Ion Iliescu should understand now a fundamental thing: the Romanians who will vote him on Sunday and voted Stolojan, Isarescu and Frunda in the first presidential round only want to live in a normal country. Three hundreds letters - two hundred and ninety nine to be more specific - sent to the Foreign Affairs Ministry by different Romanian embassies between that 19th of April and the 26th of December 1989 are all gathered in a massive volume published by the Publishing House the Romanian Cultural Foundation under the title "1989 - The Principle of Dominoes", edited by Dumitru Preda and Mihai Retegan. The title, hinting to a well-known movie too, has an easily decipherable meaning: this is about the period when the communist regimes in Easter Europe started falling one by one, peaceably in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, violently in Bucharest. Most of the letters come form the capitals of the countries signing the Pact of Warsaw, but the editors also introduce messages from Beijing, Vienna, London and Washington. These are actually reports and notifications, generally signed by ambassadors themselves, who synthesize the events or register the press' and the diplomatic media' s reactions. The first thing to notice is the fact that Bucharest was informed of anything happened in the other communist countries. Several of the letters also have the merit of using a neuter tone, limiting strictly to describing the facts, others, from the most zealous ambassadors, contain judgements on the dangers that menace the socialist order or on the "inimical", "denigrating" manifestations against Romania. But, as the information are correct on the whole, we could wonder how they were interpreted at the Foreign Affairs Ministry and higher, as it was also sent to cabinet 1 and 2. I ask myself this question thinking to the contrast between the immobility of the regime in Bucharest, frozen arou