Regarding the accusations some people are making against the anti-communist partisan movement claiming its members were former fascist Iron Guard "Green Shirts" I have something to say: this is word for word communist propaganda as it was disseminated in the 50's and 60's communist regime controlled media.
I am old enough to remember being taught in school during the political indoctrination classes that the "bandits fighting in the mountains" were "fascist legionaries, paid agents of the Americans and enemies of the people". The communist propaganda machine also commissioned several full feature movies showing the partisans as being former Nazi collaborators paid to overthrow the people's republic by their American and British allies.
As always with the communist propaganda the truth was quite the opposite. The members of the armed resistance were people representing all social classes and political ideologies (less the communist left). They were members of the National-Peasant party (conservative), Liberal Party, Social Democrats, former remnant members of the fascist Iron Guard as well as people without any political affiliation. They were army officers, intellectuals, teachers, blue collar workers, priests, sheepherders, doctors and simple peasants who never participated in an election. They were the sons and daughters of those Romanians who were disarmed, arrested, deported tortured and killed by the Soviet puppet communist regime of Romania. They were Romanians, as well as Hungarians, Moldavians and Macedo-Romanians. The representatives of the Iron Guard were but a small percentage of this popular uprising. In fact, the large majority of the members of the Iron Guard fascist movement including their leader Horia Sima followed the German retreat from Romania in 1944 and never came back.
So it is preposterous and a slap in the face of true Romanian heroes and anti communist freedom fighters to paint them as being all fascists.
Looks like a terrific movie. I had no idea the Romanians resisted like that.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looks good. Keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteThe resistance fighters were themselves fascists of a different stripe. I'd still like to see it though.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the accusations some people are making against the anti-communist partisan movement claiming its members were former fascist Iron Guard "Green Shirts" I have something to say: this is word for word communist propaganda as it was disseminated in the 50's and 60's communist regime controlled media.
ReplyDeleteI am old enough to remember being taught in school during the political indoctrination classes that the "bandits fighting in the mountains" were "fascist legionaries, paid agents of the Americans and enemies of the people".
The communist propaganda machine also commissioned several full feature movies showing the partisans as being former Nazi collaborators paid to overthrow the people's republic by their American and British allies.
As always with the communist propaganda the truth was quite the opposite. The members of the armed resistance were people representing all social classes and political ideologies (less the communist left). They were members of the National-Peasant party (conservative), Liberal Party, Social Democrats, former remnant members of the fascist Iron Guard as well as people without any political affiliation.
They were army officers, intellectuals, teachers, blue collar workers, priests, sheepherders, doctors and simple peasants who never participated in an election. They were the sons and daughters of those Romanians who were disarmed, arrested, deported tortured and killed by the Soviet puppet communist regime of Romania. They were Romanians, as well as Hungarians, Moldavians and Macedo-Romanians.
The representatives of the Iron Guard were but a small percentage of this popular uprising. In fact, the large majority of the members of the Iron Guard fascist movement including their leader Horia Sima followed the German retreat from Romania in 1944 and never came back.
So it is preposterous and a slap in the face of true Romanian heroes and anti communist freedom fighters to paint them as being all fascists.
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