Tariceanu: 70 years ago, King Mihai managed to prevent Romania's turning into a warzone

70 years ago, King Mihai managed to prevent Romania's turning into a warzone, by proving courage, determination and responsibility for the country's fate, Romania's Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu shows in a message broadcast on Saturday.

According to him, the decided action of our country, which joined the Allies on August 23, 1944, contributed to the significant shortening of the war, sparing all Europe's peoples of immense suffering.

"The personal message His Majesty sent to all Romanians 70 years ago was from the first moment in the entire people's assent, while the heroic Romanian Army, in its integrality, proved from the first second that it was ready to spill its blood for the country. At the same time, the decided action of our country contributed to the significant shortening of the war, sparing all Europe's peoples of immense suffering," Calin Popescu-Tariceanu highlights.

The Senate President evokes the role of King Mihai who, "at that crucial moment, as head of state, assumed huge responsibilities, proving courage, determination and responsibility for the country's fate."

"In the context of some extremely difficult years for Romania and for the entire Europe, in a moment when geography placed our county in the middle of the battle between the great totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, the Nazi and the Communist regimes, His Majesty King Mihai I remains in our history a landmark of the fight for freedom and democracy. Having become immediately after August 23, 1944, a symbol of the fight against our country's turning into a communist state, then having continued from the exile the efforts for Romania's liberation, having had after 1989 a wide contribution to Romania's democratisation and its...