 Complete the following phrase:  Facing the threats of Russian Civil War expansion into the Republic and communization in his own ranks, Pântea became a major contributor to the accelerated political process of union with Romania. In January 1918, he welcomed the Romanian Land Forces and General Ernest Broșteanu, who had a mandate to reinstate order, and who arrived in Chișinău alongside the French military envoy Henri Mathias Berthelot. There followed a common offensive against the Bolshevik insurgents, part of the larger 