TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Communists and removed them from the illegitimacy of Soviet exile, in order to save Romania. The same Communists, not more thana handful, who stood under theprotectionof the king, forced the King to abdicate afterwards. Then these comrades brought the Russians into the country. They brought in the powerful, indomitable Red Army with its tanks. That were supposed to liberate Romania. Ultimately, there was war. Romania was liberated. And cleansed of Romanians. Everyone became Russian. They spoke Russian. Read Russian. The bookstores and the publishers were called “The Russian Book.” Overnight Romania became a Slavic country. With a Slavic past. History was rewritten. It was discovered that Romanian was a Slavic language. For everything to have its proper order, some new alphabet letters were invented and introduced. The orthography was changed. The spelling of Romania’s name was changed. So that as little as possible could recall the Roman roots. The introduction of the Russian alphabet was successful only in the part of Moldavia that was annexed to the Soviet Union after the war. Who was stronger. PCR or MFA. The Party or the Army. This question was difficult for us children to answer. Because with time the settlement of the MFA people grew larger and changed its name. So the city’s Securitate, security forces, who were part of the Ministry of the Interior, also moved in. The Securitate and the Army were in the service of the Party. The Party served the ideology. And the ideology was supposed 238