At the end of World War II while the USSR and its Red Army were the occupying powers in all Romania, in 1947 Romania forcibly and ironically became a “People’s Republic” (1947–1989), after the rise of the Iron Curtain. The first Gheorghiu-Dej (1947) ruled as puppet of Moscow, but when he “president,” died, his Secretary General of the Communist Party of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, was elected as the second (1965-1989), shifting his savage dictatorship into a “president” harsher Romanian than known in the USSR. “Gulag” For two decades, I neither understood the dimensions of tragic history of Transylvania, nor did I yet realize that I would have to escape the Gulag of Romania, even if by the of my teeth.” “skin For peoples of the world Transylvania seems to be a faraway place, where most people know the werewolves and vampires have been to in the imagination of “seen” Transylvanians, whose beliefs was soaked in mystical folklore. Even today it is hardly possible to have a rational conversation with most the Transylvanian folk on any subject without recourse to try to understand where their distorted imagination has befuddled them. The population has consisted of Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, and some Ukrainians. languages are still being spoken in Romania’s Maramures province, but
At the end of World War II while the USSR and its Red Army were the occupying powers in all Romania, in 1947 Romania forcibly and ironically became a “People’s Republic” (1947–1989), after the rise of the Iron Curtain. The first “president,” Gheorghiu-Dej (1947) ruled as puppet of Moscow, but when he died, his Secretary General of the Communist Party of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, was elected as the second “president” (1965-1989), shifting his savage dictatorship into a harsher Romanian “Gulag” than known in the USSR. For two decades, I neither understood the dimensions of tragic history of Transylvania, nor did I yet realize that I would have to escape the Gulag of Romania, even if by the “skin of my teeth.” For peoples of the world Transylvania seems to be a faraway place, where most people know the werewolves and vampires have been “seen” to in the imagination of Transylvanians, whose beliefs was soaked in mystical folklore. Even today it is hardly possible to have a rational conversation with most the Transylvanian folk on any subject without recourse to try to understand where their distorted imagination has befuddled them. The population has consisted of Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, and some Ukrainians. languages are still being spoken in Romania’s Maramures province, but
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