Ion Mihai Pacepa, about the Cotroceni Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship It would be useless to speak about him. He is the man who was sentenced to death for two times by a regime that did not accept contradictions or denials. He has left Ceausescu’s Romania in 1978 and has denounced communism ever since. Ion Mihai Pacepa talks about the role of the Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.

Jurnalul National: It’s been 28 years since you have left the country. You have been attacking the communist regime that influenced Romania’s destiny all this time. Here we are today, 16 years after the Revolution, facing the initiation of a Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship. Is this your dream come true? Ion Mihai Pacepa: I hope the present process that incriminates communism will unify Romania in the same way in which the eradication of the Nazism did with the USA. 405,399 Americans died in WWII, but their country of immigrants remained close to the White House until it transformed the Powers of the Axis in prosper democracies. Communism killed and terrorized more than 500,000 Romanians. I hope that their sacrifice will make the politicians abandon duplicity and rebuild the political unity that Romania has been missing in the past 60 years. The country is facing a crucial moment and needs unity in the same way it needs air.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

Which should be the first step of the Commission? It should convict the "White Book of the Security" published by SRI (the Romanian Secret Service) in 1994, which says the communist dictatorship has been a legitimate regime and that its political police served for Romania’s interests in a certain historical step. "The White Book" deforms not only the past, but the present as well. It insinuates that the present Romanian secret serv