Anul 1989 si semnificatia Revolutiei române
1989 and the Importance of the Romanian Revolution

Summary/Abstract: In a speech on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Revolution of December 1989, held at the Romanian Academy in October 2009, the former President of Romania (1990-1996 and 2000-2004) focuses mainly on the idea of a spontaneous popular revolt which occurred in Romania in December 1989, in the international context of the end of Eastern European communist regimes. The President emphasized that the revolutionary image was overshadowed by the political disputes that followed, which revoked the revolutionary individuality of December 1989 and accused the newly elected government of 1990 of involvement in a political coup d’etat against the Communist leadership, a coup disguised as revolution. Mr. Iliescu noted that the main opponents of the idea of Revolution in December 1989 are precisely those who did not participate in the revolts against Nicolae Ceauşescu’s government.

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