(7 May 1995) T/I: 10:03:33
King Michael of Romania, spoke out on Saturday (6/5) against the
widely-held view that his country was liberated by the Soviet Army
during World War Two.
SHOWS
LONDON, UK 6/5/95
Queen Anne, Princess Margarita and King Michael of Romania enter
British-Romanian Association reception
Master of Ceremonies announces arrival of King and Queen, guests
applaud
PAN down from ceiling to guests
Rear shot King Michael standing, as Romanian national anthem is
sung
Crowd applauding
King Michael making emotional speech (in Romanian), applause
Princess Margarita and King Michael greeting guests
Queen Anne talking to guest
Exterior Dorchester Hotel, birthplace of King Michael
ROMANIA FILE
30/8/44 -
Soviet troops entering Bucharest (MUTE)
LONDON, UK 6/5/95
King Michael SOT (in English): "That is something that burns me
up and, I think, the Romanian people, that we were liberated by
the Soviet army. It was absolutely not true because, by the time
they arrived in Bucharest, there was not a single German left
Cutaway
King Michael SOT (in Engish): "We had decided very early we have
to somehow stop all this thing and get out of the war.
So...slowly, slowly from the end of '42, '43, '44, my contacts
inside the country with the opposition parties intensified and
finally we had a group of people. We sent emmissaries to Cairo to
talk to the Allies to try and tell them we do want to get out of
the war, but the thing was how? And we need some help because we
can't do that on our own. So, everything culminated when the
Russians broke through the front in the northeast and that gave us
the only opportunity to do something on our own, without outside
help."
ROMANIA FILE
King Michael receiving victory medal (Stalin's highest World War
Two award) from Marshall Tolbuchiv after the war
LONDON, UK 6/5/95
King Michael SOT (in English): "We had no business going into
Russia. And, instead of stopping and getting back our two
provinces that were taken in 1940 ... not everyone agreed on that,
but not one step further. And then we ended up in Stalingrad..
and the result everybody knows."
Cutaway
King Michael SOT: "After all, I was born in Romania and had my
education there, did my military service in Romania and then I
have to ask for a visa to go back to my own country. I find this
going a bit far."
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA FILE
APRIL 1992
Huge crowd of supporters, PAN to King Michael on balcony during
his first visit back home since exiled in 1947
LONDON, UK 6/5/95
King Michael SOT (in English): "A good part of the Romanian people
I think are beginning now to understand and trying to find out the
truth - with a capital T if I can put it like that - because there
has not been any truth of any kind for the last 50, last 45
years."
King Michael seated in chair, reading
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