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12, ASPIRE http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
On the
morning of December 22, 1989, I took on heavy clothes, thinking that we could
repeat the protest from the previous day on the Roman Square, or perhaps at the
University, but once we arrived at the Revolution Square (actually, it would be
named that later, for the time being, it was still the headquarters of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party) the dictator would flee in his
helicopter.
Large
crowds would head to the television and this is where we entered the house of
some family again (as it had happened at the Roman Square, during the protest,
on the day before) and I think looked at the television for a while, and then
left to the Old Royal Palace, where shooting would start soon, all around the
tanks that were by now lined up in the square and after we took cover, we again
stood and went in ‘the line of fire’, because we realized that all the attack
was from down below, and nobody was hitting the floor.
Indeed,
when I would take clients on city tours later, when I would be in what is
called today the Hospitality Business I would show the visitors the old
building of the CC of the PCR – now the Ministry of the Interior – and how it
had no bullet marks on it, or maybe just ten wounds, while the Old Royal Palace
and the other buildings around have been severely hit, the palace being in
ruins and needing a lot of work to rebuilt and redress the damage, which would
take quite a few years to complete…
I met
Michael Meyers from Newsweek, he was the head of the Central Europe bureau for
the publication and then he would quote me in the magazine and you can find my
words here, if you are interested, a contribution that I am very proud of http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
A strange
coincidence makes it that I also met James Wilde, a marvelous man, intelligent,
experienced, amusing, wise, friendly, exotique, he had been present in almost
every country in the world, seen so much and respecting the principles
explained in Blink and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html in that he had the ten thousand
hours and all the elements to use this to extreme efficiency and in the Blink
of an eye, he could make an assessment instantly of the situation and he told
us that the FSN would break the promise, would become the dominant political
force and he also foresaw the trouble we would be in in months and years…
James Wilde
would pay me for my work as translator and fixer, for cars, interviews and
such, we would meet with the New Jesus of Montreal, Marian Munteanu, leader of
the Students’ Union, the one that would be one of the figure heads of the
protest that would occupy the University Square in a few months, in opposition
to the communist orientation of the FSN and Iliescu, a move that would make him
the target of the cave men that would descend upon Bucharest a few times, most devastatingly
between June 13 and 15, 1990, when Munteanu would be severely beaten and alas,
this would have an effect…
Because of
his injures, the commotion maybe, the man would become radial and extreme, so
much so that he would be infrequentable and isolated on some fringe, another
coincidence would make it that after 2000, when we would visit the office of a construction
company that would work on the newly acquired home, the premise was in the same
small building where Munteanu had his own organization…
James Wilde
wanted to meet with various prominent figures, which was a challenge in December
1989 and January 1990, for the dominant personage of the past decades had been
Ceausescu and the personality cult surrounding him was much like what you can
see now in North Korea with ‘Rocket Man’
We would
meet with Codabite, a singer that somehow would cross my path a few times over
the years, first we went with James Wilde to his place, which was with a three
minute walk from the Intercontinental Hotel, where all the press resided back
then, it was after all overlooking the University Square and they could take
photos of the clashes, film, record the sound of what would be going on from
their balconies.
Gabriel had
three daughters, I think, and then I would see one of them (maybe two, or all
three) walking the dog in front of the National Theater, where I would also
bring my own Deryl van Horn, and the singer would divorce his wife, and get all
the attention with a vascular accident, a heart attack I think, some years
back…
In 1991 we
went on a trip to Sofia, and Codabite was a guest, meant to perform on the
stage where Miss Romania was going to present an award, and at that time, I
would be the hidden boyfriend, the fact that I had consented to be in disguise,
under cover, for both the Bulgarian chap that had acquired the rights to
represent Miss universe for Romania, Bulgaria and perhaps a few other countries
in the region and her parents had been a terrible move, responsible in part for
the fate of the relationship.
Or is it a
confusion between causation and correlation here, just like people accuse an
affair and say oh, that woman, man or they have broken the nest, so awful, when
in fact, going out of the marital bond is a symptom pf the fact that the
connection is not great, there are deep problems there and not the cause for
them.
Yes, once a
spouse finds about betrayal, there is the showdown we so often see in movies
and read about, but the rotten core was the reason why the affair happened in
the first place, it was a manifestation
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