February 1917. News of the revolution came from St. Petersburg and Moscow to the distant Romanian front. A new time has come for the soldiers - meetings, rallies, and elections to the Soviets. There was still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding among them, the proletarian stratum was weak, which allowed the sweet-talking Social Revolutionaries to get a majority in the elected bodies, but one thing became clear immediately: the army did not want to fight. One of the local "persuaders" sent to the unit before the June offensive, doctor Landa, wrote that at the headquarters where he was, he was advised to prepare for trouble: "Write a spiritual will in advance. At best, you are being bought out." The members of the various committees in which the compromisers sat, who trumpeted the war to a victorious end, were no longer believed by the comfrey workers .1 The peculiarity of the situation was that the front with the adjacent strip, where many Russian soldiers were concentrated, passed through a foreign country-Romania. On the head of the Romanian rulers, a disaster unexpectedly fell-a foreign army of millions, which came into a state of revolutionary ferment. The Romanian King Ferdinand, having learned about the overthrow of his Russian brother, wept. The government, secretly hoping for a counter-revolutionary coup in Russia, delayed information about Petrograd for six days . But, of course, it could not silence the revolution. In angry impotence, the Romanian reaction watched how the process of revolutionizing the Russian army was going on in the land where yesterday Siguranza (the Romanian Okhrana) stopped the slightest protest, and how it affected the city, village, and Romanian troops. She was wary of "taking measures" that were common at other times, that is, resorting to reprisals. Romania's own armed forces were still recovering from the terrible losses suffered in the 1916 campaign. Therefore, the Romanian oligarchy took a position of waiting and maneuve ... Читать далее