yes.
2000 years ago this land used to be called Dacia. then the Roman Empire conquered us and we dacians and romans mixed and formed the romanian people and the romanian language. Romania was then split in 3 small countries: Transilvania, Moldova, Tara Romaneasca. we had 3 big powerful bitches who didn't let us unite untill 1918: austro-hungarian empire who was trying to get Transilvania, russian empire who was trying to get Moldova, otoman empire who was trying to get Tara Romaneasca. we fucking survived all the shit these empires put us through (we fought many wars, we paid a lot of tribute and gold and grains and stuff to them).
In 1918 we finally made it. we united into Romania. and stayed like that.
that's basically all. we're latin and shit. romanian language is even close to italian and spanish.
we have never been part of USSR. we have always been communist Romania.
though i have seen some very cute russians in the festival a couple of weeks ago