Craisorul Muntzilor, Avram Iancu part.2

Day 1,782, 06:28 Published in Hungary Hungary by mihoc

Avram Iancu-i viteaz mare
N-are în lume asemănare
În mijlocul codrului,
E faima Ardealului.

Iar copacii mari şi mici,
Se făceau oşteni voinici
Şi spre Iancu înaintau
Si din gură cuvântau:
"Să trăieşti, mărite crai!
Hai la luptă, ce mai stai!"
Iancu mândru-nainta
Şi pe toţi îi conducea
La luptă dreaptă
Pentru a opri duşmanul,
Şi a proteja măreţ...
Tot neamul.
Bălcescu and Kossuth met in May 1849, in Debrecen. The contact has for long been celebrated by Romanian Marxist historians and politicians: Karl Marx's condemnation of everything opposing Kossuth had led to any Romanian initiative being automatically considered "reactionary". In fact, it appears that the agreement was in no way a pact: Kossuth meant to flatter the Wallachians, by getting them to champion the idea of Iancu's armies leaving Transylvania for good, in order to help Bălcescu in Bucharest. While agreeing to mediate for peace, Bălcescu never presented these terms to the fighters in the Apuseni. His personal documents (commented by Liviu Maior) show that the un-realistic assumptions of Kossuth had made him view the Hungarian leader as a "demagogue".[8]
Even more contradictory, the only thing Avram Iancu agreed to (and which no party had asked for) was his forces' "neutrality" in the conflict between Russia and Hungary.[9] Thus, he secured his position as the Hungarian armies suffered defeats in July, culminating in the Battle of Segesvár, and then the capitulation of August 13