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I made wallpapers of the above Romanian .PNG images for a Romanian friend at work.
Coat of Arms of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965-1989).
The oil derrick is prominent here, because Ploesti produces a lot of it. Ploesti became famous in WW2 when the facility became the main source of oil for Nazi Germany's war effort during World War II, when Romania was Germany's ally. Bad choice of friends. Thanks to its relative remoteness from airfields, Ploie?ti was spared Allied attack until 03 August 1943, when the United States Army Air Forces mounted Operation Tidal Wave from Benghazi, North Africa, bombing the refineries in a massive low altitude strike by 178 B-24 Liberator bombers. Although the raid inflicted heavy damage on the ground, much of the damage was soon fixed. In April 1944, the Allies launched decisive attacks from captured airbases in Italy. The most-bombed city in World War II, Ploie?ti, Romania, was finally captured by Soviet troops in August 1944. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploesti
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