But I doubt that the Romanian citizenry were armed.
Actually, think more of the last year and a half of the Second World War, and the German army and people under a ‘losing it’ path. Narcissist. Hitler’s decline was sped up by the abuse of amphetamine, but you get the picture, the Narcissist is never at fault, it is always someone else’s failure which thwarts the grandiose schemes, so the ‘others’ must be punished for failing to carry out the perfect directions and will of the empowered Narcissist.