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[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] THE 1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION AS GEOPOLITICAL PARLOR GAME ...: In the same daily, “Libertatea,” to which Stanculescu related this new understanding of the USLA’s actions in December (26 and 28 February 1990), between 27 January and 15 February, transcripts of regime communications, including USLA communications, from the afternoon of 21 December and then again from the morning of 22 December, had been published under the headline “Dintre sute de”¦catarge! [From hundreds of “masts!” (the radio identification for USLA officers conducting surveillance)].* Although rather conveniently missing from the transcripts is the key period in the early hours of 22 December when regime forces opened gunfire in University Square, killing 48 and wounding 604 (684 people were also arrested), these truncated transcripts nevertheless reveal USLA involvement in the repression in Bucharest.

[Scoop NZ - Site Wide Most Read] Scoop: Background Notes : Romania: Since about 200 B.C., when itwas settled by the Dacians, a Thracian tribe, Romania hasbeen in the path of a series of migrations and conquests.Under the emperor Trajan early in the second century A.D.,Dacia was incorporated into the Roman Empire, but wasabandoned by a declining Rome less than two centuries later.Romania disappeared from recorded history for hundreds ofyears, to reemerge in the medieval period as thePrincipalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Heavily taxed andbadly administered under the Ottoman Empire, the twoPrincipalities were unified under a single native prince in1859, and had their full independence ratified in the 1878Treaty of Berlin.

[Answers.com: Today in History] Romania: Definition from Answers.com: Since 1993 the Romanian Opera of Bucharest Ballet Company has been run by Iliescu and Mihai Babuska and has toured widely in Europe. Other important activity has occurred within the Experimental Studios of Dance founded 1968, and the Classical and Contemporary Ballet Ensemble (orig.

[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] “ORWELLIAN”¦POSITIVELY ORWELLIAN:” PROSECUTOR VOINEA’S CAMPAIGN TO ...: The Romanian media, intelligentsia, and Romanianists abroad have responded with predictable and defeaning silence (their transparent response, an article praising Voinea in another case in Floriana Jucan’s (!) Q Magazine: incredible!…no effort whatsoever to confront the implications of Voinea’s incompetence for research on the Revolution or their own failure to question Voinea’s claims…but why that should be and should not be a surprise should become obvious from a reading of the Orwellian…positively Orwellian article).

[findingDulcinea / Happy Birthday] On This Day: Romanian Revolution Ousts Communist Ruler: The University of Southern Queensland presents a day-by-day summary of the major events that took place during the Romanian Revolution, charting everything from Father Laszlo Tokes criticism of the regime on Dec. 15, 1989, to the public display of the Ceausescus’

[New World Encyclopedia] Romania - New World Encyclopedia: In 1877, Romania declared independence from the Ottoman Empire and, following a Russian-Romanian-Turkish war, in which Romania fought on the Russian side, Romania’s independence was recognized by the Treaty of Berlin, 1878, making it the first independent national state in eastern Europe. In return for ceding to Russia the three southern districts of Bessarabia that had been regained by Moldavia after the Crimean War in 1852, the Kingdom of Romania acquired Dobruja.

[Modern Revolutions] Modern Revolutions » Blog Archive » The Romanian Revolution of 1989: After Ceausescu fell from his leadership position and the new political structure, National Salvation Front, took power (after a huge battle taking the lives of at least nine hundred forty two people), countries turned their attention to Romania after the revolution. The National Salvation Front consisted of many former members of the Communist Party and was allies of Ceausescu, much of the world”˜s sympathy was directed to the government led by Ion Iliescu.

[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] “ORWELLIAN”¦POSITIVELY ORWELLIAN:” PROSECUTOR VOINEA’S CAMPAIGN TO ...: Brasov: 14 June 1990 was an unusual and important day in Romanian history, but not solely for the event you probably have in mind if you follow Romanian affairs. Yes, in Bucharest, miners from the Jiu Valley were brutally hunting down .

