How Many Romanians Have Fled the Country in the Last Years of the Golden Age? The Truth Hidden in Security Archives
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Despite the triumphalist images promoted by the press of the time, Romania's last years of the Ceauşescu regime had become for many a country of innocuousness. A series of documents of Security, recently desecrated by CNSAS, shows the true extent of the phenomenon, comparable to an exodus. Tens of thousands of Romanians – mostly ethnic Germans or Hungarians – took advantage of any port to leave the country.â
Romania's last years of the Ceauşescu regime were silent, in parallel with the desperate efforts of propaganda to hide the phenomenon.
The National Council for the Study of the Archives of Security (CNSAS) published, on Monday, documents on the emigration of Romanians to the Federal Republic of Germany. "The autumn of 1989 hid a reality that the Ceauşescu regime was desperately trying to censor: Socialist Romania was depopulated continuously. Between 1987 and 1989, tens of thousands of citizens (especially ethnic Germans, but also Romanians [...]
The National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS) published, on Monday, documents on the emigration of Romanians to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Official data show that in the fall of 1989, just a few months before the revolution, Romanian society underwent a profound demographic, professional and social collapse.
In the last years of the Ceauşescu regime, the desire to leave Romania had become stronger, and Satu Mare was among the counties with an important number of departures to the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Between 1987 and 1 September 1989, 1,456 ...
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