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nino	Posted: March 23, 2004 06:27 am
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 6 Member No.: 192 Joined: January 13, 2004	Hi, Victor, thanks for the info. And for other guys, thanks to share your view Regards, Nino

Victor	Posted: March 24, 2004 05:25 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	In Budapest, the Romanian 7th Corps attacked on the Kerepes-Rackoczy boulevards. The 2nd Infantry Division attacked north of the Kerepes street. On 7 January it had captured the Central Post and continued to advance and on 13 or 14 January it had taken hold of the theatre on Arena street. In the center was the 19th Infantry Division which attacked along the Kerepes boulevard. By 10 January it managed to take the factories north of the Hipodrome and on 14 January it captured the Eastern Railway station. Finally, south of Kerepes street was the 9th Cavalry Division. It fought some of the most terrible fights inside the Hipodrome (taken by 7 January), the Franz Josef barracks (taken on 10-11 January), the Kerepes Cemetery and the Horse Market.

Korne	Posted: May 02, 2004 09:58 am
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 31 Member No.: 28 Joined: July 06, 2003	Are there now any documents available from the Soviet archives regarding the reasons for pulling the Romanian 7th Corps out of Budapest and redeploying it in Slovakia?

Carol I	Posted: May 05, 2004 11:26 pm
General de armata Group: Members Posts: 2250 Member No.: 136 Joined: November 06, 2003	I have seen one article mentioning that the official reason for pulling the Romanian troops out of Budapest one month before its fall was the fact that they sparked fiercer resistance from the Hungarian troops they encountered. Given the Hungarian-Romanian animosity, the reason seems plausible.

Matt820	Posted: September 12, 2004 04:39 am
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 6 Member No.: 341 Joined: September 12, 2004	The Romanians never got along with the Germans and Hungarians. At the Battle of Stalingrad there were accounts of Romanians fist-fighting with Germans. A Romanian actually killed a German high-ranking officer after he shot two of his comrades. The Romanian/Hungarian hatred of each other started a long time before WWII. The Romanian and Hungarians had been fighting over Transylvania for centuries. The piece of land changed hands throughout history. The fight for Transylvania continues to this day (politically not militarily or course). By the end of the war the Romanians and Germans were in the same predicamend as the Prussians and Saxons in WWI. Their leaders forced them to be allies, but they ratther fight each other than the enemy.

Carol I

Posted: June 19, 2005 05:47 pm

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By January 14, Hungarian infantry and assault guns were locked in mortal combat for the Eastern Railway Station with most of General Nicholae Sova's Seventh Romanian Rifle Corps. Whereas in most instances Hungarian units had fought halfheartedly during the Battle of Budapest, here -- faced with their Romanian arch-nemesis -- they fought savagely.

The fighting traveled from track to track, through the rolling stock, and into the station. By January 16, the outnumbered defenders were bludgeoned in close-quarter fighting amid the rubble of the shattered station, and the exhausted attackers stood close to the Elizabeth Ring Road, a short distance from the Danube. Sova's corps, already having suffered eleven thousand casualties out of its thirty-six-thousand-man force, was pulled out by Malinovsky, who was incensed by the Romanian tendency to whip up frenzied resistance among previously demoralized Hungarian troops.

Source: The Siege of Budapest

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