Posted by Twenty years ago, from June 13 to June 15, 1990, the peaceful anti-communist protest against Romania’s first freely elected government was brutally crushed by miners.
Six people died and more than 700 were injured. The daily România Liberă recalls the event: “At University Square – the reverential site of the revolution – we had a place of freedom reminiscent of Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park, where anyone could stand before the people and say whatever they liked.
… No one and nothing would have prevented Ion Iliescu [the first head of state after communism] … from going to the permanent demonstrators there and patiently explaining his views or at least listening to those who were disappointed at the way things were going.
… But back then the leaders of the working class didn’t consider it necessary to enter dialogue with the man on the street.
… Today, after so many years, the government is once again facing potential strikes. Will we have new confrontations as a result of the economic crisis and the ineffective domestic policies? The gas and electricity bills in the autumn and winter will bring us the answer.”
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