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Thanks to the OP for this link. I just found out why USSR didn't invade Romania (a long time subject of speculation in Romania). We were poor, communists enough

Thanks to the OP for this link. I just found out why USSR didn't invade Romania (a long time subject of speculation in Romania). We were poor, communists enough, defenseless and not much of a threat. This is so funny when I remember how many naive Romanians thought our army had some "secret weapon " :D (actually we had, it was based on the beans served regularly to the soldiers :D).

kumarski 13y ago
courtesy of RDL.
antocv 13y ago
For westerners, "actually we had, it was based on the beans served regularly to the soldiers :D)" I think this means the secret weapon was heavy farts?
- leaveyou 13y ago
  yes, we liked to call them "weapons of mass destruction"...
guard-of-terra 13y ago
Why would USSR invade Romania? The only scenario I can think of is reinstating Communist government. Seriously, USSR didn't have plans to occupy and assimilate random foreign countries. Not as far as I know. And don't forget USSR depended heavily on Romanian furniture :)
- PeterisP 13y ago
  Keeping/reinstating Communist governments through military force was a cornerstone of USSR foreign policy for many decades at that point - e.g. Prague Spring.
  - guard-of-terra 13y ago
    Well, Romania was keeping Communist government so they didn't have to worry.
    - Jongseong 13y ago
      Concurrent to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, there was some unrest in Romania as well, and the Soviet military presence there was strengthened in response. Romania began to oppose the Soviet hegemony in the 1960s—Ceaușescu spoke out against 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and Romania built friendly relations with the anti-Soviet bloc. So it's not entirely a given that the Soviet Union would not have considered military intervention in Romania at some point like they did in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. You can't excuse the Romanians for wondering how their government could afford to get away with their open defiance of Soviet hegemony.

kumarski 13y ago

courtesy of RDL.

antocv 13y ago

For westerners, "actually we had, it was based on the beans served regularly to the soldiers :D)" I think this means the secret weapon was heavy farts?

leaveyou 13y ago
yes, we liked to call them "weapons of mass destruction"...

guard-of-terra 13y ago

Why would USSR invade Romania? The only scenario I can think of is reinstating Communist government. Seriously, USSR didn't have plans to occupy and assimilate random foreign countries. Not as far as I know. And don't forget USSR depended heavily on Romanian furniture :)

PeterisP 13y ago
Keeping/reinstating Communist governments through military force was a cornerstone of USSR foreign policy for many decades at that point - e.g. Prague Spring.
- guard-of-terra 13y ago
  Well, Romania was keeping Communist government so they didn't have to worry.
  - Jongseong 13y ago
    Concurrent to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, there was some unrest in Romania as well, and the Soviet military presence there was strengthened in response. Romania began to oppose the Soviet hegemony in the 1960s—Ceaușescu spoke out against 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and Romania built friendly relations with the anti-Soviet bloc. So it's not entirely a given that the Soviet Union would not have considered military intervention in Romania at some point like they did in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. You can't excuse the Romanians for wondering how their government could afford to get away with their open defiance of Soviet hegemony.