Legionarism: Christianity is not a pacifist religion

Thread ↓ "Turn the other cheek, right?" No.

Many use this verse to deny Christians the right and, depending on the context, even the duty of fighting back when under attack.

This sentence does not mean what many Christians think it means and I will explain to you why.

Legionarism: How men became weak and gay, and why they must die in order to be born again

Thread ↓ The founder of the Legionary school, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, identified early on the ongoing feminization and godlessness of the modern man.

I think we were given an excellent example during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris.

Legionarism: How the Country's National Elite Determines Its Downfall or Success

Thread ↓ Codreanu was a passionate critic of democracy

He argued that the masses cannot rule themselves and therefore require an elite of individuals to lead them while upholding the interests of the eternal nation

🇷🇴 The Romanian Army: 1877

In 1877, Romania fought its War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, becoming a kingdom shortly afterward

Here is a summary of the units of the Romanian Army at that time

Thread ↓ The first image shows Prince Carol I (after the war of 1877, King Carol I)

He is embodied in a uniform of a general en-chef, in ceremonial dress, and behind him is a royal aide-de-camp officer also in ceremonial dress

🇷🇴🇧🇬 The Bulgarian-Romanian Kingdom: A union that never came to be

Thread ↓ Background

Both Bulgarians and Romanians trace at least part of their ancestry back to Thracian and Dacian tribes that habitated the Balkans in ancient times

🇷🇴🇷🇸 Starina Novak: Michael the Brave's most loyal general

A tale of Romanian-Serbian friendship (Thread) ↓ Novak was one of the most capable generals of Michael the Brave, the man who would unite the Romanian Principalities for the first time in history

This legendary hero, of Serbian origin, was born around 1520 in the village of Poreci, Serbia, near the Danube

🇷🇴 Romanian Fascist Architecture and Sculpture

Similar to their Italian counterparts, the constructions had to be imposing and giving the royalty a greater significance

The architecture and sculpture were simple, elegant and filled with national symbolism

Thread ↓ The Transnistria Exhibition pavilion was built in Bucharest in 1941

The exhibition honored Romania's conquest at the Eastern Front

🇷🇴 The Tactics of Vlad the Impaler: Asymmetrical & Psychological Warfare

Raids, battles, and campaigns are all synonymous with Vlad III, the Impaler

Behind the legend, however, lies the history of an excellent military commander

Thread ↓ While it is easy to label Vlad as a bloodthirsty maniac due to many myths, his actions were rarely impulses but rather calculated actions aimed to demoralize his enemies

He played his part as a leader and commander in one of the most dangerous times in European history

🇷🇴 Moldavia: Founding & Independence

Known as one of the three Romanian principalities along with Wallachia and Transylvania, the Principality of Moldavia played an important role in Romanian history

Thread ↓ In 1353, a Romanian ruler from Maramureș named Dragoș, who was under Hungarian suzerainty, was sent by the Hungarian king to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde around the Siret River (today part of the region of Moldova in Romania)

🇷🇴🇵🇱 Polish Highlanders also known as "Gorals" and their connection with Romanians

Thread ↓ Between the 13th and 15th centuries Romanian shepherds from Transylvania started migrating and settling around Central Europe following the Carpathian Mountain range

🇷🇴 How fashion giants like Dior and Louis Vuitton steal Romanian Folk Clothing designs and sell them as their own "original" creations for up to €30,000

A Thread ↓ In 2017 Dior launched a collection featuring folk motifs

Soon people began to see that many of them looked very similar to those of traditional Romanian clothing from Bihor

🇷🇴 Life in Romania during the Interwar Period and WW2: 15 Pictures

1. Little boy doing the Roman salute, better known as 'Nazi salute' 2. Men building a pyramid

🇷🇴 The Pitești Experiment: The Eastern Bloc's Most Brutal Prison

The experiment carried out in the Pitești Prison in Romania, aimed to torture and brainwash prisoners into absolute loyalty towards Romania's communist party

A thread ↓ The experiment was carried out between 1949 and 1951
on up to 5,000 prisoners from which up to 200 died in the process

The experiment is often refered to as the largest and most intensive brainwashing torture program in the Eastern Bloc

🇷🇴 Tudor Vladimirescu & the Wallachian Uprising of 1821

Tudor Vladimirescu was the leader of the Wallachian Uprising of 1821 which led to the end of the Phanariote rule in Wallachia

Thread ↓ Tudor was born in 1780 in the village of Vladimiri, Wallachia which was a vasal of the Ottoman Empire and under Greek Phanariote rule at the time.

The Phanariotes were viewed as oppressors by the Romanians which would lead to the 1821 uprising lead by Vladimirescu.

🇷🇴 When Romanian Folklore Meets Horror-Fantasy

Romanian artist, Rada Nița Josan, creates detailed drawings combining Romanian folklore with Horror-Fantasy elements.

Here 12 examples of her work ↓

1. "Enchanter from Bucium visiting Bistrița" 2. "Vision"

🇷🇴 Easter in Romania: Hristos a înviat! (Christ is risen!)

Romania as an Eastern Orthodox country celebrates the most important Christian holiday, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, on May 5th.

This is how Easter is celebrated in Romania ↓ Millions of Romanians put on traditional clothing and attended the midnight service at the church the day before Easter.

A few minutes after the clock strikes midnight, all the lights in the Church are turned off.

🇷🇴 Romania's secret language

For some people they may look like random symbols sewed on a piece of cloth, but not for people in Romania.

Every stitch is a coded message with deep meaning, telling the world the story of its creator.

Thread ↓ Some of these symbols come from times long forgotten, the times of the first sedentary people of Europe, the first craftsmen and builders of settlements, the first ceramic artists (Cucuteni, Gumelnita Hamangia etc.).

🇷🇴 The Dacian Wars: The conflict that would create the Romanian nation

The Dacian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Roman Empire and the Dacian Kingdom.

As a consequence, Dacia got romanized, laying the foundation for the modern Romanian nation.

Thread ↓ Domitian's Dacian War

In 85 CE, Decebalus, the future king of Dacia, invaded the Roman province of Moesia.

The provincial governor Oppius Sabinus met the Dacian army with Legio V Macedonia, however, the governor was among the heavy casualties, forcing the legion to retreat.

🇷🇴 Romania’s Anti-communist Resistance Movement

In March 1944, the Soviet Red Army invaded Bucovina and began the “liberation” of Romania.

People fled into the forests and surrounding mountains and began forming Anti-Bolshevik Partisan Units.

Thread ↓ A lot of people joined the volunteer batallions which soon numbered in the thousands, however, this was not even nearly enough to stop hundreds of thousands of communists invading the country.

Map of Romania with armed resistance areas marked in red.

🇷🇴 Stephen the Great: The Romanian Warrior Saint

Stephen defeated a 100,000-strong Ottoman army, built countless churches, became a saint and the champion of Christ.

Thread ↓ Stephen was born in the 15th century in the Principality of Moldavia, one of two Romanian Principalities, the other being Wallachia.

Transylvania back then was occupied by Hungary.

Iancu Jianu: The Nobleman Turned Haiduc

Haiducs were outlaws and rebels, known for their defiance against oppression and social injustices.

They often fought against foreign rule or corrupt local authorities, and are considered popular folk heroes in Romania.

Thread ↓ Born in 1787 to a noble family, Jianu didn't lack anything, his reasons for becoming a Haiduc were more of romantic nature, a love or the desire to avenge injustices in his country.