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Postcard from Europe: Romanian countryside transformed by EU subsidies

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:14:56 GMT

In the late 1980's, English newspapers were full of stories of how the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was laying waste the historic villages of Romania. There followed an international outcry against such brutal, architectural vandalism.
Source: Deutsche Welle

The Berlin Wall has fallen but not the ideas that built it

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:08:12 GMT

If you thought the blows of the sledgehammers that helped knock down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago were powerful, you should have seen the pats on the back European Union leaders gave themselves standing near the site.
Source: New Europe News

The limits of people power

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:27 GMT

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this week, the news was filled with images of that epoch-ending night, and of the equally historic events that led up to and followed it.
Source: Boston Globe

Tales from the Golden Age

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:03:59 GMT

Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the end of Communism in Europe. Across Eastern Europe, the people came out in public revolt against the regimes - including the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.
Source: BBC News

Communist consumer goods make comeback

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:44:48 GMT

Bucharest -- Once the butt of jokes the world over, communist-era East European goods from sweets, to rustic washing machines and clunky cars are all the rage again.
Source: Expatica

Communist consumer goods make comeback

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:45:39 GMT

AFP - Once the butt of jokes the world over, communist-era East European goods from sweets, to rustic washing machines and clunky cars are all the rage again.
Source: France 24

Post-Communist Postcards

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:36:35 GMT

Nicolae Ceausescu's "Palace of the People," now the Romanian parliament building, Bucharest Bucharest, Romania, in the rain Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Transylvania, Romania Medieval clock tower,...
Source: Michael J. Totten

Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Bucharest for Architecture Buffs

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:42:26 GMT

BUCHAREST (Reuters Life!) - Got 48 hours to explore Bucharest, with its rare mixture of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery and 20th century totalitarian megalomania?
Source: ABC News

Photo from AP Photo

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:56:13 GMT

Actor Ethan Hawke, left, speaks to Palme d'Or winner Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, right, at the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009.

Photo from AP Photo

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:56:09 GMT

Actor Ethan Hawke speaks at the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009.

Nicolae Ceausescu - Execution - Part 1

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