The youth are not at all immune to the influences of a collective mental modeled over tenths or even hundreds of years. So, unfortunately, the problem of a deep transformation of Romania has no solution of biological nature. Interviewed by a BBC journalist between the two electoral rounds of the presidential elections, a student in Bucharest declared that he had voted for Vadim because he was hoping he "would hit the big shots". So the ones the young man had in mind were not the thieves, but the "big shots". His proletarian-like complaint might seem anachronous, but it represents a deep reality of today's Romania. It should dray the attention of those who, be them political men or intellectuals, think hat the youth are the ones who will lead the country on its good way. The starting premise is that the biological extinction of the generations impregnated with communism is going to deeply change the Romanian society, which will step by step adopt the capitalism as economic formula and the democracy as political one. It is a way to calm down by assuring ourselves that God will handle what we cannot. To believe in miracles and to hope that exterior solutions to our direct actions will appear are believes that will keep on lingering in our minds. Until 1989, we believed in Nicolae Ceausescu being overthrown by Gorbachev; more recently, NATO and the European Union should handle the security and the prosperity of our country. The faith that Romania's salvation will come by the young people is also pretty well printed in the politicians' minds. Petre Roman has already announced that he would start a reconstruction program for the Democratic Party starting form the youth. Former President Emil Constantinescu also relates his hopes for the future to the youth. For now, the only one who had an electoral gain out of all this was Vadim. The latest elections proved that, if the r