It is hard to reconstitute history changing the starting premises; yet it is quite likely that the Romanian political system would have looked differently now if the principles of the Proclamation in Timisoara had been adopted ten years ago. Do you remember paragraph 8 of the Proclamation in Timisoara? At the time, the FSN (National Salvation Front) leaders, with Ion Iliescu in the first place, were denouncing it as an example of intolerance coming form the opposition. What is more, its initiators were even accused of communist behavior! Moreover, the general process of rendering exclusively culpable the Ceausescu couple, for all the awful things during the communist period, started immediately after December 22nd, 1989, was only the first step of a clever "public cleaning" of a whole influent network of former communist dignitaries and "Securitate" officers who, subsequently, by the agency of FSN and than PDSR (Social Democracy Party) and PRM (Big Romania Party), firmly took over the political control, which, in time, they consolidated from a financial point of view too. What the regretted George Serban was asking than (president of the "Timisoara Society"), he and his colleagues, was a simple thing, adopted, anyway, in one form or another, in the three former communist states that joined the western European world: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (including Western Germany immediately after the war): the exclusion of the public life, for a while, of the former communist high dignitaries and the officers or the collaborators of the former "Securitate". For instance, in the Czech Republic, the lustration Law instituted very early this kind of restrictions, much more severe than the ones proposed at that time in Romania. The ones who were asking, ten years ago, that restrictions be imposed as for the access to the important public functions for the high communi