Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989 by Deletant Dennis;

Author:Deletant, Dennis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4758162
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Botez himself complained:

For years, dissidents, people like me, were perceived as enemies of the West because they were trying to distance President Ceauşescu, this golden boy of the West in the Soviet camp, from the U.S. When David Binder, probably one of the most influential Western journalists writing on Eastern Europe, came to Bucharest, I met him in the house of an American diplomat. He said some quite unpleasant things, such as ‘Who are you? What do you mean by Romanian dissidents? What do you mean by Romanian civil society? In the Balkans, such things never happen. We prefer to speak to people who represent ‘real things’, like Mr Ceauşescu. At least he has power.89

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