Iliescu and the hijacking of the 1989 Revolution. He saved the Securists and dreamed to establish a socialist regime in Romania as in the USSR

Ion Iliescu diverted the 1989 Romanians' revolution and tried to impose a socialist regime as in the USSR or China, historians say. Iliescu threw the country into chaos by inventing imaginary enemies precisely to put their hands on power along with the former securityists, but also the old Ceauses.

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On the sixth day of the anti -communist revolution in Romania, on the evening of December 22, 1989, the Romanians were able to follow on the small screens the communication of the Council of the National Salvation Front (CFSN) – the new provisional body of power in the state – transmitted by Ion Iliescu, the director of the Technical Publishing House, a man with Lipicii in the communist regime. After only five days, the one who served the communist regime was elected president of the CFSN with the stated purpose of “establishing the democracy, freedom and dignity of the Romanian people”.

On May 20, 1990, the same Iliescu would be elected, with unanimous votes, the first president of post-December Romania. As Iliescu appeared in the story of the 1989 Revolution and how he came, almost overnight, from the nomenclature and a Ceausist, revolutionary and fierce opponent of the communist regime, is one of the great still unresolved mysteries of our contemporary history. However, specialists in history say that Iliescu has played a fundamental role in hijacking the 1989 Revolution to save communism in Romania.

The man who confiscated the revolution of Romanians to save communism

The revolution began in Timisoara on December 17, 1989 as a revolt of the local community against communist abuses. The revolt quickly encompassed the whole city. Despite the terrible repression of the communist regime, the revolution also broke out in Bucharest, spreading later throughout the country.

Ion Iliescu in 1989 Photo Archive

Experts say that until December 22, it was an anti-communist revolution in the true sense of the word. People were tired of censorship, state of queues, grandomanic parades, shortcomings and lies.

However, the day of December 22 represented a total change in the evolution of the 1989 Revolution. It is the day when, the specialists say, Ion Iliescu, the director of the Technical Publishing House, a former communist dignitary and a former close to Ceauses, would hijack the folk revolt. Around him were former Securists, former Ceauses of all the echelons posing in pro-democrats and anti-communists. Paradoxically, playing the show of democracy, these people were actually trying to save communism.

“Ion Iliescu is the main author of the hijacking of the authentic Romanian Revolution on December 17. And the hijacking has certainly spent on December 22. Around Ion Iliescu, at least two types of forces were coagulated. The first and most consistently consistent was that of the people arranged and desirable to save as much as possible. Extended the party networks with everything they involved. Vasal states of the USSR.states for “Adevărul”, doctor Cosmin Popa, scientific researcher of the “Nicolae Iorga” History Institute.

Iliescu, chaos, death and a false national threat

In order to legitimize the hijacking of the revolution, but also to distract the attention from the true oppressors of Romanians in communism, the specialists say that Iliescu and the people around him have operated in the classic communist, diversionist style, inventing fictitious threats. For example, terrorists and foreign involvement in the revolution.

“What Ion Iliescu did, most importantly, for the first coagulated group around him was to save the security structures by sending all the time to foreign terrorists who have never existed. And one of the legends of the Romanian revolution intensely maintained by Ion Iliescu and those close to him was exactly the intervention of the intervention. Ion Iliescu used them copiously to legitimize their hijacking of the revolution ”add Cosmin Popa.

It is possible because of the rumors and false information came to the situation in which the Romanians came to shoot each other hunting terrorists. The prosecutors who investigated the crimes of the revolution have reached the same conclusion. The terrorists were only a psychosis that haunted the Romanian society in those days after Ceausescu's escape. In fact, it was a fratricidal war. Prosecutors say that this psychosis of the “terrorists” would have been intentionally fueled by different characters.

Ion Iliescu first appearance at TVR Photo Archive

“Terrorist psychosis that reached paroxysmal levels among armed military and civilians, in conjunction with many military orders that presented a diversionary character (trips of troops of military units, generally ordered at night), resulted in numerous fratricidal fire and fire opening on some persons who did not carry out persons “the military prosecutors said.

While the Romanians took care of the terrorists, Hungarians or a possible foreign invasion, the specialists say that Iliescu strengthened and legitimate their own regime, and the securityists and former nomenclature became “savior of the homeland” and democrats with documents.

“He managed to take over the partial control of the Revolution. He quickly restored all the political habits specific to the 50s throwing Romania in a authentic class struggle. Because what followed was the invention of imaginary enemies: terrorists, Hungarians, foreign intervention, loss of unity, all of them. legitimizing one's own regime and for providing convenient pretexts for the official recovery of large parts of the Ceausist repressive apparatus and the political apparatus ”adds researcher Cosmin Popa.

Romania had to return to socialism, but one with a human face

Historians say that Iliescu and his group of former security forces and nomenclaturists were following through FSN, the continuation of socialism in Romania. That is, the restoration of communism, but reformed, bearable for the population. Something like communism with a human face promoted by Gorbachev in the USSR.

“The initial objective of Ion Iliescu was to establish in Romania a political regime similar to what Gorbachev tried to undertake in the Soviet Union, a socialism with a human face, which will allow even multipartidism elements, to make the communist party's control for the population. It is what happened in Romania. Communist, the Ceausist structures in Romania, managed to make the most complete jump in the post-communist transition, through the FSN.adds Cosmin Popa.

Hence the demonization of the historical parties, just reconciled in post-communist Romania, the prohibition of King Mihai's penetration on the territory of Romania or the harsh repression of the FSN contestants and the Iliescu regime, that movement of “Golan”, with the help of miners, in the purest communist style. Subsequently, after the fall of the USSR and the democratization of Russia, the political realities made Iliescu give up the idea of a human socialism.