„This book was born out of
necessity. The necessity to bring to the world’s knowledge a repressive regime
which turned terror, fear, lying, informing and duplicity into a system of
governance. True, this system existed in other countries, as well! Romania,
however, had its particularities: the intensity and the forms the terror took
in the beginning of the regime, as well as the upheaval it caused in the
society. Later on: the nationalization of Communism in the ’70s and ’80s, which
added the symbols of the Fascist-leaning right from interwar period to the
egalitarian Marxist rhetoric, and which replaced persecution with an Orwellian
atmosphere.
This book gives an account of the scale of this repression,
of its steps and its consequences. Without delving into details, it outlines
the picture of an overwhelmed, terrorized, de-structured Romania whose
consequences we see to this day, 25 years after the fall of Communism.
We cannot understand today’s Romania without knowing its
Communist past and questioning the memory of said regime. How do Romanians
remember Communism? – that is the ultimate question of this book. Without
aiming to offer a definitive answer, it pleads for a plurality of memories, for
the remembrance of the victims of Communism, as well as of the negative
consequences of any repressive regime.”
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