Before 1989 provisioning with foods was difficult, but not because of money like in our days, because of the market, which were empty. But,with a little effort you could feed your family. Then you could watch TV only a few hours everyday and everything was censured. Now everyone has the right to tell what he wants. The big problem of our days is the unemployment. Before 1989 you could find many jobs, but now...Now, we have the right to
our own opinion, but most of us trye hard to survive. For a retired like me it's even worse.

I interviewed my grandfather,
Paul Inel, 8th grade A
Eforie Nord School, Romania
florina@lefo.ro

From the oldest times people tried to find sociopolitical structures which could bring welfare to everyone. Therefore a lot of books have been written such as "City ofSun" ("Fortress of Sun") written by Tomaso Campanela. Later these ideas were taken by social trends one of them being the communism.
The communism was installed for the first time in Russia being later imposed as a political trend around its fronteers.The communism was imposed in our country as well as in other countries. All the private properties went to the state everything being carefully controlled. Man's work wasn't appreciated at its true value because all the people were considered equal,
which couldn't be true. This system was closed in such a way that nobody could have access on the International Market neither to its technology. Humans became more and more poor and they were forced to bear winter frost in their houses without enough heating, the power breaking for economy and the insufficient materials for basic needs were other exasperating problems. To maintain the calm inside the system was created a permanent security service, so that people couldn't express the dissatisfaction. The press was controlled while the ruler, in the case of Romania Ceausescu, was celebrated and considered"the best son of the nation" being surrounded
only by people which and encouraged his decisions.

In time the dissatisfaction of a whole nation transformed into what will later be called as - the Romanian Revolution.
The result of this political regime was disastrous:
- thus it was necessary to change the economical centralized system in order to fit it in the European frame.
- the new economical transition lead to a tremendous drop of the national currency value- the country being very often on the verge of collapse. Although it seemed at the beginning as a very generous idea, the communism proved to be nothing but a social disaster for many countries.
Interview realized with Vicoveanu Georgeta, 55 years, retired from the "Grand" Sanatorium, Eforie Nord.
Vicoveanu Iulia Valentina
8th grade A, Eforie Nord School
coordinator:Florina Serbu, teacher of history

Who was Nicolae Ceausescu? What did he do?
Nicolae Ceausescu was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, which was the only political force in Romania, the president of Romania, the supreme commander of the army. Then there were no democracy, man had no right to express freely, there was terror everywhere. The man had no right to be a private enterprising, he killed every initiative from the beginning. As a compulsion force
he use the Security. If you had a "political lair", the Security was fulfilling his duty entirely. Those nostalgic probably forgot the endless tails for some meat, for one litter of milk, for a chicken and others. They forgot probably that the every day stress was brought by the fact that the fridge was empty, that the next day you don't have what to eat, what to give your kids to eat, that in the house was very cold, although the "precious information" to put one more coat to keep you warmth didn't work, they were stressing you even harder. After a hard day at work, after standing at those tails, in the
evening when you try to feel as much conformable as you can, the stress increases even harder when in those two hours of broadcast on the only TV station you seen the activity of "the most beloved son". The memory of this nightmare is still alive and this is why I donut understand those nostalgic and if even the living standard in Romania is low I have trust in the working force, in the intelligence, in the creativity and the discrimination of the romanian
people.

I interviewed my mother, Aurica Mihailescu, 36 years
Dan Mihailescu,grade 7A, Eforie Nord School
Coordinator Florina Serbu
florina@lefo.ro