🇦🇱 Albanians: European by name, North African by soul
From slaves of the Ottomans and selling their religion for tax cuts, to drug dealers and the most criminal European group
A thread and analysis on the most failed nation in the history of the European continent
1. Albanian identity: A raped nation
The defining development in the identity of Albanians was the annexation by the Ottoman Empire
The marks which it left on the Albanian identity were so severe that in the 19th century Albanians were commonly refered to as "Mountain Turks"
"The mental attitude of the great mass of Albanians around 1900 to 1906 was bleak. Nobody felt like a member of an existing nation [...] 3/4 of the population answered when they were asked what they were, 'I am a Türk, elhamdüllilah'"
🇷🇴 The Legion of Archangel Michael: The last "Knightly Order"
The Legion was an organization with many facets, it struck with the sword against the internal enemies of Romania and stretched the hand for the people in need, resembling the long forgotten knightly orders
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The Legion of Archangel Michael was founded in 1927 in Romania by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and was the largest political movement of interwar Romania
The Legion was deeply rooted in Orthodox Christianity, from which all its values and principles arose
The Romanian state attempted to ban the Legion in 1933 due to its growing popularity among the population
Before the ban, the state killed 18 Legionaries and arrested thousands more in an act of political persecution
Tens of thousands of people across Romania are coming to Bucharest tomorrow to attend the consecration of Romania's National Cathedral, the largest Orthodox Church in the world
🇷🇴 The most important victories of Romanian Voievods (rulers) during the Middle Ages:
For hundreds of years, the Romanian Principalities fought against the Ottomans and Tatars, making the ultimate sacrifice to protect Europe and Christianity
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1. Mircea the Great (Wallachia) and the Battle of Rovine
In 1395, the Ottoman Empire under Bayezid I marched towards Wallachia with 48,000 attempting to conquer and annex the land as they had done recently with Bulgaria
Mircea assembled his 10,000 men and awaited the Ottomans
As Bayezid crossed the Danube, Mircea hit the Ottoman army with cavalry hit and run attacks until they made camp near the Wallachian capital to prepare the siege on Târgoviște, the capital
🇷🇴 George Simion presents plan for reunification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania:
"The time has come to change our institutional reporting and to look at Basarabia again with the eyes of a mother country that awaits its son at home."
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George Simion: "Romania has the historical, moral and strategic duty to treat the Republic of Moldova not as a neighboring country, but as a living part of our nation. A space broken by force, but never alienated in the soul.
Annexation of Basarabia by Soviet forces in 1940:
I will establish a department for the Republic of Moldova at the Presidency, headed by a presidential advisor dedicated exclusively to this file.
This department will have a fundamental role, in five strategic directions: