Hainan has a special economic geographical location in China. The island is geographically isolated by the extreme south of the country, and has never been as industrialized as the major manufacturing centers of the coast, like Guangdong, Jiangsu or Zhejiang. Its economy has not been dependent on the heavy industry or mass production but on tourism, agriculture, and simple services.

After a few minutes, Mircea Mihășan, an actor and the director of the “Casa de Cultură,” came to me and invited me into an office to make decisions. In that office were several well-known people in the city, union leaders, and PCR secretaries from the schools and the metallurgical plant. There was also a famous local security officer; none of them had been to the protest. The colonel from Luna had also come to the office. They all announced to me that they represented the new power structure called CFSN (Council of the National Salvation Front) and that they had designated me to be the leader of the youth in the city.

Of course I was surprised and got angry; for us they represented the regime of terror. I asked them harshly who exactly chose them to lead us. They started shouting angrily, then I called them in front of the crowd to test if the people agreed with this composition. They yelled at me, and I cursed them, and against this background, cheers and chants of “Mi-hă-şan” could be heard outside. The actor had proclaimed himself the head of the city, secretly sent by the CFSN-ists with whom I was arguing in the office.

It was clear to me what had happened and what a trap had been set for me, and after I had cursed them again, I left the rally with my fellow students, with whom I thought we were making a revolution. Anyway, I won’t prolong it any longer. I finally got home around 1:00 in the morning. My father was with a few neighbors, and they were having fun, celebrating the victory. I ruined their mood by telling them to go to bed because the same people from before were leading us, and that was my so-called revolution. About December 21, 1989, WIKIPEDIA marks it like this: “The Romanian Revolution. In Bucharest, Nicolae Ceaușescu organizes a rally in what is now the “Revolution Square.” In addition to the well-known slogans, whistles and boos are heard in the crowd. The Revolution begins in Bucharest. Timișoara becomes the first city in Romania free from communism.”

Yesterday, the EVZ publication published an article resuming Nicolae Ceaușescu’s TVR speech of December 20, 1989, in which he had mentioned the interference of foreign secret services in the events 13 times. Here, they reprised some fragments of what Ceaușescu had said at the time, the journalists’ comment being that he “built an argument based on the idea of ​​external aggression, mentioning the involvement of foreign forces 13 times. He used terms such as “espionage services,” “imperialist circles,” and “foreign agents” to frame the events in Timișoara not as an internal revolt but as an attack on national sovereignty. The direct reference to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 served as a historical precedent to justify military mobilization in the face of what he defined as a plan for the “territorial dismemberment of Romania.”

At the same time, the communist leader applied extremely harsh labels to the protesters, using 12 terms from the sphere of terrorism and fascism. The demonstrators were called “hooligan elements,” “terrorist gangs,” or groups with a “clearly fascist character,” a terminology intended to place them outside legal protection and legitimize armed reprisals.”

Nicolae Ceaușescu:

“From the data available to date, it can be stated with full certainty that these terrorist actions were organized and launched in close connection with reactionary, imperialist, irredentist, and chauvinist circles and with espionage services from various foreign countries. The purpose of these provocative anti-national actions was to cause disorder in order to destabilize the political and economic situation and to create the conditions for the territorial dismemberment of Romania and the destruction of the independence and sovereignty of our socialist homeland.

It is no coincidence that the radio station in Budapest and other countries launched, during these anti-national terrorist actions, a relentless campaign of slander and lies against our country. The goal, I repeat, according to the data we have so far and from the position taken by the revisionist, vindictive, imperialist circles in various countries, is to destroy the independence and integrity, to stop the course of the socialist development of Romania, to return Romania back under foreign domination, and to liquidate the socialist development in our homeland.”

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“The campaign launched by various circles and governments against Romania strongly demonstrates that these actions were well-prepared in advance. The question is rightly asked: why have those imperialist circles and governments that make all kinds of statements against Romania never said anything about the very serious events in various countries recently? It is clear that this campaign against Romania is part of a more general plan against the independence and sovereignty of peoples, of those peoples who do not want foreign domination and are ready to defend their independence, their right to a free life, at any cost, including with weapons in hand.

We all remember the firm position of our entire people in 1968, against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and for the defense of Romania’s independence. Now it can be said that it is a similar or even more serious situation.”

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“It is the duty of all citizens of the Socialist Republic of Romania to act with all their might against all those who, in the service of various foreign interests, intelligence services, and reactionary imperialist circles, sell their country for a handful of dollars or other currencies. We must give a resolute response against those who want to dismember Romania, to liquidate the integrity and independence of our homeland. It is necessary to support, under all circumstances, our army—the reliable defender of the independence, sovereignty, and integrity of the country, of socialist construction, and of the peaceful life of our entire nation. Let us act in such a way that its intervention is not necessary. At the same time, let us not allow under any circumstances that the army be attacked; let us act to create disorder and to hinder the peaceful activity and work of the people.

True freedom and true humanism mean ensuring the socialist development of the homeland and the well-being of the entire nation, ensuring the independence and integrity of the country, and exposing all those who act, regardless of the form, against the interests of the homeland, independence, and socialism in Romania.”

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“I address the citizens of our homeland with the call to show a high patriotic and revolutionary spirit, to understand that what happened in Timisoara constitutes actions organized in advance by reactionary circles, by foreign agents, who organized all of this against our homeland.”

Of course, in those days this speech meant nothing to us, and even with our condition as slaves of the regime and condemned to deprivation of freedom, we considered those words of Ceaușescu the inventions of a cynical political trickster who had lost touch with reality. We did not believe them, and they revolted us even more; it was natural and normal for them to have such effects. Today, however, after living for 36 years under the specter of the lie that we had experienced a revolution, but many of us understood long ago that it was a coup d’état, we must admit that Ceaușescu was right. Romania’s resources have been stolen in the meantime by exactly those whom the dictator had mentioned. Foreign secret services today dictate their law in our country, the country that no one doubts is led by the External Factor, that is, “foreign agents” that Ceaușescu was afraid of, but he no longer knew how to protect the country. He paid with his life a few days later, being ferociously killed, but we were left, disoriented and helpless, to pay the victorious West the bill for the last 36 years. And we will do so, unfortunately, for many more years to come!

The causes are many and complex; one of the main ones I evoke today is that the exercise of lying that we were trained to practice under communism marked us and entered our blood at the national level. Based on it, we have led our social life in recent decades in a country that could not possibly do well given the conditions in which its citizens accepted to rebuild it with a shaky support base built on the lie of the so-called Revolution.

By Cozmin Gusa

http://www.solidnews.ro