BBC Report: Inside Europe's last leprosy colony ( Romania )

[Grishnack]

LOL, Romanians so god damned primitive. How can they be behind even Africa socially? How is that possible?

We are behind Africans, but not in front of them, as you are, being butt-raped.

[RN97]

ALL of the Central Powers were against Romania. At the same fucking time. A very poorly equipped and trained army holded it's own against all of that. And on top of that, 2 of the best generals in the whole war were dispatched against Romania: Falkenhayn and Mackensen. I say we did a pretty good job against you (the AH army was probably the least effective in the whole war). I won't even say anything about 1919. You should learn some respect.

It collapsed mostly due to Russia. The plan was supposed to be a offensive taking advantage of the Austro-Hungarians also being attacked by Russia, but they didn't really make any significant advance. Romania was attacked by Bulgaria, Germany and the Austro-Hungarians. Romanians had no help, they were hopeless in spite of an initial advance. There was no way Romania could take on the central powers by itself. Anyways, I strongly recommend this video, it's amazing. I watched the whole thing, covers pretty much everything important during WW1.

[Grishnack]

It collapsed mostly due to Russia. The plan was supposed to be a offensive taking advantage of the Austro-Hungarians also being attacked by Russia, but they didn't really make any significant advance. Romania was attacked by Bulgaria, Germany and the Austro-Hungarians. Romanians had no help, they were hopeless in spite of an initial advance. There was no way Romania could take on the central powers by itself. Anyways, I strongly recommend this video, it's amazing. I watched the whole thing, covers pretty much everything important during WW1.

I recommend you The Great War youtube channel, although I'm pretty sure you already know about them. A ton of material, covering each week.

[RN97]

I recommend you The Great War youtube channel, although I'm pretty sure you already know about them. A ton of material, covering each week.

I'm not that huge of a history(WW1 at least) nerd
I've watched some vids, but that dude covers shit only true WW1 nerds care about.

[ЛыSSый]

No wonder half of Romanians did not have in-house toilets in late 20th century

ay, one more butthurt post. they just need this stuff after ussr showed them such thing as shovel. and you're envy them cause you can't do such thing in your totalitarian police country.

[Grab the Gauge]

We are behind Africans, but not in front of them, as you are, being butt-raped.

All that curly hair in Romanians suggests otherwise.

[Grishnack]

All that curly hair in Romanians suggests otherwise.

I don't have curly hair, jackass. And not a single member of my family has curly hair. And it's rare. And it's not un-European. And you're a fucktard.

[Stears]

ALL of the Central Powers were against Romania. At the same fucking time. A very poorly equipped and trained army holded it's own against all of that. And on top of that, 2 of the best generals in the whole war were dispatched against Romania: Falkenhayn and Mackensen. I say we did a pretty good job against you (the AH army was probably the least effective in the whole war). I won't even say anything about 1919. You should learn some respect.

Romanian army had 658,088 soldiers in 1916, A-H army contained only 270 000 men during the romanian campaign, despite of this, they pulled back the Romanians before the 480,000 strong German Army started to operating. So your claims about numerical superiority is a dream.
Romania suffered the highest casuality ratio during the WW1, humiliatingly high.. Can we call them as real soldiers after that?
Romania was the only Entente country, whose government asked armistice and signed peace treaty with the central powers, even Serbian government refused to sign peace treaty or armistice with the Central powers, therefore serbian army and Government was evacuated to Island of Corfu by the Entente fleet. Serbs have stronger spine than Romanians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic#Foreign_policy_scandal_a nd_downfall
Foreign policy scandal and downfall


In late May, after the Entente military representative demanded more territorial concessions from Hungary, Kun attempted to "fulfill" his promise to restore Hungary's borders. In June, the Hungarian Red Army invaded the eastern part of the newly-forming Czechoslovak state (today's Slovakia), the former so-called "Upper Hungary". The Hungarian Red Army achieved some military successes: under the lead of Colonel Aurél Stromfeld, it ousted Czech troops from the north, and planned to march against the Romanian army in the east. Despite the communist promises about the restoration of the former borders of Hungary, the communist declared the establishment of the Slovak Soviet Republic in Prešov on 16 June 1919.^[14] After the proclaimation of the Slovak Soviet Republic, the Hungarian nationalists and patriots soon realized that the new communist government had not any intentions to recapture the lost territories, and their only real intention is the spreading of communist ideology and the establishment of communist states in Europe, thus they even sacrifice the Hungarian national interests.^[15] Despite the series of military victories against the Czechoslovak army, the Hungarian Red Army started to disintegrate due to the foreign policy scandal (the establishment of the Independent Slovak Soviet Republic) of the communist government. This concession shook the popular and military support of the communist regime. These events detached the professional military officers, the patriots and nationalists from the Hungarian Red Army. The military leader of the Red Army, Aurel Stromfeld, resigned in protest.^[16] When the French promised the Hungarian government that Romanian forces would withdraw from the Tiszántúl, Kun withdrew his remained military units (who had remained loyal after the scandal). Following the Red Army's retreat from the north, the Romanian forces were not pulled back.
Kun then unsuccessfully tried to turn the remained units of the demoralized Hungarian Red Army on the Romanians. The Hungarian Soviet found it increasingly difficult to fight Romania with the small volunteer force, and support for both the war and the Communist Party was waning at home. After the demoralizing retreat from Northern Hungary (later part of Czechoslovakia), only the most dedicated Communists having volunteered for combat. Romanian army broke through the weak lines of the Red Army on 30 July

