30 de ani de la evenimentele din 1989
30 YEARS SINCE THE EVENTS OF 1989

Summary/Abstract: History sometimes creates heroes, peoples and nations, other times destroys, crushes ormutilates collective or individual destinies. From this perspective, Ion Iliescu, the most controversialfigure of the revolution, is in reality a marginal character, others being the determinative and creativeones for the decisive events.In order to temper the political tension from the United States, and also to discover the URSS’sfurther intentions, the American president requires to Mihail Gorbaciov an unofficial meeting, with aninformative purpose. The parties decided to meet in Malta, on December second and third, 1989. TheRomanian communist leader was sure that Bush and Gorbaciov decided his removal from theleadership, this mission being given to Gorbaciov, and Bush was going to support it internationally. Incompensation, America was given the right to intervene in Panama. It was said that the Malta meetingresembled the one from Yalta. There are several similarities. First of all, it was about, in both cases, theGreat Powers that decided the faith of the smaller countries.On December 1989, in our country was registered a great number of soviet ‘tourists’. OnDecember 15. 1989, at a PECO station in Fagaras 12 cars, LADA trade were gathered, each having 3or 4 passengers, men and women. As they refill, the LADA automobiles were leaving fast, all in thesame direction, meaning west. On December 22, 1989, from the URSS Embassy in Bucharest, onKiseleff street, some groups with sportive traits came up from there, they spread through the capital, thetotal number being around 80.Mihail Gorbaciov was the one that officially announced, on December 20, 1989 that ‘inRomania there are expected major changes in the next 24 hours’. The disclosure of this sensationalannounce, which demonstrates the soviet implication in the events from December 1989 in Romania,was made public by the Romanian press only in March 1992...While KGB was attending the public opinion in Romania, CIA was doing the same,internationally, for the ouster of Nicolae Ceausescu. The leaders from the Occident no longer neededthe instrument called Ceausescu – the independent working as an intermediary between them and Chinaor URSS, due to the fact that their relationship improved. Secondly, the great occidental fund wasdeeply disturbed by the fact that Ceausescu succeeded to pay the debts before the deadline.

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