Romania celebrates its freedom: 22 years of democracy on December 22
On December 22, when the old system was falling to pieces, a new system was slowly taking shape. Ion Iliescu, a former Communist Party member and Romania's first president after the Revolution (now an MP and honorary head of the Social Democratic Party) held a speech on the national TV station TVR. He talked about democracy, upcoming elections and the separation of state powers. He went on to become the country's elected president two times after being the country's first post-communist president.
Every year on this day Romania celebrates its freedom and mourns its dead. Has the country become what you expected it to be? Is it really a free country? We look forward to reading your comments below.
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(photo source: Wikipedia Commons; These pictures were taken by various foreign journalists and published in a book entitled: "1989 Libertate Roumanie" by Denoel Paris, dedicated to the French journalist Jean-Louis Calderon shot dead during the events. )