[Grishnack]

Romanian army had 658,088 soldiers in 1916, A-H army contained only 270 000 men during the romanian campaign, despite of this, they pulled back the Romanians before the 480,000 strong German Army started to operating. So your claims about numerical superiority is a dream.
Romania suffered the highest casuality ratio during the WW1, humiliatingly high.. Can we call them as real soldiers after that?
Romania was the only Entente country, whose government asked armistice and signed peace treaty with the central powers, even Serbian government refused to sign peace treaty or armistice with the Central powers, therefore serbian army and Government was evacuated to Island of Corfu by the Entente fleet. Serbs have stronger spine than Romanians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic#Foreign_policy_scandal_a nd_downfall
Foreign policy scandal and downfall


In late May, after the Entente military representative demanded more territorial concessions from Hungary, Kun attempted to "fulfill" his promise to restore Hungary's borders. In June, the Hungarian Red Army invaded the eastern part of the newly-forming Czechoslovak state (today's Slovakia), the former so-called "Upper Hungary". The Hungarian Red Army achieved some military successes: under the lead of Colonel Aurél Stromfeld, it ousted Czech troops from the north, and planned to march against the Romanian army in the east. Despite the communist promises about the restoration of the former borders of Hungary, the communist declared the establishment of the Slovak Soviet Republic in Prešov on 16 June 1919.^[14] After the proclaimation of the Slovak Soviet Republic, the Hungarian nationalists and patriots soon realized that the new communist government had not any intentions to recapture the lost territories, and their only real intention is the spreading of communist ideology and the establishment of communist states in Europe, thus they even sacrifice the Hungarian national interests.^[15] Despite the series of military victories against the Czechoslovak army, the Hungarian Red Army started to disintegrate due to the foreign policy scandal (the establishment of the Independent Slovak Soviet Republic) of the communist government. This concession shook the popular and military support of the communist regime. These events detached the professional military officers, the patriots and nationalists from the Hungarian Red Army. The military leader of the Red Army, Aurel Stromfeld, resigned in protest.^[16] When the French promised the Hungarian government that Romanian forces would withdraw from the Tiszántúl, Kun withdrew his remained military units (who had remained loyal after the scandal). Following the Red Army's retreat from the north, the Romanian forces were not pulled back.
Kun then unsuccessfully tried to turn the remained units of the demoralized Hungarian Red Army on the Romanians. The Hungarian Soviet found it increasingly difficult to fight Romania with the small volunteer force, and support for both the war and the Communist Party was waning at home. After the demoralizing retreat from Northern Hungary (later part of Czechoslovakia), only the most dedicated Communists having volunteered for combat. Romanian army broke through the weak lines of the Red Army on 30 July

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani...anian_campaign

You're talking out of your ass, as usual. The Romanian front was the LONGEST in the whole fucking war.

While the Romanian Army was advancing in Transylvania, the first counterattack came from Field Marshal August von Mackensen in command of a multi-national force composed of the Bulgarian Third Army, a German brigade and two divisions of the Ottoman VI Army Corps, whose units began arriving on the Dobrudja front after the initial battles.

Overall command was now under Erich von Falkenhayn (recently replaced as German Chief of Staff), who started his own counterattack on 18 September.

To summarize for you: Romanians pushed the AH back in Transylvania then the front stabilized. But soon Mackensen attacked from the South. Falkenhayn (who was German, btw) came with the might of the German army and pushed the Romanians back. The AH army was known for its incompetence. Stears, do yourself a favor and don't try to argue with me on the topic of WW1 because my knowledge is vastly superior to yours.

Also, your claim that the Romanians had the largest ratio of soldiers killed is laughable, to say the least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani...s-Piechart.svg

[Grishnack]

AH was the most incompetent army in the war, just face it. Not the soldiers, but the command. Does the name of Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf tell you something?