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With regards to later developments yes, but your thesis that Romania was democratic except for external pressures isn't tenable. Yes, Romania eventually was pu
by huxley 10y ago
With regards to later developments yes, but your thesis that Romania was democratic except for external pressures isn't tenable.
Yes, Romania eventually was put under the heel of both Nazi Germany and the Soviets, both had to use force to impose their control, but it looks to me like it was becoming a totalitarian state before that.
As I read more, King Carol II played off different factions within the country to advance his own dictatorial control of Romania. The 1938 coup seems to have been entirely internal and it may have been planned as early as 1937.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_II_of_Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_II_of_Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Constitution_of_Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Constitution_of_Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renaissance_Front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renaissance_Front
- oblio 10y agoTo quote from your last link: > Largely reflecting Carol's own political choices, the FRN was the last of several attempts to counter the popularity of the Iron Guard, itself a fascist and antisemitic movement. The fact that Carol was able to seize power to such a degree was a problem. As was Carol itself. But I don't think it's a coincidence that his dictatorship coincided with the post-Great Depression period and the rise of Fascism and Nazism (i.e. external pressures). Or with the power struggles in the region between pro-French/British factions and pro-German ones.