A Short History of Romanian Patriotism

Romania, Wealthiest Country in Europe: A History of the Getan People from Ancient Dacia to the Present by Ovidiu Danteș

Long before Rome turned its legions toward the Carpathians, a people called the Getae inhabited the land between the Danube and the Black Sea. They built cities, practiced a monotheistic religion, spread the symbol of the Cross across the ancient world, and gave humanity numerals that schoolbooks still wrongly attribute to others. Their descendants, the Romanians, occupy that same land today—and according to geologist, historian, and writer Ovidiu Danteș, they remain as dispossessed in the twenty-first century as they were under every empire that preceded it.

This extraordinary work traces the unbroken thread of Geto-Romanian civilization across twelve thousand years, from the primordial settlements of the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic space through the reign of Michael the Brave, the forging of Greater Romania at Alba Iulia in 1918, and the turbulent thirty-five years of post-communist political life that Danteș witnessed and shaped from within. As a founding member of the Party of Romanian National Unity, a senior figure alongside Corneliu Vadim Tudor in the Party Greater Romania, and co-founder of the Party Our Romania with Dr. Gheorghe Funar, Danteș writes with the authority of a man who spent decades in the underground mines of Bukovina and an equal number of decades in the corridors of nationalist politics.

At its heart this book asks one question: why does the wealthiest country in the European Union by mineral resources remain among its poorest by every measure of human well-being? The answer Danteș provides is geological, historical, political, and deeply personal. Romania holds first place in Europe in gold, silver, copper, uranium, natural gas, rare earth elements, and critical minerals essential to every green technology the twenty-first century demands. That wealth has been privatized, exported, and abandoned. This book is both the indictment and the blueprint for reclaiming it.

Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand Romania, Eastern Europe, and the long memory of a people who have never stopped being who they are.