Time that was wasted: Romania and Lithuania after peace treaties and until Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (1918-1939)
ENExtremely limited observations used by Romanian diplomacy each time relations with Lithuania were considered, were due to the absence of first‐hand information, to lack of imagination in the configuration of normal political and diplomatic relations, to full dominance of Polish diplomacy with regard to Romanian interests in Northern and North‐Eastern Europe and, not the least, to the comfortable feeling of doing nothing. Bucharest preferred to consider the Baltic region as insignificant as interest and direction of action and consequently it canceled any own strategies, objectives and means. It was only during the late 1930s – when it had become increasingly clear that deep connections exist, due to positioning on the same geopolitical area disputed by Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union – when pale efforts for mutual collaboration and support were started. Any hope was brutally destroyed in June 1940, when Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, Northern Bucovina and Herza region were annexed to USSR. [Extract, p. 129]
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