Reminiscențe totalitare, mituri politice și manipulare în România postdecembristă
Totalitarian reminiscences, political myths and manipulation in Romania after December 1989

Summary/Abstract: This study attempts to demonstrate that the regime that seized power in Romania after the revolution of 1989 maintained some features of a totalitarian regime. Thus, the transition from totalitarianism to democracy experienced great difficulties. Some political myths, like the myth of the Savior, the myth of the charismatic leader and the myth of the revolution were characteristic to the Communist period. Actually, they have also perpetuated during transition to post-communism. Immediately after the revolution from December 1989, we cannot talk about a genuine democratization in Romania. The new authorities assured the complete control over the means of coercion and persuasion. They enjoyed as well the work of an obedient press and television. The National Salvation Front (N. S. F.) and the president Ion Iliescu managed to manipulate an important part of the Romanian public opinion, valorizing its negative features, such as credulity, impulsiveness and irritability.

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