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NEWS: ONCE AGAIN, WE WERE RIGHT! THE BREAKUP OF TRANSYLVANIA IS IMMINENT! LAST YEAR, SENATOR DIANA IOVANOVICI-ŞOŞOACĂ STOPPED AN ENTIRE PARLIAMENT FROM BETAYAL! AAAAA, DID YOU FORGET!?
GET READY TO DIE FOR TRANSYLVANIA! CROSS THE CARPATHIANS, ROMANIAN BATTALIONS!
Negotiations regarding the spheres of influence are over. Yes, we fell into the sphere of influence of the United States of America, with Russia’s consent. You don't really understand, do you? You will understand in the coming months, when you see the side Russia is taking, and the side America is taking. It is not for nothing that we have three NATO and American military bases in Romania, which will never be taken from Romanian soil. December 8 is no longer Romanian Constitution Day, but the day when Romania ceased to exist as a unitary, sovereign, independent and indivisible national state. From this moment on, Romania will experience territorial disintegration. Of course, no one will partition it, but you will see, in accordance to the law, how the territory of Romania will be divided.
NARRATIVE: With the complicity of Western powers, Transylvania will declare its independence from Romania, taking advantage of the political crisis the country is going through.
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The proclamation of Transylvania's independence from Romania is a narrative that has been circulating in the local information space in Romania since the 1990s, being periodically “rehashed” by Hungarian revisionists who aspire to restore Greater Hungary, but also by Romanians in Transylvania, who promote an illusory “civilizational superiority" of Transylvanians over the rest of the country. More often than not, however, the narrative is promoted from the ultranationalist sovereigntist spectrum, which thus tries to boost its approval rating, “waving” the threat of the partition of the homeland, at the behest of the Western powers that colonized Romania.
Last year, the extremist politician Diana Şoşoacă brought the narrative back into the limelight, through a dazzling speech whereby she warned of the threat of Hungary annexing Transylvania, with the West's blessing. Paradoxically, in the same speech, the Romanian politician stated that, under the pretense of regionalization, the British King Charles III would also be proclaimed King of Transylvania (!!!), which would thus become an independent state.
In fact, the proclamation of independence that Şoşoacă warns about is nothing more than a post on Facebook by a Romanian citizen living in Denmark, where he founded an association called “Independence of Transylvania”. Despite the revisionist message against Romania, the association is therefore a foreign entity, with Danish legal status, and which does not carry out its activity on Romanian territory, which could make it liable to investigation by the Romanian relevant authorities. The association’s bank accounts are also opened in banks in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Canada, so they cannot be verified by the authorities in our country. Moreover, after doing some minimum research, the “Transylvanian sovereigntist” approach seems to be just a pretext for promoting several narratives of Russian origin, such as the one that claims that Romania will enter war in Ukraine against Russia, but also those that glorify Russian-Romanian relations, especially the help provided by the Tsarist army in the First World War, without mentioning the chaos that the Russians left in their wake, after the outbreak of the Bolshevik revolution. Ironically, the end of the story proclaims that “without the Russians, the history of Romania would have been very different”.
As for the narrative about the disappearance of Romania as a national state, we are again dealing with the overly rich imagination of Diana Şoşoacă, who does not provide any source (albeit fictitious) to support her statements, just as she does every time she promotes information of this kind. In fact, the presence of the military bases that Diana Şoşoacă complains about and Romania being part of NATO, considered to be the most powerful military alliance in the world, are the only guarantees with regard to Romania's security and territorial integrity. However, we cannot help but notice the contradiction of the defender of the nation, who announces that Romania’s territory will be partitioned, although it will not be torn apart, merely divided.
BACKGROUND: The Romanian-Hungarian debate concerning the territorial affiliation of Transylvania (a former autonomous region of the Habsburg Empire) is, from a historical point of view, a recent one, dating back to the mid-19th century, with the emergence of nation states all over Europe. Both sides claimed Transylvania, some with political arguments (Transylvania had been part of the medieval kingdom of Hungary), others invoking demographic arguments, pointing to the majority population of the territory. By and large, the conflict was a “frozen” one, interrupted only by three violent disputes: the armed conflict of 1848-1849, when the Hungarians wanted to proclaim the independence of Hungary (including the territory of Transylvania), and the Romanians in Transylvania supported the Habsburg regime in Vienna; the battles between Romania and Austria-Hungary in the World War I, followed by the Romanian intervention against the Bolshevik regime in Budapest in 1919; and finally, the Romanian offensive, after the uprising of August 23, 1944, alongside Soviet troops against the Horthy occupation of northwestern Transylvania. After both Romania and Hungary were forcefully included in the communist camp at the end of World War II, and with the introduction of the principle of border integrality of European states, the conflict between the two countries came to an end. After the fall of communism, several politicians and representatives of civil society, both Romanian and Hungarian, brought the subject back into the spotlight, in order to boost their electoral standing. For this reason, several controversial incidents occurred, such as the tragic interethnic violence in Târgu-Mureș, in March 1990, or the more recent conflict that erupted in the scandal of the heroes' cemetery in Uz Valley.
Şoşoacă often refers to the narrative about a possible partition of Romania, as a result of the war in Ukraine, which is in fact a variation of one of Moscow's favorite themes, when trying to justify aggression against Ukraine. With the scandal triggered by her banned presidential candidacy and the annulment of the first round of the presidential election by the Romanian Constitutional Court, the MEP raised the stakes even further, invoking the “real” threats on Romania's borders, namely Hungary and its territorial claims over Transylvania, a much more sensitive subject that resonates with the mindset of Romanian nationalists, than other historical regions such as Bessarabia or Northern Bukovina.
PURPOSE: To undermine societal trust in the authorities, to promote sovereigntist and equally anti-Western discourse, to legitimize previously promoted extremist and ultra-nationalist views, to stir and amplify social unrest.
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