 Room 12
Year 1945. From Yalta to Moscow
1945 was the year of Romania’s enclosing for at least two decades into the Soviet empire.
The verdict was dictated in Moscow, in October 1944, when the influention spheres were loomed by Stalin and Churchil on a piece of paper.
At that moment, Northern Transylvania was close to being released; when it was fully released, on 25 October 1955, the administration was handed over to the Red Army.
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 Rooms 54-58
Gheorghe I. Bratianu: A Historian in History
In an impressive display, the photographs, documents, and genealogical tree reconstruct the great historian’s formative environment, illustrating the important role played by his family as well as his school. Bratianu's activity is presented, starting with his early historical research and culminating in the publication of numerous works of historical reference. His remarkable contribution to university [...] |
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 Room 75
Demolitions in the 1980s
The demolitions carried out in Bucharest in the 1980s by the Ceausescu regime involved large scale destruction of the historical and cultural patrimony. The main aspect of this project was a presidential palace around which ministries and other public institutions were to be focused. Using this pretext, monasteries and churches were destroyed, some of them over 300 years old, alongside family houses, [...] |
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The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance was initiated in 1992 by the President of the Civic Alliance, Ana Blandiana, together with Romulus Rusan and an important group of historians, architects and designers.
Made up of a Museum
- situated in the former political prison in Sighet - and an International Center for Studies about Communism - with its headquarters in Bucharest
- The Memorial aims to rebuild the memory of certain nations, particularly the Romanians, who for half of a century have been misled with a false history.
