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| Media Headlines 23/12/2010 |
| (2010-12-23) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-24 20:03 EET |
“To be or not to be”, this is how the Bucharest daily paper Evenimentul Zilei describes the mixed perceptions of the Romanians related to the collapse of communism in their country.
“A sociological study shows the Romanians are divided when it comes to classifying the events of December 1989. Half of them believes it was a revolution, the other half believes it was a coup d’etat”, writes the newspaper, noting the perfect symmetry between the two sides: 45% to 45%.
The coordinator of the survey, the sociologist Vasile Dancu, says young people and people with low levels of education believe in the version of an authentic revolution as a result of people’s exasperation with the deprivation and abuse they were subject to during communism.
The hypothesis that the events of December 1989 were in fact a settling of accounts inside the system itself in which the national-communist wing of the Communist Party was defeated by the pro-Soviet wing is embraced by people who were active at that time and people with high levels of education.
With hindsight, it now appears that the circle of people who stood to lose the most in December 1989 has expanded from the clan of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, his close party aides and the heads of the Securitate, the political police, to the wider population.
“Most Romanians, namely 51%, believe they stood to lose from the Revolution, while only 28% say they gained something from it”, the daily paper Evenimentul Zilei writes with consternation.
The former look back with nostalgia at their safe jobs during communism and the stability, order and quiet which they think the communist police state had offered them. The biggest post-communist gains are freedom for 36% of Romanians, freedom of expression for 18% and the freedom to travel abroad for 12%.
Captured by the army, put to a hasty trial and executed only 3 days after losing power, Ceausescu is regarded today as a victim. 94% of respondents say he should have had a fair trial while 84% are opposed to his execution, which many blame on Ion Iliescu, the self-proclaimed leader of the Revolution and a former minister under the Ceausescu regime.
Two thirds of Romanians believe the Romanian Revolution benefited from foreign contribution, with 51% pointing the finger at the former Soviet Union, 13% the United States, and 11% the neighbouring Hungary. More than half of respondents believe the crimes committed during the Revolution, when more than 1,000 people were killed, should be prescribed.
To conclude, it appears that 62% of the Romanian, paradoxically believe that the Revolution should be recorded in history books as a positive event, writes Evenimentul Zilei.
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