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| MEDIA HEADLINES (26.04.2007) |
| (2007-04-26) |
| Last updated: 2007-04-26 16:05 EET |
“The most beloved informer”. Under this half sarcastic, half bitter heading, the daily COTIDIANUL paraphrases a best seller of Romanian literature during the 1980s, and draws up a “disappointment classification”. 2,322 readers have answered to the appeal to classify their disappointment, related to various personalities who have been exposed by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives as collaborators of the former Communist regime. Politics, art, the academia, the press and the church - they all have been shadowed by the hidden past of some outstanding personalities in these fields, personalities previously considered untarnished. All those included in the “Top 16” have seasoned their post-revolutionary discourse with such an intense anti-Communist pathos that they were seen as genuine moral authorities. A leading physician, Constantin Balaceanu Stolnici, was voted by 25% of the readers, being placed at the top of the classification of the 16 former Securitate collaborators. Aged 80, this descendent of an illustrious medieval family has presided, over the past years, over the position of councilor of honour for the National Liberal Party – part of the ruling governing coalition.
It has now been revealed that many years ago, when he was head of department at the famous “Ana Aslan” Geriatrics Institute, frequented by many politicians and famous personalities the world over, doctor Stolnici used to inform on his celebrity patients. A privileged character in his notes was former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, whose almost fraternal relationship with the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu became a major topic for jokes. A historical party which contributed to the building of modern Romania from the 19th century until the inter-war period, later banned and eradicated by the communists, the National Liberal Party has the most numerous representatives in this Top 16. Also a Liberal and former minister of culture, Mona Musca was ranked second in the classification, with 22% of the vote, being followed by other Liberals, the honorary president of the party, Mircea Ionescu Quintus, historian Dan Amedeu Lazarescu and writer Alexandru Paleologu.
Without being part of the system, there were also many others who evinced liberal and anti-Securitate convictions, such as the director of the daily newspaper ZIUA, Sorin Rosca Stanescu (ranked third in the classification with 17% of the votes), professor Sorin Antohi, poet Stefan Augustin Doinas, journalists Carol Sebastian and Cornel Ivanciuc and jazzman Johnny Raducanu. In the Orthodox Church, frequently accused of immobility and inadequacy, the metropolitan bishop of Banat (a region in south eastern Romania) Nicolae Corneanu, parish priest Iustin Marchis and lay theologian Dan Ciachir used to be perceived as bright figures open to modernity. But they also made a pact with the devil. Sharing the sadness of its readers, the daily COTIDIANUL rhetorically asks if “isn’t it rather unjust to publish the names of those personalities who collaborated with the former Securitate instead of exposing the Secret police officers, the real torturers”. And the answer is unwavering: “it’s very unjust, indeed”!, but things couldn't have been different since secrets held by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives are only being revealed with difficulty, being stifled by bureaucracy and political interests.”
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