The situation of the metropolitan seat of Bukovina between May 1940 and March 1941 is fascinating. King Carol II basically forced Visarion Puiu to resign because of his pro-German and pro-Iron Guard position and Simedrea was brought in to replace him. When the National Legionary State was... 1/

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I'm reading Sanda Stolojan's diaries again. She ranks among the most democratic-minded Romanian Cold War exiles and yet paragraphs like this one, about Paul Celan, whose parents were murdered by Antonescu's pro-Nazi government, are hard to stomach.

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Exactly. He specialized in print making a perfected his style over years and years. On the bio, I couldn't establish if he came from a family of White refugees or had older ties to Bessarabia. He was active in that province in the early 30s before moving to Bucharest. vatra-mcp.ro/artisti-si-p...

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That one's by Gheorghe Ivacenco! Very, very gifted print maker. I tried to look into his bio a few years ago because it seemed interesting. Russian born, emigrated to Romania sometime in the '30s and, somewhat strangely, became immensely successful in the early years of communism.

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Poor horses...

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