Vlad Stoicescu on the silence surrounding the Romanian revolution

Yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary of the first rebellion against the Ceauşescu regime in the city of Timişoara, which was then followed by many more. More than one thousand people were killed when the Ceauşescu dictatorship fell, but to this day the events have not been properly clarified. Vlad Stoicescu expresses his disappointment in the daily Evinimentul Zilei: "The current celebrations are nothing but a facade. Today, as always, such half-hearted festivities will swallow up the truncated memories of this revolution which we view with extreme emotion and extreme resignation. Because in the past two decades nothing fundamental has changed, although we should by now have banished the demons and communist reflexes. Society today is as forgetful as it has always been, we live in the same body politic eaten away by dictatorship, we suffer from the same terrible ignorance. ... The heroes of 1989 need no wreaths or candles. Their families will take care of that, because pain doesn't go away because of press freedom, or US comedy series, or even full supermarkets or feedom. What the eyewitnesses of 1989 need is the truth. And one thing is clear, they're now too old to take to the streets to demand it."

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