Romanian-Russian clashes during WW1

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Any Romanian defections to the Bolshevic cause?

To my knowledge there were only isolated cases (not group desertions), which in general are not even mentioned. I read somewhere about those, but I don’t remember where and I can’t give you specific examples. At the end of 1918 (maybe 1919), when some French troops were guarding part of the Nistru river it was an attack and the Bolshevik were hoping to make the Algerian solders to desert. Only about 20 joined them.

About this fightings:

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/03...bolsevicii.html

About clashings in Basarabia

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/06...ii-batalia.html

In those fightings was KIA general Stan Poetas.

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/11...tan-poetas.html

This is what Wikipedia is mentioning about the events of Tatar-Bunar in 1924, when the "low" Romanian-Soviet relations got even lower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarbunary_Uprising

While in Western Europe there was peace (that kind of peace with hunger, unemployment and street fights), during 1919...1921 the events were very "hot" around Romania. This link is about the Polish-Soviet War:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War

Did Romania and Soviet Union had embassies and ambassadors before Nicolae Titulescu ?

This post has been edited by Florin on November 19, 2011 01:27 am

About Tatar Bunar, there is a chapter here (I don't know if it was posted before)

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/06...dupa-unire.html

No, there weren't. Diplomatic relations were broken since 1918.

There were many hot spots in Europe: Finnish war for independence (1918), Greek-Turkish war (until 1922), war in Caucasus

. . . And the Hungarian - Romanian war: 1919

PS: The wars mentioned by you can be considered "in the East". That includes the one I had added. So, as I wrote, the West could be considered "peaceful" - under hunger, unemployment, street fights and strikes, and the continuous fear of the oligarchy of being overthrown by the many poor people.

And now a swing from the topic: all people rights obtained in Western Europe, the United States and Canada in 70 years under the fear for the "big Red evil" are now flushed away, as the "big Red evil" is not a threat any more.
Something "Red" may happen again sooner than we thought possible. The problem is that the ideology always looks OK, but in the real world of "equal" people some are always more "equal" than others. I was told that the daughters of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej were traveling by airplane to Paris for hair stylist. The older son of Ceausescu was sent to Oxford to learn, and in few months he got a well deserved boot into ass. And some Soviet oligarchs under Stalin era, when they traveled by car in Moskow, if they spotted a woman they liked while she was passing on walkway, their henchmen would kidnap her on the spot, in broad daylight.

This post has been edited by Florin on November 19, 2011 04:19 pm

Reading about the origin and the objectives of the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921, I had discovered that the border set for Poland in 1945, and still valid today, is almost the same with "the Curzon Line" suggested by the British in 1920:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line
The "Curzon line" left Lwow/Lviv/Lemberg inside Poland. Stalin didn't.

It seems that before the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921, that part of Ukraine being under Poland until 1939 also belonged to Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918...1919, before being swallowed by the Polish armies in a campaign of conquest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic

This post has been edited by Florin on November 19, 2011 04:47 pm

Ukraine declared independence in 1918 as a former province of Russian Empire, but some part of its territories were part of old Polish kingdom who was divided between Russia, Prusia and Austria in XVIIIth century. Western part of Ukraine was Polish. The same, Austria took Bukovina in 1775, and Russia Basarabia in 1812.

In 1919 Romania and Poland were allies and their military cooperation was at highest levels. Romanian troops entered Pocutia to secure Polish troops flanks and to interdit any help that red Bolsheviks could sent to their allies in Hungary.
During this time, Poland asked Romania to divide together western Ukraine for themselves, but Romania refused.

On topic, about Romanian-Russian clashes during ww1, battles on Galati, Pascani, Falticeni so on:

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2012/05...oiul-roman.html