Iliescu's relationship with Gorbachev. The involvement of the USSR leader in the '89 Revolution was conveyed: “It is a false historian that has no basis”
The relationship of the former president of Romania, Ion Iliescu, with Mihail Gorbachev was long disputed during the post -December period. They met in Bucharest in 2010, at the launch of a newspaper.
Mihail Gorbachev and Ion Iliescu Photo: Mediafax
The former president of Romania wrote at that time, on his blog, that they did not meet during the student in Moscow and that the first conversation had only on December 27, 1989.
“He failed on account of my personal relationships with Gorbachev. We did not have the opportunity to meet, to get to know each other during the student. Coincidentally.“, Said Iliescu, according to a material published in” Adevărul “
Ion Iliescu said that the first conversation he had with Gorbachev was a telephone call on December 27, 1989.
“I had a famous colleague, who became China's Prime Minister, Li Peng. I was a group colleague and I met him last year, in Beijing. But with Mihail Sergheevici I had the first telephone call on December 27 (1989, no). Mihail Sergheevici called. the activity of this military alliance ”Iliescu recalled.
In fact, the former president then wanted to dismantle several theses that were conveyed in the press, such as the existence of a request to the USSR to intervene at the Revolution.
“There are all kinds of ideas that Iliescu, the FSN would have asked the USSR to send troops to Romania. That Iliescu spoke to Gorbachev to ask them to send troops to Romania. It is a false historian who has no basis. Moreover, I found out that on December 24 (1989, n.red) the US Secretary of State, Soviet, respectively the Treaty of Warsaw, would intervene in Romania to end the blood. The journalists: “First of all, the Romanians did not ask for something like that, even if they asked us, we would not have answered because we made a fundamental political decision: to give up the Brezhnev doctrine” “Iliescu said.
The former president also denied the idea that the fate of Romania and the Ceausescu spouses would have decided in Malta and criticized the spontaneous character of the Revolution.
On the same topic, Mihail Gorbachev said in 2010 that the idea that he would have decided, in Malta, together with George Bush, the removal of the regime in Romania, is a myth and that there were no such discussions: “It is not true, there was no such discussion. Do not believe in the myths and rumors that are heard. “
Ion Iliescu died. Former President of Romania has extinguished at 95
Ion Iliescu, an emblematic figure of the recent history of Romania, died on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, at 3:55 pm, at 95, the Government of Romania and the Emergency Clinical Hospital “Prof. Dr. Agrippa Ionescu” announced. The former president was admitted for two months, and for three days he was in a coma. The health status of the former president has been significantly damaged in the last 48 hours. Ion Iliescu was in a critical state, characterized by the progressive installation of multiple organ dysfunctions. He was suffering from lung cancer.
The state funerals of the former president of Romania, Ion Iliescu, will take place on August 6 and 7, 2025, at the Cotroceni Palace and at Ghencea 3 in Bucharest. State organized ceremonies include a moment of public silence, a religious ceremony and a funeral with military honors. The burial will take place in a private setting, in the presence of the family and the close ones.
The day of August 7, 2025 was declared a national mourning day on the territory of Romania, in memory of the former President Ion Iliescu. All central and local public institutions and public authorities will fly the flag of Romania in Bern, Government said
