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Walter Friedl – From Vienna with love
Walter Friedl has had a long relationship with Romania. Indeed, perhaps love affair would be a better term, as his passion for the country is clear from almost as soon as he speaks. Originally from Vienna, he first came to Bucharest before…
Corina Chirileasa · Journalist
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Walter Friedl has had a long relationship with Romania. Indeed, perhaps love affair would be a better term, as his passion for the country is clear from almost as soon as he speaks. Originally from Vienna, he first came to Bucharest before the 1989 revolution as Austria's commercial attache, he met and shook hands with Romania's notorious tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu and was an eyewitness to the revolution.
