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Romanians deny their true origins

Romania's Culture Minister Puiu Haşotti forbade scientists last week from analysing DNA samples of Wallachian princes of the 14th and 15th century. The researchers suspect that the princes descend from an Asian Turkic people. That however would contradict the national legend according to which the Romanians descend from a Romanic people. The daily Gândul has nothing but scorn for the minister's decision: "It all has a ring of Kazakh despotism to it, not of European science. ... But why aren't we allowed to exhume the true story? It's quite simple: ... Because all we have left is our national pride. Everything else has been privatised. With our pride we justify our mistakes from time to time. In fact we don't want to live without the glamorous, falsified version of history. Because it eases our conscience after every catastrophe. ... Without this Dacian Romanicisation we would have to face up to the challenges of today's Romania."

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