In the communism finding aliments was hard and providing people with the necessary food was very poor. People had a place to work but the money was little, the conditions were bad. Parents made everything possible for their children and for the good of the family.
We didn't have what programs tv choose, but one program and that was short and was talking about our "dear president" Ceausescu and about how great life was.The newspapers wrote only about them and lied about everything just to keep people away from the possibility of knowing the truth. People lived in fear they couldn't go outside the country, and that's when people wanted and they could run and live in other countries. We couldn't speak to the tourists and we were like animals in a cage, being tald what to do, and being said what to
think and say.I interviewed my mother, Manea Romica 41 years old
Manea Andreea, 5th grade A
Eforie Nord School, Romania

In the communist period was a leadership system office. The organization make trough organ in somebody's orders territorial on every country part local organization .Everything was supervised from people pending on leadership. Like this was in state enterprise in industry too: Every enterprise had a manager and the executive committee with their members. The agriculture was organized in the C.A.P. and the I.A.S. Every had structure and organization supervising from superior organs. The press was controlled and supervised for to relate jest was in the power interest and communist leadership. The television and the radio transmitted information programs and cent rate from the supreme power in state. The "Securitate" was an instrument through which the population was observed and the word liberty was inexistent. All this go to the revolted and at the revolution of 1989.

Stanciu Alina 6th grade A
Eforie Nord School, Romania