We are not a non-governable country, as the West tends to believe from time to time. We can be governed very well, hardly or softly, or both ways at a time, depending on the circumstances. We have never been governed in any other way, not even during the communist period, when we would have expected at least the hard side to come out. It would be rather strange for one to be angelic or devilish in Romania, the country in which funerals bring laughter and the inns are full of tears, where the laws of street are still powerful. This is why I don’t believe it is right to blame the communist system for what we are today. There were four million communists that weren’t communists, there used to be a party that looked like an Oriental satrapy, there used to be political police with as many bribers and idiots as any present Romanian institution. One cannot impose rules, criteria and laws to people undistinguished by the rootless world in the countryside and the un-rooted world in the cities. Nepotism, bribery, favors, reciprocity will always cause so many exceptions that rules will remain exterior and empty, like communism (what communism?).

For us, the political doctrines didn’t even establish the right and the left. We are yet like a child who cannot choose the right hand. All the doctrine nuclei have been destroyed from the very beginning and covered in corruption and incompetence slops. PNT-CD (the National Peasants’ Christian-Democrat Party), the Christian-Democrat doctrine, totally dissolved. What did Ciorbea and Vasile Radu have in common with the Christian Democracy? Was it the demagogy? Was it the big rings on their fingers? Was it the collaboration with the Security? On the other hand, social-democracy, another great European doctrine, produced the smallest Romanian party (the one led by Cunescu) at first, which resulted in the greatest Romanian part