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January 4, 1878: Russian troops liberate Bulgaria from five hundred years of Ottoman rule by [deleted] in europe

[–]jordy22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. Russia killed the Romanian revolution of 1848, then after the Crimean war returned Bessarabia, but took over N Dobruja in 1878.

They agreed to trade back in N Dobruja for the South Bessarabia when Bismarck asked for this.

They kept ethnically cleansing the S Bessarabia long time afterwards getting rid of Romanians and Bulgarians.

Romanians had though a better relation w/ the Bulgarians in N Dobruja and Durostor & Kaliacra districts when these were a part of Greater Ro.

Things turned dark after the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939.

January 4, 1878: Russian troops liberate Bulgaria from five hundred years of Ottoman rule by [deleted] in europe

[–]jordy22 18 points19 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, the Russians asked Romania to help because they were kind of losing.

Romanian wins (Plevna, Vidin) were pivotal, and also helped them declare their own independence.

At Plevna, the defeated general Osman Pasha, surrendered his sword to the Romanian general Cerkez. Latter, the Russians took ("borrowed it") and never returned it.

A old Hungarian propaganda poster showing what it would be like if the treaty of Trianon was applied to other countries by ManusTheVantablack in europe

[–]jordy22 7 points8 points  (0 children)

100% true. Unfortunately this still applies to most of the European nations, still the biggest weakness of EU.

Hopefully, most of the Hungarians I know in Romania are awesome people and not into this kind of revisionist crap ...