Borders for separating same people

in #ocd-resteem6 years ago

This year, my country is celebrating 100 years since it became "Romania". If you think about it, we are pretty young.

Somehow, a lot of us show this young age. My country still has a lot to learn, to build and to demonstrate. While slipping on a path of stupid nationalism, like the rest of the countries around the eastern and south-eastern border of the European Community, we can't seem to find that national spirit.

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A hundred years ago we still had borders in what is now Romania.



Passing from Bucharest (today's country capital) in order to go to Brașov (a pretty important commercial node right below the center of the country) required to go through a border. We pass by it everyday now, each and every one of us, never considering to rebuild this former stronghold in order to accomodate a little bit of history here.

No sir. Better to leave it to decay and rot while the sound of the trucks passing by fight with the sound of the eagle that was hunting my drone as I was taking some pictures.

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Right at the bottom of one of the only passes through the mountains around the area of the city of Brașov, this border crossing was one of the many others, scattered around the mountains. These were points on a border that stopped Romanians from "the Kingdom" to have access to Romanians in Transilvania. Though speaking the same language, having the same traditions, these borders existed and I suppose they should be today a reminder of the harm they were doing.

We somehow tend to forget that.



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I took the pictures in two stages. The ones with the camera were around Easter, while the weather was still bad. The other ones, up from the drone, I took a few days ago and you can see that everything around is green. The mountain seems way fuller that way.

The place is really full of trees and it's not easy to drive the drone. First of all, there was a terrible sun and I had no sun shader for the phone. I was flying only by "eye contact" and on top of that, there was this damn curious eagle checking out the drone and making some weird sounds. I decided not to take the risk and fly it higher.

Guess I'll keep inside this article the old photos. The series made with the camera. I should as I got soaked while snapping these. There was this bloody rain/snow that I thought it's gonna ruin Easter.

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I like their eerie look. The place looks a little bit "ghost town" like. With the round, fortification tower, and the place right down by the river as you exit the narrow crossing, this made the perfect place to put the customs. Back in those days, they were using the natural fortification to concentrate the enemy in case of something bad going on. Crossings in our Carpathians held the enemy at the gates multiple times.

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I guess that checking the more recent history, this place has been also some forest ranger canton. Though it looks like it's been abandoned since before I was born. It's placed in a very small mountain retreat, on this border of the two counties, where not more than 10 houses are being constantly used. The place is pretty much deserted all time round. The only thing that "crowds" the place is the fact that the 2 lane road, passing through it, brings all the truck traffic. That's the rule around these parts. We don't have a highway to cross the mountains (to our shame), so the heavy traffic deviates through this small mountain crossing.

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This could be very well a nice stop, eat and rest. A wealthy and entrepreneurial hand could easily invest in a nice restaurant, connected to the roots of the place. A restaurant with a museum, why not?

Eat while learning history.

God knows the traffic is crazy and being on a national road would mean 24-hour business. With accommodation. Anyway, this would be the first decent stop for more than 70 kilometres while coming from the South.

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The pretty thing about the place is that if you just make a turn and pass behind the first line of trees, the noise of the national road fades and serenity hits. Feels nice to just stay there for 10 minutes, enjoying a way too warm May afternoon, just listening to that eagle scarring the shit out of the pigeons around.

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Poland will celebrate its 100 years of independence (well, sort of if I'd be petty) this year as well, after being gone from the maps and annexed for 123 years. We have clear borders as well - marking the difference between West (and former Prussian part) and East (Russian) or marking existence of our country and culture on the lands that are not ours today - parts of Ukraine, Belarus. Borders more subtle, because they might not be visible with naked eye... but clearly shown in statistics on political views, culture, etc.

I feel the same about decaying monuments as well. Their beauty in decay is only a sign of a former glory, not a new, better quality. And I'd be happy to see more renovated buildings around myself, instead of new (usually soulless) architecture. Cheers!

I’m sure that Poland has issues in respecting part of its monuments as well. Still... I’ve been to Krakow 2 years ago and I have to say I was impressed by the level of reconstruction of the city.
I guess more or less all of the countries around the eastern border had some weird pieces of history regarding the provinces where people of the same language lived. The sad thing is that after a lot of us awaken around 1850-1900, 50 years later Stalin fucked all of us around this border. Cheers to you too man! Thank you for reading.

You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:

We pass by it everyday now, each and every one of us, never considering to rebuild this former stronghold in order to accomodate a little bit of history here.
It should be accommodate instead of accomodate.

I am not sure why, but I feel that is better for all of these places to stay like they are now. At least until we get a hang on our country for real. The last thing I want to hear of, is that some socialist entrepreneurial hand get laid on it. Another great article from which I learned yet another important piece of history. Thanks for that :).

Yeah, I know what you are saying. Getting on the hands of some wrong people would be a last drop in the glass. It’s still incredible how in 28 years we were not able to get rid of them...

Is like trying to get rid of 90% of population. In 50 years of communism, only pusies got to lay eggs. The others died in prison or worse. It takes some time for the genetic pool to get back on track ;).

Incerc sa ma detasez emotional de chestii de genu si sa privesc totul dintr-o perspectiva istorica. In felul asta nu mi se strica feng-shui-ul :)

O-i încerca tu frățic dar dacă închidem ochii total nu înseamnă că monștri vor dispărea de sub pat ✌️

Si daca ne facem destul de multi nervi incat ne luam si ne ducem pe alte meleaguri, unde o sa dispara monstrii? :) Daca m-as enerva de fiecare data cand as vedea un parau plin de pet-uri si gunoaie sau cand as vedea cate o groapa de gunoi pe marginea drumului, nu as mai iesi din casa.
Daca intr-un viitor indepartat vom trai din crypto cu munca minima o sa avem mai mult timp de activism social si educarea populatiei :)

Stiu ce zici dar nici nu mă mai enervez când văd ce zici tu. Încerc să găsesc soluții, măcar teoretice, în mintea mea... și nu găsesc.

Soluții sunt oricând 😁. Oameni care sa le pună în aplicare mai puțin. Hai sa arunc cu ceva idei așa de moment.

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