Protestele Romaniei – 28 februerie 2017
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„Romania was swept at the beginning of February 2017 with the "largest protests since the fall of communism". The protests were widely covered in the Western press, which generally took the liberal line that the protests represented the Romanian people's struggle for "democracy" against the widespread "local corruption", prompted by the scandalous attempt of the current government to "decriminalize corruption" [1]. An undertow of the same interpretation looked at the protests as a democratic revival of the struggles against communist totalitarianism from 1989. From the outset I have to insist that the direct line drawn between the December 1989 Revolution and the protests of February 2017, as well as the accompanying comparisons to Ceauşescu [2] are just sensationalist titles which are falsifying history. They reflect the Western erasure of the catastrophic history of post-socialist Eastern Europe, as well as the ongoing self-colonization of the Romanian middle-class, pandering to Western preconceptions. Equally false is the claim that the February protests have been "the first mass social movement in Romania after 1989". The 2012 popular protests had spread at national level in more than 60 cities and, as opposed to the current protests, were focused on concrete social problems, struggling against the neoliberal cuts in wages, pensions, the health and education systems. Equally important is to analyse the internal dynamics of the protest movement, as opposed to projecting judgments from the outside. While the current protests have started as popular indignation against a furtive decision of the current social-democrat government, on the background of the widespread discontent with the ongoing production of poverty and social division, they have been increasingly taken over by the right-leaning middle-class, which has currently no party representation." (Ovidiu Țichindeleanu)
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