Romania Quotes
Romania had a mediocre small arms manufactureing capability but their weapons were not in great demand by governments around the world. However, there were illegal insurgent groups in many countries who would pay hard currency for arms that would b smuggled into various countries. Governments like Romania were not supposed to sell to these groups, but Romania did.
Romanians of Jewish and German ancestry who left Romania and went to the West often sent money back to their families in Romania. So in a sense they were exports like oil which brought hard currency to Romania which needed it badly.
Russia, under the Czars, controlled Moldova and part of Romania. In those area the upper and middle class was educated in Russian schools and most became assimilated. However, the Czars saw education of the their feudal peasants as anathema (not unlike the American Slaveowners were opposed to educating slaves). As a result, the Romanian peasants never became Russified.
