Check out this one about Herta Müller from The Guardian and also this overview of the situation in Romania from The Huffington Post as the country faces a heated presidential election 20 years after the Revolution.
Typical securitate/Stasi or other KGB's reaction, saying that the victim is in fact the one who is guilty, to put him in a defensive situation where he has to prove that the agressor is lying. What is even more shocking is that the ex securitate officer is now a decent diector of an insurance company...
Instead of being proud of a Nobel Prize Winner, Romanians show their envy, "after all, she made a disgrace of Romania and Romanian people to the rest of the world."
Yes, this guy sounds nuts. I think you can tell quite a lot about the state of a country when it is not proud to have a Nobel Prize winner. Who wouldn't be proud?! I mean this situation with Muller is just plain bizarre as many things concerning Romania are.
Typical securitate/Stasi or other KGB's reaction, saying that the victim is in fact the one who is guilty, to put him in a defensive situation where he has to prove that the agressor is lying. What is even more shocking is that the ex securitate officer is now a decent diector of an insurance company...
ReplyDeleteInstead of being proud of a Nobel Prize Winner, Romanians show their envy, "after all, she made a disgrace of Romania and Romanian people to the rest of the world."
Yes, this guy sounds nuts. I think you can tell quite a lot about the state of a country when it is not proud to have a Nobel Prize winner. Who wouldn't be
ReplyDeleteproud?! I mean this situation with Muller is just plain bizarre as many things concerning Romania are.