| A MOMENT OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN THE | | | | the contrary the domination of various empires over |
| ROMANIAN HOMELAND'S HISTORY. | | | | the Romanian territories was an expansionist policy, a |
| Alba Iulia Municipality is one the symbols of the | | | | policy of conquest? History itself confirmed the |
| Romanian people's millinery existence, which evokes | | | | correctness and objective necessity of the act carried |
| the tormented history of our people, characterized by | | | | through by Michael the Brave, by the subsequent |
| the ceaseless wish to keep pace with the | | | | attainment of his ideal - the ideal of all the Romanians - |
| development of the civilization, to contribute both to the | | | | by the accomplishment of the Unitary National |
| building of an ever better and more dignified life on the | | | | Romanian State in the modern epoch. That is why, |
| homeland's soil, and to the development of civilization | | | | Michael the Brave remains a brilliant, progressive figure |
| and progress of the whole mankind. | | | | in the golden book of the Romanian people. |
| The age-old Dacian fortress, which existed on these | | | | And also in order to observe the historic truth and the |
| lands more than 2000 years ago and which became a | | | | national and social realities on these lands, we must |
| Roman municipium, powerfully confirm, just as many | | | | say that starting the 9Th and 10Th centuries, and even |
| other localities and vestiges of the past, the strong | | | | later, populations of other nationalities also settled in |
| civilization which blossomed in Dacia, then in Roman | | | | Transylvania: Magyars, Szecklers, Germans, Saxons, |
| Dacia and which perpetuated and developed along the | | | | Swabians, and later on others. What must also be said |
| centuries in close connection with the general progress | | | | emphatically as an incontestable historic truth is that |
| of I he whole civilization on our European continent. | | | | these populations together) with the Romanian native |
| It is true that along the centuries through these parts, | | | | population fought side by side to defend their |
| as well as on the territory of other European many | | | | freedoms against feudal oppression, against foreign |
| migratory peoples have passed, which were usually | | | | invaders, for independence, for a free life. |
| carriers of less developed civilizations. These made | | | | I do not want to speak about the battles of Michael |
| that, for a certain period, the development of the | | | | the Brave. These battles, as well as other moments |
| productive forces be stopped. But all this could not | | | | from his life on these lands are magnificently illustrated |
| annihilate the deep roots of civilization formed in the | | | | in the museum we had visited some time earlier. But |
| past, could not deviate the inhabitants of these parts | | | | what I should like to mention is that in all these fights |
| from uniting their ranks in order to build their own and | | | | ward by Michael the Brave against the foreign |
| free, destiny, in close cooperation with other peoples, a | | | | invaders, the union of the Romanian principalities which |
| destiny which speaks about the traditions, about | | | | he achieved for a short period, the co inhabiting |
| everything which characterized even 2000 years ago | | | | nationalities too fought shoulder to shoulder with the |
| the inhabitants of these parts, about their | | | | Romanians. It is known the fact that the Swabians |
| industriousness and kindness. This is just what | | | | actively participated in many fights waged by Michael |
| characterizes socialism which we are building, and | | | | the Brave, also in the Neajlov battle, and that from |
| which is devoted to man, to his happiness and welfare. | | | | Selimbar,in the same manner in which they went |
| It is based on everything our people had created best, | | | | alongside with Michael the Brave in the struggle for the |
| being a continuation of the traditions kept in our | | | | union of all Romanian Principalities - of Transylvania, |
| people's veins. | | | | Wallachia and Moldavia. Moreover it is a well-known |
| This is why in Transylvania, as in the whole country, | | | | historic truth that the Szecklers fought side by side |
| there developed along the centuries, in difficult historical | | | | with Stephen the Great, Petru Rares, with other rulers |
| conditions, states and voivodships, in which different | | | | of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia, the same as |
| territories of our homeland's present-day territory | | | | side by side with Romanians and Saxons were |
| united in formations which opened the path toward the | | | | inhabitants of other nationalities. But why did all this |
| unification of all of them in a unitary state. Known are | | | | happen? Does this fact not demonstrate the truth that |
| the voivodeship of Menumorut in the North of the | | | | the fight against the foreign invaders, for the union of |
| Carpathians, the voivodeships of Glad and Gelu in the | | | | the Romanian principalities, for the formation of a |
| Transylvanian Tableland, those of Seneslau, Litovoi, | | | | strong centralized state which was to secure living |
| loan, Farcas, Dobrotici on the territory of Oltenia, | | | | conditions, conditions for the development of the |
| Wallachia and Dobrogea, as well as the state | | | | forces of production, of welfare and happiness was |
| formations of Bolohoveni in North Moldavia, of | | | | an historic reality? This was indeed a law like demand, |
| Barladeni and others. On this basis there were created | | | | an aspiration of all the inhabitants of these parts, |
| the big centralized feudal states which opened the | | | | regardless of nationality. |
| path toward the development of the productive | | | | This solidarity and joint struggle strongly manifested |
| forces, ensured the preservation of our customs, | | | | also in the peasant risings from Bobilna, in the peasant |
| traditions and language and setting out from the joint | | | | war of 1514 led by Gheorghe Doja, and also later in the |
| economic interests and also from the community of | | | | great rising led by Horea, Closca and Crisan, and |
| territory formed the Romanian people, and later the | | | | others. |
| Romanian nation and the unitary national state. | | | | We celebrate a moment of crucial importance in the |
| It is true that this way, along the centuries, was not | | | | history of our homeland. It is true, the historic |
| easy. Many fights had to be waged and many | | | | circumstances - and particularly the position of the |
| sacrifices were made; but what has always been | | | | foreign empires of the time, that did not look at all |
| characteristic for the Romanians' life and fights during | | | | favourably on the formation of national states - led to |
| this long period were the close and constant links | | | | the disappearance of the single centralized state |
| between the voivodeships on this territory and then | | | | through the dastardly assassination of Michael the |
| between Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania and | | | | Brave. But the idea of the union of the Romanian |
| Dobrogea. | | | | Principalities, the idea of making up a strong state on |
| We must firmly say that the preservation of the links | | | | the soil of Dacia could not be killed and can never be |
| and common elements could not have been possible | | | | killed because this idea was deeply implanted in the |
| without close links from all points of view, between all | | | | veins, in the consciousness and spirit of our whole |
| these territories, between the population that inhabited | | | | people. |
| them for millennium on end. It is well that we say this | | | | Centuries have passed and deep transformations |
| now, so that heed be taken also by certain historians | | | | occurred in the life of the inhabitants of our country. |
| who extol imperialist domination, the invasion of | | | | Today, under the leadership of the Romanian |
| peoples and who try to insult the Romanian nation. In | | | | Communism I Party - the most devoted representative |
| spite of the evident historic and national realities, such | | | | of the interest.; of the whole nation, of the wish of |
| historians assert that by the union of the three | | | | welfare, happiness: liberty and independence of our |
| Romanian principalities - of Transylvania, Wallachia and | | | | people, of all working people, disregarding of nationality |
| Moldavia - Michael the Brave would have promoted a | | | | - a new socialist flourishes on Romania's soil. This |
| policy of conquest. Does this mean that the completion | | | | ensures to our nation conditions for a more and more |
| of the union for the first time of all the Romanian | | | | rich life, ensures the true liberty, independence and |
| principalities into a single state - an objective law-like | | | | sovereignty of the homeland! |
| necessity of history - was a policy of conquest? Or on | | | | |