Once
again, Romania is captive in the vicious circle of a political force
of communist and dictatorial extraction, which in fact, after
Ceaușescu's downfall, did not lose power for one single day. The
political regimes that declared themselves to be "right-wing"
(CDR and DA) fell
into the trap of the same backward left that had come from the
Pitești experiment and the Death
Channel: thus, although they had the majority in the
Parliament, the government and the President, the Services, they did
not make any efforts to establish a powerful, irreversible democracy.
The post-Ceaușescu Romanian society was successively administered
lies and repression, charades and terror. Political parties are
fakes, governments are just groups of stooges, the mass media are one
huge machinery for playing with the minds of the people, in order to
hide the truth from them, not to reveal it. Cynicism, arrogance,
boorishness and barbarism have a place of honor in this profoundly
troubled and confused society, that has been repeatedly lied to and
manipulated. The 2007 condemnation of communism was simply a soap
bubble, without any consequences for the society: Traian
Băsescu, as he himself declared, was/is a communist. Before
him, Emil Constantinescu,
Iliescu's strawman, had blocked from the start the enforcement of
the 8th Point from the proclamation
of Timișoara, by declaring it obsolete only a few years after
the fall of the communist regime (which was not accompanied, however,
by a change in the overall mentality or the actual control of
society).
Those
that always compare Dragnea's and Erdogan's regimes are either
unaware of what they say, out of naivety, or they have a veiled
interest in distracting the public attention from what is currently
happening in Romania these days. Erdogan is an authoritarian Turkish
leader, inclined towards dictatorship, yet he has nothing in common
with a totalitarian communist regime, which did not exist in Turkey,
a country which had feudal sultans, dictator-generals, and not too
democratic party leaders. Erdogan is not under Moscow's control, the
puppet of the neostalinist Putin, he is just temporarily in an
alliance with him, because of some of his interests. He does not use
a double language, either, like the old Eastern communist dictators,
but openly states what his plans for Turkey are, that he wants to
impose an authoritarian, anti-Western regime, and not a democracy.
While the regime in Bucharest is turning, from one day to the next,
into a new form of communist dictatorship (without Marx, without any
ideology), obedient to Putin. While they talk about citizen rights
and human liberties, in reality they are limiting them and even
breaking them. When they talk about freeing corrupt politicians from
jail, they are preparing the prisons for journalists, political
adversaries, fighters for democracy and freedom, people from all the
strata of society.
The
Romania of the PSD-ALDE regime
is the Romania of a communist camp which is being re-built, after
having benefited for thirty years from the technological progress of
the Western countries, a period in which the former communist
nomenklatura managed to accumulate huge fortunes. This is the
direction that Dragnea and his acolytes have in mind for the country.
This is more than saving a few of the greatly corrupt people from
prison, more than changing the laws of justice. The Red Plague will
destroy Romania again, if the Romanian society is not strong and firm
enough to stop it.
Traducere
de Roxana Doncu
Notes
CDR
– Convenţia Democră Română (Romanian Democratic Convention) was
an electoral alliance of several centre-right political parties
(National Peasant’s Party, National Liberal Party, Social
Democratic Party of Romania) active from 1991 until 2000.
DA
– Alianţa Dreptate şi Adevăr (Justice and Truth Alliance)
was a political alliance comprising two political parties in Romania
(centre right National Liberal Party and centre left Democratic
Party) active from 2004 until 2007.
Experimentul
Piteşti (The Piteşti Experience or Phenomenon) was a
so-called re-education project active between 1949 – 1951 focused
on the students arrested by the communist regime. About this,
Metapedia notes: “Between 1949 and 1951, the destruction of
society's (...) was almost complete (...) It now remained to
annihilate the unpredictable social force of youth (...) For the
latter, the Pitesti experiment was invented (termed "re-education"
by the Securitate). A re-educated person turned in fact into a
zombie, who worked ruthlessly in interest of his masters.” In his
book The Piteşti Phenomenon the Romanian-French writer Virgil
Lerunca wrote: “..."The most barbarous methods of
psychological torture were applied to "recalcitrant" young
prisoners, with the object of making them reciprocally humiliate each
other, physically abuse each other and mentally torture each other.
Victims were transformed into executioners; prisoners were tortured
by their own friends, by their fellows in suffering.” The
well-known Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize, 1970)
refers to the Pitesti experiment as the "most terrible act of
barbarism in the contemporary world".
Canalul
Dunăre – Marea Neagră / Canalul Morţii (Danube – Black
Sea Channel / The Death Channel) is a channel in Romania, which
runs from Cernavodă, on the Danube, to Constanţa (southern arm, as
main branch), on the Black Sea. It was notorious as the site of labor
camps in early 1950s Communist Romania, when, at any given time, up
to 20,000 political prisoners worked on its excavation. The total
number of people used as a workforce for the entire period is
unknown, with the total number of deaths estimated at several
thousand.
Traian
Băsescu was the president of Romania between 2004 – 2012 as a
founder and exponent of The Justice and Truth Alliance (DA).
Emil
Constantinescu, president of Romania between 1996 – 2000, as
one of founders and an exponent of The Romanian Democratic Convention
(CDR).
8th
Point from the proclamation of Timișoara. Proclamaţia de la
Timişoara / The Proclamation of Timișoara was a thirteen-point
written document, drafted on March 11, 1990 by the Timişoara
participants in Romania’s 1989 Revolution. Organized as the
Timișoara Society and other bodies of students and workers, the
signers expressed liberal-democratic goals, which they saw as
representing the revolutionary legacy. The best-known requirement
formed the document's 8th Point, calling for all former Romanian
Communist Party nomenklatura and Securitate cadres to be banned from
holding public office for a period of 10 years (or three consecutive
legislatures), with an emphasis on the office of President (see
Lustration).
