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What do Poles owe to Romanians?


pawian  221 | 25662
19 Aug 2024   #1
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!
Alien  24 | 5891
19 Aug 2024   #2
Romanians

The best-selling cars in Europe come from Romania.
OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Aug 2024   #3
You mean Dacia?? Yes, a few of my mates or students` parents drive them.
Alien  24 | 5891
19 Aug 2024   #4
Dacia?? Yes,

Romanians love things starting with d - Dacia, Dracula, etc.
cms neuf  1 | 1869
19 Aug 2024   #5
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)
OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Aug 2024   #6
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.
OP pawian  221 | 25662
19 Aug 2024   #7
Thousands of the Polish army personnel crossed the Polish Romanian border

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.

Alien  24 | 5891
20 Aug 2024   #8
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.


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