Stéphane Courtois on the truly false revolution

In an interview with Rodica Palade, French historian Stéphane Courtois, publisher of the "Black Book of Communism," analyses the different forms of communism and its decline in Europe. "I know that many won't like me describing the Romanian revolution of 1989 as a false revolution. The truth is that there never was an authentic national uprising. But the revolution was false because the uprising was engineered by the communists, and this robbed it of its authenticity. At the time there was a group in Romania with close ties to the KGB, which had cleverly managed to wriggle its way into power. Ion Iliescu [president of Romania following Ceauescu's fall] was also a member of that group... This group was responsible for the events back then, however its objective was to bring about the downfall of Ceausescu only, not the entire system."

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