| Abstrakt: |
The study focuses on a comaprison of how the Occupation of Paris, in June 1940, and the Liberation of the same city, in August 1944, were seen by the Romanian society. However, one must take into accont that these events, which were overshadowed by the domestic policy -- the first one taking place only a week before the military occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union, while the latter happening basicaly in the same time as the coup of 23 August, 1944, when the military dictatorship of Marshall Ion Antonescu fall from power and Romania changed sides from the Axis to the United Nations. However, it should be noted that the two events did not have nearly the same impact on Romanian public opinion. The Second World War, which was entering new phases in the early summer of 1940 and towards the end of 1944, respectively, acted as a screen on world news, sometimes inadvertently focusing attention on events local, not only because the circulation of information had become more difficult, but also because the catastrophes were multiplying, and the closer ones were more relevant than the ones in the distance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
