Nicolae Ciuca announced that he will start the steps for the celebration of May 8 as the official day of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, a day that has been celebrated in other European countries for several decades.
The defeat of Nazi Germany, which would officially capitulate to the Western liberating forces, on May 8, 1945, meant for Europe the fall of a totalitarian, criminal, extremist regime, which brought our entire continent to the brink of disaster.
The end of the war left Romania dismembered, following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, and held captive by the Soviet Union, in the communist bloc, following the Yalta agreement.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the historical opportunity for Romanians to freely choose their fate and to return, after 45 years of communist totalitarianism, to the motherland of Western development, where their historical vocation has always been found.
In order to render the true symbolism of the capitulation of Nazi Germany, I will initiate the steps to recognize May 8 as the official date of the celebration in Romania as well, together with our trans-Atlantic partners.
The transformation of the date of May 9 into a propagandistic occasion to support the Russian military aggression in Ukraine and the perversion of the historical truth by claiming victory in the Second World War, as the only protagonist determines the remembrance of the great moments of the war, such as the Normandy landings, the liberation of Paris, Madrid and Rome, Athens and much of Germany, a joint effort of American, British and French allied troops alongside national resistances. Thus, we pay tribute to all Romanians who fought for the liberation of the country and Eastern Europe from the Nazi yoke.
