She said that, back then, people generally had more respect for their country, nationality and history. And there were other positive things. "Everyone had a job, and everyone had a house," she told me. "The problem was that we weren't allowed access to information. We weren't allowed to read writers who didn't have Ceausescu's approval. We weren't allowed to travel abroad, or have friends from abroad. On some days, we weren't allowed to drive." And then there were the food rations, she said: no more than half a loaf of bread, not too much meat, or sugar, and so on. While we spoke, Anca's husband, Vio, chopped potatoes and cooked them in a frying pan. Twenty years ago, if he'd been cooking at 7:00 pm, he would've been cooking by candlelight. That's because the communist government cut off electricity from 6:00 - 8:00 pm each night across the country to preserve energy.
She said that, back then, people generally had more respect for their country, nationality and history. And there were other positive things.
"Everyone had a job, and everyone had a house," she told me. "The problem was that we weren't allowed access to information. We weren't allowed to read writers who didn't have Ceausescu's approval. We weren't allowed to travel abroad, or have friends from abroad. On some days, we weren't allowed to drive."
And then there were the food rations, she said: no more than half a loaf of bread, not too much meat, or sugar, and so on.
While we spoke, Anca's husband, Vio, chopped potatoes and cooked them in a frying pan. Twenty years ago, if he'd been cooking at 7:00 pm, he would've been cooking by candlelight. That's because the communist government cut off electricity from 6:00 - 8:00 pm each night across the country to preserve energy.
Everyone had a job, and everyone had a house
unless you were Roma. and sometimes the authorities would just bulldoze your viallge and turn you off your fields and make you go live in a City high rise where you had no friends, no food, no work you had skills for.
Gah !! Revisionist claptrap !! keep to the Fen Causeway
