Chronicle of 14 years presence in Romania
It was some time in year 1996 when I visited Romania for the first time. Seven years had passed from the time when Ceausescu was overthrown and the country changed from the communist regime to the free economy system. At that time, although 7 years had passed from the date of change, a visitor could see many differences if he tried to compare with a country which did not experience the comunist system. Very poor infrastructure, old buildings with small apartments, few cars in the roads, although sometimes you could see a few expensive cars. This is understandable, and is also evident to the visitor what people had to undergo, when from one day to the other everything changed. No jobs, no money, nothing, because the country had to reorganise everything from scratch. (more…)