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Ion Mihai Pacepa: 1928–2021
Highest-ranking Soviet-bloc officer ever to defect to the West has died
Commentary
In 2017, Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa the “most influential man of the 20th century and, arguably, the beginning of the 21st.”
He was the man who pulled back the curtain to reveal the disinformation that was being churned out from the Soviet bloc. Unfortunately, most people remained unfamiliar with Pacepa and his work.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, COVID-19 accomplished what a $2 million bounty and two separate teams of Romanian-sponsored assassins could not. Ion Mihai Pacepa, “Mike” to those who knew him, was called home to his eternal reward.
Flags, Symbols & Currency of Romania
Flags, Symbols & Currency of Romania
The National Flag of Romania was officially adopted on December 27, 1989.
The National Flag of Romania is a vertical tricolor and features three equal vertical bands of cobalt blue (hoist side), chrome yellow, and vermillion red. The colors are those of the principalities of Walachia (red and yellow) and Moldavia (red and blue), which united in 1862 to form Romania. The flag has a width-to-length proportion ratio of 2:3.
History of the Flag of Romania
The colors red, blue and yellow, that feature in modern Romania’s national flag were used in the flag of the revolutionaries during the Wallachian uprising of 1821. In 1848, the “Justice, Fraternity” flag of the Wallachian revolutionaries was used as the first modern tricolor flag. According to historians, the blood red color represented fraternity, the field yellow color symbolized justice and the sky-blue color was a symbol of l