The breeze of hope :) Twenty five years ago, the unimaginable happened, in Romania. I was there as one of the Telegraph team covering the uprising. It was an exhilarating time. The Communist dictator’s fall was astonishingly swift.“Vox Populi! — Vox Dei!” said the slogans painted on walls above pools of guttering candles, It seemed to be only the truth. The people had spoken and evil had been put to flight. Today, the events of the revolution seem to belong to a distant past. Romanians have recently voted in a new president.It seemed to many in Romania that 25 years after the revolution, the country was at last getting a leader who represented the ideals that the men and women who took to streets to brave the Securitate snipers were demanding. The depressing aftermath of the Arab Spring has made us sceptical about popular uprisings. The Romanian story and the examples of modern Eastern and Central Europe are a reminder that, given the right cultural and political underpinnings, they can have reasonably happy endings. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/11307063/Nicolae-Ceausescu-and-Romanias-Christmas-revolution.html
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:27:06 +0000
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