Undoubtedly, December 22nd 1989 has been one of the days I could never forget. To this day, it still stands at the crossroad of my life. Twenty years ago I was a little younger but much more restless unwilling to buy all that propaganda cooked-up by a communist regime and put in practice through a mad dictatorship. Amongst many things that have been said about the so-called Romanian Revolution one part is indisputable: it was a coup d’etat well designed by Moscow and blessed at the Malta Summit. In 1989, one country after the other – from Hungary to Bulgaria, was removing from power the leaders of the Communist Party. Romania remained the last soviet bastion in Eastern Europe where Ceausescu seemed like he had not received the Warsaw Pact memo labeled “The Communism Is Dead”. Continue reading ‘Remembering The 1989′
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