During the meeting on the 21st of December 1989, when the Romanians in the country take part in the pig killing ceremony and their cousins in the cities "attack" the supermarkets, the Government decided for the initiation of the Institute for the Investigation of the Communism’s Crimes in Romania.

Since 1989, the Romanian communism has been the subject for many articles and researches. Notorious people - from Vladimir Tismaneanu to Lavinia Betea - have made synthesis about the entire communist period or about certain episodes or personalities of the regime, they went through the archives and discovered probatory documents. The success of such enterprises was caused by their assumed detachment. By this, by getting rid of the hysterical anti-communism in the first after-the-revolution years, the communism had to confront a strong hit.

Communism, like fascism, is not possible to happen any more and if we discover their main mechanisms, we discover their influence in the complex and contradictory reality, we emphasize their tricks with which they conquered a lot of people. Moreover, the autochthonous communism must be still studied with the instruments of science in nowadays Romania which is 16 years away from the end of the Ceausescu era and more than half a century away from the Stalinist terror stage. The main characters of the Dej-Pauker times are dead or some poor pensioned old people. Actually, the Romanian society has different targets now. A lot of people that lived during the communist regime are struggling to live from one day to another. The former activists and security members split forever. Some of them got rich. Others face a lot of problems. The newer generations see communism as a world far away in time. It is hard to suppose that a normal young man from the present would be interested in anyway in finding out who sent the people into the c