ArthuriusMartyrius
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Piracy in the Black Sea is also retarded because the Black Sea, relatively speaking, is not that big that Russian pirates could avoid getting instantly ambushed by Turkish, Romanian or Bulgarian navies the moment they sail out to attack some civilian transport ships. Piracy, as a general rule, works better when you've got a big, open area to hide out in. Hence why the Golden Age of Piracy almost exclusively involved the Atlantic because it's hard as fuck to patrol.
And yeah it's about the 1877 war but Romania hadn't been under Ottoman control for years by then, that war was more about Bulgarian independence. If anything Romania actually joining in at the 11th hour tipped the battle in favor of the Russians who were having difficulties and IIRC Russia backstabbed them immediately afterwards.
I really miss the way these old historical war movies were shot. I'm not really sure what makes it so good so I just started calling it "the Waterloo effect".Old commie era Sergiu Nicolaescu movies. The regime worked so damn hard to instill a national conscience and identity, and often succeeded, with all its flaws.
Song seems/might have been written by German Saxon, Alexandru Adolf Flechtenmacher. It's quite encouraging to see that a German essentially felt so bound to Romania that he wrote patriotic, nationalist songs for it, if true.
Oh well.
PS: that movie is about the Russo-Ottoman war in 1877 or something, can't remember it very well, should rewatch.
Fun trivia is that Romania fought with Russia, and owns a great deal to Russia for that war, basically our independence from kebab. History works in these weird ways.
And yeah it's about the 1877 war but Romania hadn't been under Ottoman control for years by then, that war was more about Bulgarian independence. If anything Romania actually joining in at the 11th hour tipped the battle in favor of the Russians who were having difficulties and IIRC Russia backstabbed them immediately afterwards.