The Institute for Communism Crimes Investigation requires firm measures against misinformation and communist nostalgia campaigns

The Institute for Investigation of Communism Crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile (IICCMER) requested, on Tuesday, firm measures to combat the “online assault” of misinformation and nostalgia campaigns after communism, writes Agerpres.

Iiccmer highlights the need for firm measures to combat a “dangerous phenomenon for democracy and national security.”

“At the same time, the Institute declares its solidarity towards the Attorney General of Romania, Alex Florence, and considers today a crucial step made in the fight against the hybrid war coordinated by the Russian Federation and which has been visibly manifested in the public space in the last year,” says IICCMER in a press release.

The Institute recalls that the General Prosecutor's Office has identified four major types of narratives used in 2022 to manipulate public opinion at key moments, the first pattern and the most important being the narrative-identity.

This is not the first time ICCMER draws attention to a coordinated propaganda campaign of the ideologies specific to totalitarian regimes. In May 2025, he sent to the CNA a request to destroy a network that included tens of thousands of trolls and boots, who posted false and nostalgic-totalitarian content on social networks.

Prosecutor General: Romania, the target of hybrid campaigns related to Russia

“Romania was the favorite target of large, hybrid campaigns, in the context of the electoral scrutins of 2024, the hostile actors following the continuous modeling of the public view, the destabilization of the decision -making capacity of the authorities and the dilution of the cohesion in the population level,” it resides from the investigations carried out at the General Prosecutor's Office, the General Prosecutor, the General Prosecutor.

Florence said that this campaign was manifested by cyber attacks and measures to destabilize public order.

He warned that Romania is still in the viewfinder of a hybrid aggression to which it must cope, specifying that the hybrid war at the moment, compared to the traditional war, is much more insidious more treacherous, but with the results of influencing the way of the social life, ”.

Says Florence, “Propaganda propaganda channels have been used.” “At the level of the social networks were identified instigating messages to hatred, violent actions, including against the authorities, most of the threats being outlined around the idea of ​​general revolt, the messages containing phrases that exploited nostalgic feelings, they mostly refer to the Revolution of December 1989,” said the prosecutor.