 The Soviet occupation of Romania led to a complete reorganisation of the Romanian Land Forces under the supervision of the Red Army . At the onset , pro @-@ German elements were purged from the Romanian armed forces . In 1944 – 45 , two divisions were formed out of Romanian volunteers — ex @-@ prisoners of war , trained and <unk> in the Soviet Union during the war , but also of many Communist activists . One was the Tudor <unk> First Volunteer Division , under the command of Colonel Nicolae <unk> , and the other the <unk> , <unk> <unk> <unk> Division , under the command of General <unk> <unk> ( who later served as Minister of Defence from 1946 to 1947 ) . These two units formed the nucleus of the new Romanian Land Forces under Soviet control . The postwar reorganisation of the Land Forces included cavalry but the arm disappeared from the force with the disbandment in November 1954 of the 59th Cavalry Division at Oradea . 