[Blogosfera] True Moldova <- Blog din Moldova: [Română] Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism June 3rd, 2008, Prague, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Prague DeclarationBearing in mind the dignified and democratic future of our European home, whereas societies that neglect the past have no future,whereas Europe will not be united unless it is able to reunite its history, recognize Communism and Nazism as a common legacy and bring about an honest and thorough debate on all the totalitarian crimes of the past century,whereas the Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity,whereas a bad conscience stemming from the Communist past is a heavy burden for the future of Europe and for our children,whereas different valuations of the Communist past may still split Europe into "West" and "East",whereas European integration was a direct response to wars and violence provoked by totalitarian systems on the continent,whereas consciousness of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regimes throughout the continent must inform all European minds to the same extent as the Nazi regimes crimes did,whereas there are substantial similarities between Nazism and Communism in terms of their horrific and appalling character and their crimes against humanity,whereas the crimes of Communism still need to be assessed and judged from the legal, moral and political as well as the historical point of view,whereas the crimes were justified in the name of the class struggle theory and the principle of dictatorship of the "proletariat" using terror as a method to preserve the dictatorship, whereas Communist ideology has been used as a tool in the hands of empire builders in Europe and in Asia to reach their expansionist goals, whereas many of the perpetrators committing crimes in the name of Communism have not yet been brought to justice and their victims have not yet been compensated, whereas providing objective comprehensive information about the Communist totalitarian past leading to a deeper understanding and discussion is a necessary condition for sound future integration of all European nations,whereas the ultimate reconciliation of all European peoples is not possible without a concentrated and in depth effort to establish the truth and to restore the memory,whereas the Communist past of Europe must be dealt with thoroughly both in the academy and among the general public, and future generations should have ready access to information on Communism,whereas in different parts of the globe only a few totalitarian Communist regimes survive but, nevertheless, they control about one fifth of the world's population, and by still clinging to power they commit crimes and impose a high cost to the well-being of their people,whereas in many countries, even though Communist parties are not in power, they have not distanced themselves publicly from the crimes of Communist regimes nor condemned them,whereas Prague is one of the places that lived through the rule of both Nazism and Communism, believing that millions of victims of Communism and their families are entitled to enjoy justice, sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings in the same way as the victims of Nazism have been morally and politically recognized, we, participants of the Prague Conference "European Conscience and Communism", having regard to the European Parliament resolution on the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945 of May 12th, 2005,having regard to Resolution 1481 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of January 26th, 2006,having regard to the resolutions on Communist crimes adopted by a number of national parliaments,having regard to the experience of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa,having regard to the experience of Institutes of Memory and memorials in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the United States, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania, the museums of occupation in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as the House of Terror in Hungary,having regard to present and upcoming presidencies in the EU and the Council of Europehaving regard to the fact that 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe as well as the mass killings in Romania and the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, call for: reaching an all-European understanding that both the Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes each to be judged by their own terrible merits to be destructive in their policies of systematically applying extreme forms of terror, suppressing all civic and human liberties, starting aggressive wars and, as an inseparable part of their ideologies, exterminating and deporting whole nations and groups of population; and that as such they should be considered to be the main disasters, which blighted the 20th century, recognition that many crimes committed in the name of Communism should be assessed as crimes against humanity serving as a warning for future generations, in the same way Nazi crimes were assessed by the Nuremberg Tribunal,formulation of a common approach regarding crimes of totalitarian regimes, inter alia Communist regimes, and raising a Europe-wide awareness of the Communist crimes in order to clearly define a common attitude towards the crimes of the Communist regimes, introduction of legislation that would enable courts of law to judge and sentence perpetrators of Communist crimes and to compensate victims of Communism,ensuring the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination of victims of all the totalitarian regimes, European and international pressure for effective condemnation of the past Communist crimes and for efficient fight against ongoing Communist crimes, recognition of Communism as an integral and horrific part of Europe’s common history acceptance of pan-European responsibility for crimes committed by Communism, establishment of 23rd August, the day of signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, as a day of remembrance of the victims of both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, in the same way Europe remembers the victims of the Holocaust on January 27th, responsible attitudes of National Parliaments as regards acknowledgement of Communist crimes as crimes against humanity, leading to the appropriate legislation, and to the parliamentary monitoring of such legislation, effective public debate about the commercial and political misuse of Communist symbols, continuation of the European Commission hearings regarding victims of totalitarian regimes, with a view to the compilation of a Commission communication, establishment in European states, which had been ruled by totalitarian Communist regimes, of committees composed of independent experts with the task of collecting and assessing information on violations of human rights under totalitarian Communist regime at national level with a view to collaborating closely with a Council of Europe committee of experts;ensuring a clear international legal framework regarding a free and unrestricted access to the Archives containing the information on the crimes of Communism, establishment of an Institute of European Memory and Conscience which would be both - A) a European research institute for totalitarianism studies, developing scientific and educational projects and providing support to networking of national research institutes specialising in the subject of totalitarian experience, B) and a pan-European museum/memorial of victims of all totalitarian regimes, with an aim to memorialise victims of these regimes and raise awareness of the crimes committed by them, organising of an international conference on the crimes committed by totalitarian Communist regimes with the participation of representatives of governments, parliamentarians, academics, experts and NGOs, with the results to be largely publicised world-wide, adjustment and overhaul of European history textbooks so that children could learn and be warned about Communism and its crimes in the same way as they have been taught to assess the Nazi crimes the all-European extensive and thorough debate of Communist history and legacy, joint commemoration of next year’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the killings in Romania.

[Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Michael Jackson's 'Heart'-felt Katrina response | PopWatch Blog ...: OK to all of the scared people, Michael Jackson has the soul of a child, thing people unsensitive like you can't understand, period. Michael Jackson deserves respect, and I can't even believe there are still stupid souls who cant't understand that children are not a sexual thing, Micahel Jackson didn't do anything sexual to any child, he was found NOT GUILTY, so if you want to continue with this whole thing I think you have a twisted mind MICHAEL JACKSON IS A GOOD PERSON AND IS HELPING, so get it.

[Sarah in Romania] Violence and Prose...: The British Government accused the Iliescu Government of using the tactics of the Ceausescu regime. In London, a Foreign Office official, William Waldegrave, said: ''What is depressing is both the rhetoric - talking about all their opponents of being fascists and gypsies, just like Ceausescu - and the way in which they called out the 'rent-a-mob' of coal miners who were bused in, armed with pickax handles and knives, and loosed off into the streets.''

[chrislanecu] Facts!: of January1990 when mineworkers and laws, reacting to Iliescu 's prayers, occupied Bucharest and brutalise educatees and intellects who protested what they drew as the highjacking of the Romanian revolution by former members of the communistic leading under the aegises of the Subject Redemption Forepart, in an endeavor to inhibit any echt political resistance. </p>

[platform] Dr Lee Rotherham: Tony Blair, EPP exit and glass houses: In 1992, an internal power struggle within the National Salvation Front resulted in the less reformist group backing Ion Iliescu withdrawing from the FSN to found the Democratic National Salvation Front. In turn, this would become the PSD.

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