Romanian Legionary State

Flag of the Legionary State

The **Legionary State of Romania** or simply the **Legionary State** is a country in Eastern Europe. Its government is notably oppressive and has an authoritarian nature, even infamous among the rank of the Eurasian Treaty.

## History

### 4th Balkan War

The Romanian Kingdom entered a pact with Serbia and Greece with the goal to reclaim ethnic Romanian lands and right our wrongs of the First Great War. The 4th Balkan War ended in a defeat of all three Belgrade Pact states following the entry of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the tenacious defence of the Bulgarian. The defeat created massive political setbacks in Romania and Greece.

### Romanian Civil War

The tension between the weakened monarchy and the Iron Guard have been boiling intensely since the day they took power, but the defeat in war opened an opportunity for Carol II to seize back power, a plot was envisioned by royalists. This began on July 25th, the annual meeting between the Captain and the Government at the time still shared between Legionary and right-wing conservatives. An order of arrest and dismissal by charges of treason and incompetence under the name of the King and the Parliament of Romania was announced, the Captain refused this and when they tried to arrest him, a battle occurred in the building between guards loyal to the royalists and legionary militias. Several members of the Government were killed, as well as Horia Sima, a high-ranking member of the Captain's entourage. However, Cornelius escaped the gunfight unharmed and rallied his supporters in both the army and the Legionary militias. Failed to overthrow the Guard swiftly, with the situation deteriorating, Caroll II returned to Bucharest to lead the current civil war situation in Romania, his government quickly accepted the peace treaty to ends the 4th Balkan War. However, this was a turning point in the Civil War as the agreement reached with Austria left Romania with a large military lost with zero gains left many royalist military commanders to turn to oppose to the King's coup which many now started to perceive as betraying the country and declared their neutrality in the conflict. Cornelius forces took back Bucharest 3 months after he fled it after several weeks of remnant fighting. Caroll II left Romania for Germany. While this is considered the end of the Romanian Civil War, a period of political violence occurred from September 1940 to 1941 known as the Lampost War, beginning with the hanging of 3 royalists prisoners on lamposts outside the palace. The Iron Guard abolished the monarchy in that year for charges of treason against the Romanian people and proclaimed the Legionary State. Many more royalists were hanged over this period on lamposts by Legionary militias as well as retaliating assassinations by royalist activists. By 1941, with the entry of Russia into the great war, Serbia and Romania violated the treaty of St.German with the hope of taking the Austrian by surprised and resumed fighting. After the entry of Russia into Ukrainian in November that year, they entered the Eastern Coalition with Russia to defeat the Austro-Hungarian and retake ethnic Romanian land.

## The Jewish Deportation

Althought anti-semite policies have been put into practice in Romania during the interwar, denying a majority of Romanian jews political and most economic rights as well as violent attacks on the jewish communities of Regat. Regardless, these policies truly reached its climax after the brief Romanian Civil War in 1940, that saw the Iron Guard totally eliminated all oppositions to become the only power in Romania. Enraged by the Jewish communites plead of support to the royalist cause and the fact that Carol II did the same to gain international sympathisers like his German and Austrian benefactors. Progroms and violent killings occured during the civil war and the Lampost War across Regat. Thousands killed in the Bucharest Ghetto, although these violences eventually settle down as the violence disrupted Romanian economic activities and disintegrated its middle class population, Teutonphobia also made German capitals invested in the country during the interwar vanished and those are the problems that could not be sustainable in the coming war if Romania is to participate. Thus the matter of the Jewry is is restricted to interment in the ghettos. Ivan Illyn distrusting the Romanian and the the low-born anti-semite politics of the Guard rabble rousers, assigned some Russian troops to "join the defense of Romanian cities" but in reality to keep check of the Jewish population and maintaining law and order against radical Guardist activists, atlhought many occurances of Russian neglected their duties or even participated, regardless the presence of the Russian maintained at least not another major progrom occured during the period of 1941-1946.

As promised by pre-war agreements with the Guardist state, the territory of Bukonovia, Transylvania and Bessarabia was gifted to the Romanian for their war effort. This immidietly prompted strong resistance among the Russian jewry fearing the Guardist terror but also the Ukrainian and the local Russians as well as other minority fearing the Romanianist policy. However, its a territory that Romania have won in combat and the Vozhd found its tied to obligate the Romanian war goals. Regardless, as Russian troops vacant the cities and peace turned to Romania, the anti-semite policies began to intensify to its peak, with the new order to deport the jews of Regat and the Hungarian Jews of Transylvania to Bessarabia and Buknovia for internment camps in Secureni, Edineti, Marculesti, Vertujeni preparing for deportation to Turkey, and Poland. Brutal deaths followed the "death trains" leaving for Bessarabia as the Guardist soldiers neglect the detainees and orchestrated killings at several stops, thousands dead before they could reach the camps. The camps itself lacks proper housing faciliies and the living conditions were abysmal, leading to even more deaths. Meanwhile the spontanous progroms and killings on the Bessarabian jews across the cities and countryside lead to a wave of refugees fleeing for the Russian Malorossiya territory, threatening to destabilise the entire region, already a hot bed of peasant conflicts with the promised settlements for Russian farmers clashed with Ukrainian ones. A direct anti-semite state right across the border also created a dilemma and guarantee a failure of the Racial Reconcilation policy of Minister Ivan Illyn as it presence that the Russian jewry could never accept or reasonable be accepted into a greater Russian people if the killing of jews is tolerated right across its border.

### The Cigarette Plot

With the victory certain of the Eastern Coalition in the war against Austro-Hungary, the post-war division became a problem for the Russian leadership, as it perceived both their allies in the regions as extremely revanchist and could threaten the stability of the alliance in face of the unified socialist bloc. By 1946, talks have broken down regarding the division of the Banat with the Romanian Army refusing to withdraw from majority Serb lands. With the threat of war mounting, the Kremlin drafted a plan to eliminate the now-burden Cordenius, whose experience in the civil war has led to a brutal uncompromising regime in Romania that is too unpredictable and dangerous within the alliance. The train carrying the Captain backs to Bucharest from Timoresa derailed and killed him in a mysterious incident, a package of Russian cigarette was found in the conducting cabin gave its name to the theory among many Cordnist as a Russian plot to bring about the religious-populist faction led by Ion Mota to power. The new government under Russian pressure immediately issued the restoration of laws and orders across Romania, ceasing any and all spontanous acts of violence against the Romanian jewry, and Romanian troops were posted on the border to stop the refugees to enter Russia. The new state policy switched to encouragement of voluntarily immigration on theory, althought the deportation to Bessarabia still countinue abeit in a more humane fashion so that it no longer would generate shocking headlines and international protests from both East and West. The government of Ion Mota is at the moment trying to work out the details policy with its neightbouring states, something rather went sour after the horrifying last years of the Captain's reign, the migiration of nearly 300,000 Saxons, the current conflict over the Banat and reports of killings of Serbs.

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