Unfounded accusations, abusive arrests, no official indictment or trial, torture and inhumane conditions of detention.
The communist regimes used fake maps to prevent people from fleeing to the West
Lieutenant Toma Arnautoiu
The marriage age for both women and men has increased significantly
One of the achievements the communist regime was most proud of was the eradication of illiteracy.
Politician Ion Ratiu was one of the role models for Romanian society as it was beginning to rebuild democracy in 1990
President Klaus Iohannis plans to declare 2019 the Year of Gratitude for the opponents of the former communist regime.
Peace has always been a favourite theme in communist propaganda.
Between 1945 and 1989 the Romanian mass media was controlled by the Communist power. The process of gaining power...
Religion and churchgoing were generally frowned upon back in Communist Romania. Religious practices were being discouraged and back in the early days of communism, some clergymen served many years in prisons for their faith
The motto ‘Dear comrades, visit your past! is an open invitation for anyone who might want to go back to the Communist Golden Age, by visiting the Museum of the Communist Consumer in Timisoara, western Romania
A political figurehead of the Romanian anti-communist opposition, 88-year old Doina Cornea passed away in Cluj on May 4, 2018. In Romania...
The Goma Movement, named after novelist Paul Goma, the initiator of the protest, was one of the most important forms of protest by Romanian society against the communist regime.
Construction sites were one of the most powerful symbols of the communist regime in Romania, a symbol, which kept its reputation even after the demise of communism, although it got heavily politicised like any other symbols
