„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.