians
Agreed. It’s the same with us Americans. Canada should be ours.
@@wyattmcgee1 both of you are the so...
@@wyattmcgee1 It isn't and the American Mexican war and the Creole expulsions are a shining example of the countries rulers will for peace on their terms, but I unlike some idiots don't blame every person in a country for the things its leadership did in the past and so have no problem with you or most modern "Americans".
@@wyattmcgee1 no the US should still be a colony of the UK
Sudetenland was also populated by Germans. I don’t see anyone justifying Germany’s annexation
Really like the Videos. Keep it up.
Love the Videos!
Ion Antonescu is still a controversial character in Romania
Let's not forget how many Romanian farmers he killed during the uprising of 1907. Then he sent a lot of Romanian soldiers to die senselessly in Stalingrad, deep into USSR territory. It was the Putin of his days... But Romanians still admire this type of characters, which is regrettable. Why didn't Antonescu fight with Hungarians and Nazis?? I bet he had a better chance that fighting on the eastern front.
@@gigikontra7023in 1940 urss was still an Hitler ally, it would have literally been a poland like the guy says in the video, and I think we definitely would have been incorporated into the urss post war
Do one about the Bavarian PR, how it was formed and how it collapsed
I've watched all these videos and I'm rewatching them now 😬
Please make it "Why Germany join Axis"
You are dumb Germany created Axis Powers.
@@alexandrumihai7126 now playing "Who asked, feat. Nobody did"
Romania in the 1930s: exists
CURRENT OBJRCTIVE: SURVIVE
Wow... An actual accurate history video about Romania... How strange
@Alpha the Infinite you romanians are really getting brainwashed by the goverment, modifying the history so it would sound better that you in fact stole territories from other nations....
Bence Faragó i dunno if we got brainwashed but 1 thing is clear we did and didn’t stole land :v
@Greater Romania Ball actually it's history now, it's your land, whatever. just don't treat hungarians like shit there
@@bencefarago9528 did we ever treat em bad? how have you treated us in the first world war and in 1920? fucking rats
SGS Most of them (besides the Ceausescu era Romanian Protochronist Nonsense) are accurate. Just watch more, or read or something.
Great video. Will you continue us the English and British history series?
cool beans! love your vids
Please do the italo-ethiopian war of 1895
1:38
Love the attention to detail. Although the cartoons look simplistic, that map on the wall shows hastily scribbled out territory, to reflect the recent loss of lands.
i'd love to see this guy do a 10 minute video on the Great Schism
Well done!!!