Wondering about..., Some thoughts about Romanian airforce

Hello to all You forum members and visitors. I am from Finland and new to this forum but I have visited here many times before. I finally registered because I am really interested of ARR in WW II. When I have read topics in this forum some questions have come very important to me : How it is possible that the official name of nations airforce in WW II is unclear ? And also so many unknown pilots, missions, etc, etc ? Now, I know that Romania was under communist control over fifty years but still it does not explain that all. Here in Finland we know every detail of our airforces history in WW II. We know pilots, missions, losses, almost everything. Also, we have thousands of good quality photographs. Is it just that Romanians did not feel important to save these things to coming generations or have time simply done it´s job by fading memories ? I hope to get some kind of answer. And please remember, this is not a attack against anyone here, I am big admirer of ARR and more I read more I like and more I want to know. I just made an order of models to get more ARR planes to my shelf.. So, God bless my friends. Juha, Finland.

JUha,
I'll give you an simple example.
Having a photo with a person in german uniform could mean;
1.Jail.
2. Hard labour.
3.Jobless.
4.Many other "things".
That's why many photos,jurnals and so on,are no longer existing.
Only the fact that you "foght against our great naigbour and friend from the east",could be more troble then you'd ever imagine.

Hello C-2 and thanks for an answer. Yes, You probably are right. I know that communist terror was something real bad. We here in Finland are much luckier because we were never occupied by Russians and we have had an opportunity to save our history and keep it that way.

Hello Juha,

Another important fact is that history was written in a "communist" way-- plenty difformations, lies, illusions etc. We (Romanians and i suppose other countries in the communist block) didn't have the possibility to know what really happened in ww2. Those who made it, most of them, suffered enough in jails, working camps or were forced to keep silence about what they done on the eastern and even western fronts. The young generation after 48, learned in school a really "bad" history, that after the '60 became more and more a "nationalistic" history. Even today, in schools, history still keeps some of the "communist" methods. Still have work to do. But step by step, maybe one day, we will reach an "objective" history (in french-- une vision objective de l'histoire).

BM

OFF TOPIC...

... and just a small personal addition to what C 2 have already said: during the first half of 1940, the (then) king Carol II made a tour throughout the country, in order to reassure the population that Romania will resist to any pressure for territorial cessation (!). During his tour, while in a small town in NW Romania, he had a few photos taken with my father’s (then a few years old) family. In one of them my old man, who by that time was barely starting to walk, was holding the king by the hand. After the 1940 Vienna dictate, when the area was occupied by Hungary, my grandmother had to hide them, but after 1947 (the installation of the “Popular Republic”) she decided that hiding wasn’t enough and destroyed the photos. She said she could not take the chance to jeopardize in any way the future of my father, who had obviously been (in 1940) a two-years-old fervent supporter of the decadent bourgeois regime... or rather dependent by the support offered by the regime impersonated.

This short story might seem funny at the first glance, but I don’t think it really was.