joi, 22 septembrie 2022

Permaflow 12, ASPIRE - http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world

 

Permaflow 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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