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Since the end of the Great War.

CHAPTER XCII RED HOSTAGES The result of the 1924 Romanian presidential election shocked and scared the politicians of the Conservative-Liberal duopoly into a turbulent anger. April and the first two weeks of May looked like the most bizarre months in the political history of republican Romania...

I just went and fixed the broken image links in many of the very early chapters. For some reason they were working just fine in edit mode and only seemed broken on display. Anyway, I've reuploaded most of them directly into the forum, so hopefully the problem won't persist.

CHAPTER XCI REDDENED MAPS “All these damned wars never end”. It was the almost whispered conclusion of a soldier under the command of Colonel Petre Dumitrescu, main commander of the Colonial Infantry Regiment XII Carada. Romanian colonial troops had been tasked with assisting British forces in...

Thanks! I keep trying to make a schedule for writing this TL, but I can never get around to it. I do think it'll be a bit more active this year than the last at least :).

CHAPTER XC THE TOP HAT AND THE CROSS Deputy Petru Groza set off from the building of the Romanian parliament, heading towards the presidential palace up on the hill. In his hands, he held a list of the MPs of the Conservative Party, with each member marked either with a “yay” or a “nay”...

CHAPTER LXXXXIX “TEAR THEM DOWN FROM THEIR THRONES” German Chancellor Eugen von Knilling despised politics. A rather peculiar sentiment, given that he was currently the political head of the government of Germany, the strongest country in Europe and a leading politician in the Centre Party...

I wouldn't say he supports raising taxes, he just sees it as a more normal way of balancing the budget than printing money, especially since the administration is in a tight spot and needs money. That and he is not necessarily a free-marketer, which is one of the reasons he moved away from the...

CHAPTER LXXXVIII INFLATIONARY WAVES The casket that held the body of France’s embattled first communist leader was finally lowered down. The state funeral the French state had prepared for him underlined the austerity with which the new French authorities conducted themselves. The stark...

CHAPTER LXXXVII A CRIMSON END Headlines in the Romanian press all exploded on the 21st of April 1921 – all maintained a general tone of partial disbelief and genuine awe of what had happened – “Organized Crime boss Luca Ventura has been apprehended in top-secret mission by the Ionescu...

Keeping them out probably saves the central government money. Full integration into the political and constitutional structure of the country would mean the executive would have to organize elections and direct more money to local administrations. Keeping a colonial structure and a benign...

I'm glad you've been enjoying this! Haven't had much opportunity to update consistently, or even that much lately, but I'm confident there will come a time when I'll be able to return to my pre-pandemic "a chapter every two-weeks" schedule. Stay tuned! :)

CHAPTER LXXXVI A COUNTRY UPSIDE-DOWN When President Brătianu left the domain at the Hill to depart for his last address in front of Parliament, everyone believed that it was indeed the end of an era. When he assumed office, eight years before, the country was at war, had a vicious and bloody...

Yes, something similar to that politically, but with different circumstances.

CHAPTER LXXXV WILL OF OUR PEOPLES In the midst of an explosion of hurrahs and chanting of "Will of Our Peoples!" coming from the large crowd that had assembled at the place, a man carefully took down the sign bearing the name Pozsony and replaced it with another that spelled Bratislava – the...