🇷🇴⚔️🇹🇷🇹🇷 The Romanian Declaration of Independence 9-10th May 1877

Meanwhile others celebrate today the end of WW2 under the form of the liberal-progressive “Day of Europe” or the Russian-Sovietophilic “Victory Day”, real Romanians celebrate our country’s independence.

Although the Declaration of Independence was read in front of the Romanian Parliament by the foreign minister, Mihail Kogălniceanu, on May 9th the actual war declaration against the Ottoman Empire came a day later on May 10th.

This declaration put an end to 460 years of Ottoman domination over the Danubian Principalities. At the time, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 broke out a few months earlier and the United Principalities had already broke its vassal treaty by giving the Russian armies the right to freely travel to its territory and attack the Turkish forces defending Bulgaria.

The Russians initially refused to employ the help of the Romanian Army even after declaring independence as they did not want to give territorial concessions to Romania but after failing to conquer the fortified town of Pleven/Plevna twice, the Russian commander in the area, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov sent a telegram to Bucharest asked for military support from Romania. The Romanian prince, Karl Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen said he would agree under the condition that the Russian forces fall under his command, condition which was accepted.

The Russians were now reinforced by an 80k strong Romanian Army. The new plan employed by Prince Karl/Carol was to lay siege to the town and cut the town’s supply lines as the Russians failed to to stop the Ottomans from receiving reinforcements and ammunition, and starve out the Turks. The plan worked, and in addition to several strategic assaults on Turkish defences like the Grivița redoubt aiming to put pressure and force a breakout, caused the Ottoman commander to give up and surrender to the Romanian command, which deeply angered the Russians.

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🇲🇩🇷🇺🇷🇺 Videos and images from the “Immortal regiment” parade in Chișinău and the flower laying ceremony at the “Eternity” complex memorial.

The parade went without incident or major obstacle other than some participants receiving fines for using the ribbon of St. George.

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🇲🇩🇪🇺🎉 In parallel, the “Day of Europe” was celebrated by liberal and progressives in Moldova. The crowds at both events were similar in numbers although with a stark difference: if the “Victory Day” was dominated by Russian speakers, the “Day of Europe” was dominated by Romanian speakers.

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🇲🇩🇪🇺🚩 If there’s one thing the both events had in common was the shared hatred of nazism and other fascist ideologies.

Some participants at the pro-EU event burned a ribbon of St. George to protest “Russian imperialism, racism, fascism and chauvinism” which they also equate with the USSR.

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