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Amid Euro Fever, Tour Revisits Romania’s old Communist-era Stadiums

Under the suggestive title Stadioane de cartier, Romanian for "neighbourhood stadiums", a series of tours around Bucharest organised by the online publication CORNER football+society take participants to the vestiges of a bygone era in which football was a key part of the lives of millions under the iron-fisted rule of the Communist Party.

POST-REVOLUTION ROMANIA, 1990: Statue of V. I. Lenin in Piata Scanteii gets displaced

On March 5, two months after the events of December 1989 that toppled communism in Romania, a vestige of the late regime, a bronze statue of Vladimir I. Lenin, on the esplanade before in front of the Casa Scanteii, today's Casa Presei Libere, was removed from its pedestal. Since February, several dozen people had protested the presence of V.I.

POST-REVOLUTION ROMANIA, 1990: Official authorization of the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party

January 8, 1990 saw the authorization, by the Bucharest Municipal Court, of post-communist Romania's first political party - the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party (PNTCD) led by Corneliu Coposu (b. May 20, 1914 - d. November 11, 1995).

REVOLUTION 30: 23 - 31 December 1989 events in Bucharest and in other Romanian cities

Romania was the only country facing wide spread violence during the 1989 revolutions; officially, 1,104 people died and 3,300 were injured. Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, believed to be the most brutal and repressive in Eastern Europe, was without doubt one of the main reasons for such a tragic end - as the work ''The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.

Balcony from where Ceausescu delivered his speech, his office, Securitate cells toured by thousands

Thousands of people toured the former building of the Central Committee (CC) of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) on Sunday, the current headquarters of the Interior Ministry (MAI), with people having access to spaces that were never open to the public - such as the arrest of the former Securitate, located in the basement of the CC, or the balcony from the first floor, where Nicolae Ceausescu

REVOLUTION 30: What happened in Timisoara, over December 16-20, 1989

The year 1989 meant the end of the communist regime in the Central and Eastern European countries. Romania was the only ex-communist country in the case of which the switch to democracy was violent, involving protests and street fights, and the only country where the leaders of the former regime got executed.

Iohannis: Assault of PSD majority on rule of law risks to weaken Romania's status in NATO, EU

President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday at a solemn sitting of Parliament dedicated to the 15th anniversary of NATO accession that "the unprecedented assault" of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) majority on the rule of law "risks to weaken" the status of Romania in the Alliance and in the EU.

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