Comments on: Looking back to 1989 http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/ In the last few years I have met many foreigners living in Romania. I also have lots of foreign friends everywhere. Every now and then, but on regular basis, I hear how Romania or Romanians are and I am being asked about that. Here is the beginning of a cultural guide to getting to know Romania and Romanians with good and bad, so feel free to have have your say. Many other countries are doing this unconventional research, so, why not us too?! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:50:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: thebookguy http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-59 thebookguy Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:01:45 +0000 http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-59 The YouTube video is dead. :-( The YouTube video is dead. :-(

]]> By: jon http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-50 jon Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:33:09 +0000 http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-50 I mean no offense by this question but why is Dr. Evil (from austin powers) in the video? I mean no offense by this question but why is Dr. Evil (from austin powers) in the video?

]]> By: Peter http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-49 Peter Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:48:38 +0000 http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/looking-back-to-1989/#comment-49 Romania is still struggling with its dark past, with the almost unbearable inheritance. Only 16 years afer the revolution it is remarkable that so many Romanians I spoke with, are not interested in what happened then, or are not willing to talk about. Let is rest, they say, what's done is done, we have to go on with our lives, don't stir up the past again looking for the ones responsible to bring them to justice, or at least condemn them. There are on the other hand a minority of (younger) people who care, who ask questions, who want the thruth to be revealed, but they are also discouraged by the political climate, and their leading icons and they choose not to interfere. In this climate a colourful group from very different ideological backgrounds struggles for power which leads to fortune, for their 15 minutes of fame, for the warm comfortable light of the spotlights which is kindly offered by the press. Eternal respect for those who gave their lives for freedom. You can overthrow a dictatorship, but it's more, much more harder to overthrow a mentality which has grown as a cancer into the minds and habits of a few generations. Romania is still struggling with its dark past, with the almost unbearable inheritance. Only 16 years afer the revolution it is remarkable that so many Romanians I spoke with, are not interested in what happened then, or are not willing to talk about. Let is rest, they say, what’s done is done, we have to go on with our lives, don’t stir up the past again looking for the ones responsible to bring them to justice, or at least condemn them.

There are on the other hand a minority of (younger) people who care, who ask questions, who want the thruth to be revealed, but they are also discouraged by the political climate, and their leading icons and they choose not to interfere. In this climate a colourful group from very different ideological backgrounds struggles for power which leads to fortune, for their 15 minutes of fame, for the warm comfortable light of the spotlights which is kindly offered by the press.

Eternal respect for those who gave their lives for freedom. You can overthrow a dictatorship, but it’s more, much more harder to overthrow a mentality which has grown as a cancer into the minds and habits of a few generations.

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