The most controversial statement made about Ion Iliescu

Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – published Tuesday, 05 August 2025 19:23 / Updated Tuesday, 05 August 2025 20:39
Ion Iliescu, the first president of post-communist Romaniahe ceased his life on Tuesday, at the age of 95, at Agrippa Ionescu Hospital, where he had been admitted to almost two months ago, being diagnosed with lung cancer. ♦ In an interview with GSP in the past, Dumitru Dragomir explained why Ion Iliescu voted in 1990, after the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime.
Former President Ion Iliescu died. Dumitru Dragomir, former head of the Professional Football League, revealed in an interview with the GSP that, in 1990, he voted on the politician, after the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime.
Dumitru Dragomir appreciated Ion Iliescu
“Iliescu made the revolution. If he was not, our country was now divided, Me! Transylvania was taken by Hungarians, sure! Iliescu kept the unity of Romania, even though some swears that he is communist and so on. Who is poor today.”said Dragomir.
“No one thinks that 88 percent of the population of Romania is poor. They are all stupid? They are not stupid at all because Ceausescu forced everyone to go to school. Are they going to school now? They are a quarter illiterate. Today, there are students who do not know the multiplication board! ”Dragomir continued his controversial opinion.
In communism, who was a footballer was arranged. He received the house, he was employed, he received a bottle, so were the times, children. Now? Who is good has money, who plays in b is almost hungry mortal
Dumitru Dragomir, former President LPF
Dumitru Dragomir: “From the tail of the cow I reached the top of the pyramid”
In the interview with GSP, Dragomir acknowledged that in the 1980s he was doing extremely well, in communism. “Then I was already praised, maybe in the 1970s I was just thinking about how my children were raising and nothing else. In the 1980s I had apartments, cars. I had everything I needed for a man.”declare.

Mythic Dragomir
“I was sending my children, my wife abroad. From the tail of the cow I arrived at the top of the pyramid, and I went up, and I went up.
I never had a quiet life. Only in the grave will I be quiet. I am a storm since I get up until I go to bed
Dumitru Dragomir, former President LPF
Who was Ion Iliescu
- Ion Iliescu was born on March 3, 1930, in the municipality of Oltenita, Călăraşi county
- He entered the PCR in 1953 and became a member of the Central Committee of the PCR in 1965. Since 1971, he was marginalized by Nicolae Ceausescu; Ion Iliescu was from December 1989 the leader of the FSN, later transformed into PDSR and PSD;
- He led the Romanian state as president of the CFSN and CPUN until the elections from May 1990, when he was elected president of Romania;
- He was the president of the Kaiac-Canoe Federation;
- Subsequently, Iliescu also had two mandates of president of the country, between 1992-1996 and 2000-2004. Between 1996-2000 and 2004-2008 he was a senator from PDSR/PSD;
- Ion Iliescu was accused, on December 21, 2018, in the file of the Revolution.
Accused for crimes against humanity
Ion Iliescu was charged in the mining file of June 13-15, 1990, respectively in the Revolution file.
In the first file, recently sent to court, Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman and 6 other defendants are accused of crimes against humanity. Specifically, that “they launched a policy of repression against the civilian population in the Capital, after which 4 people were killed, 2 people were raped, the physical and/or mental integrity of over 1,300 people were injured and over 1,200 people were persecuted.”
The file of the Revolution, with Ion Iliescu among the defendants, was sent by the JCCJ back to the Military Prosecutor's Office in September 2024, 35 years after the facts. And in that file to Iliescu is brought the accusation of crimes against humanity.
Specifically, it would have supported a systematic operation of misleading public opinion between December 22-30, 1989, a manipulation that had “as consequences the generation and amplification of the generalized psychosis of terrorism, psychosis causing numerous generalized fratricidal fires”.
“Thus, 857 deaths occurred, 2,382 injuries of persons, 585 serious freedom deprivations, in violation of the general rules of international law and 409 cases of large suffering,” according to the indictment of military prosecutors.




