In communist Romania, 23 August was celebrated as a national holiday: the day when the Soviets marched into Romania and wrested it from Nazi control. (The part about the Soviets taking more than 100,000 Romanians prisoners of war was whitewashed from the history books). Communist era After 1989, stadiums, streets and other landmarks were stripped … Continuă lectura Romanian lawmaker makes case for communist-era ‘celebration’ to be reinstated – minus the Soviet propaganda. ‘The most falsified date in Romanian history’