The Red Hydra: the expulsion of King Michael of Romania from the country in December 1990 Cover Image

Hidra Roşie: Expulzarea Regelui Mihai din Țară în decembrie 1990
The Red Hydra: the expulsion of King Michael of Romania from the country in December 1990

Author(s): Diana Mandache
Subject(s): History
Published by: MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI
Keywords: post-communism, King Michael of Romania; Romanian royal family; Crown Princess Margareta; royalty

Summary/Abstract: The Red Hydra: King Michael’s banishment from Romania, in December 1990 presents an analysis of the events that unfurled in the night of 25 December 1990, when King Michael of Romania arrived in his home country for the first time after an exile of 42 years. The new political power in Bucharest, which came after the fall of communism, was still very much acting and following the instincts of the Securitate, the communist political police, and moved swiftly to expel the king and his companions from Romania in the hours after they arrived

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 271-285
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian