The First East-West Encounter
The First East-West Encounter

Summary/Abstract: For me, the first days of the Revolution especially meant the contact with the West. Why was that? Because my brother, who lives in Switzerland, was a very active member of the Helsinki group, with very many press contacts and he used to give my address to everybody. Hence, right from the first day, when the whole story broke out in Bucharest (after taking my family to a safe place, taking into account that bullets were whistling around there), I started to heroically broadcast about the unfolding of the events, below the living room table, God knows what or for whom. Later on, when arriving to Germany and Switzerland I was surprised to find out that people used to know me due to those first ‘reports’! Back then, an encounter with a foreign journalist who sensed the set-up in Timişoara, but afterwards was forced to write exactly the opposite was my first question mark connected to the background of the press liberty.

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