What do Poles owe to Romanians?

After the amasing successes of What do Poles owe to various nationalities, it is time for Romanians.

The latest example: Romanians came to Warsaw to attend a military parade on the Polish Army Day 15 Aug. Their armour appeared right after Americans and Brits. Quite a surprise!

The best-selling cars in Europe come from Romania.

You mean Dacia?? Yes, a few of my mates or students` parents drive them.

Romanians love things starting with d - Dacia, Dracula, etc.

Allowed remnants of the Polish army to escape in 1939 and carry on the fight against the Nazis (and stopped thrm being murdered by Hitler's Soviet Allies)

Yes, that`s what I primarily had in mind while starting the thread. Thousands of the Polish army personnel crossed the Polish Romanian border when the situation became hopeless after two nasty allies, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, partitioned Poland.
Those escapees were officially interned by the Romanian authorities but later on gradually, one by one, they were allowed to leave their internment camps and go West or in some cases return to Poland. Romanians did it out of friendship or bribes.
Whenever I read a story of a famous soldier who fought in the Western Front, I regularly ran into this info: escaped from the camp in Romania and moved to France/Britain to carry on fighting.

Here is a nice article throwing some light on their adventures.

ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl/2012/05/31/polak-potrafi-jak-polscy-piloci-uciekali-z-rumunskiej-niewoli/

The first group escaped from the camp in a very simple way. They pulled a large barrel on wheels, normally used for transporting water, out of the shed, loaded their belongings into it and dragged it, shouting in Romanian:

- Apa! [i.e. water - author's note]

The guard, convinced that they were going for water, opened the gate and let the whole group out. Fifteen minutes later, a large group of soldiers marched out of the camp, carrying in their backpacks boards from a building that had been specially dismantled for this purpose. They were led by a colleague dressed in the uniform of a Romanian guard. And the guard let them out without any problems.

Few people know that in September 1939 ships carrying military supplies for Poland were sailing to Romania, and if the Russians had not entered Poland on September 17, who knows how the war would have turned out.

Both Poland and Romania defeated the Soviet influence in the same year - 1989. Romania got rid of Nicolae Ceaușescu back then.

Executed.

He was executed in 1989, but in the same year Poles elected a known socialist, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as the president of Poland. Didn't they hear the news about Ceaușescu or were just ignorant?

The General wasn't Ceaucescu, wasn't a dictator and Poland isn't Romania.


Plenty of political leaders around the world today are proud to wear that banner. All it means is that the workers control the means of production.

...if they purchase the means of production and assume the risks.

If they didn't they are thieves.

Are CEOs workers?

That's not exactly true. Jaruzelski was elected president by the parliament of Poland, not by the people of Poland.

...you mean Soviet collaborators ...or is this word reserved only for Nazi collaborators who speak French...

Many today view his legacy as more nuanced than in black and white terms.

And I take my hat off to any nonagenarian who shags a nurse on his deathbed...