Despre ruși și rusofobie în România anilor ’40
On Russians and Russophobia in Romania in the 1940s

Summary/Abstract: A constant attitude in the interwar Romanian society, anti-Russianism and anti-Sovietism came to a peak in the early fifth decade. June 1941 was recorded in the collective memory not only as a singular episode of revenge for national humiliation but also as a singular moment of revolt against destructive vicinity. Russophobia reached a high in the fifth decade. Two distinct periods can be identified in this respect: the war and *the years after August 1944, actually up to King Mihai’s abdication in December 1947, when Romanian society faced two closely interconnected realities: the Soviet military presence, which worsened even more the negative image, given the violence and the abuse, and the attempt to impose a communist regime. The Romanian-Soviet “brotherhood” and the subsequent “friendship” did not pass the test of time. The way the autochthonous communist leadership acted in the early and mid-60s proved how frail the circumstantial pro-Soviet attitudes were.

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