Vinerian Badoi was among the first that shouted "Down with Ceausescu!". The first that woke up, the first that got killed. People say Vinerian Badoi was the first victim of the Revolution in Bucharest. He got out on the streets just to fulfill his dream of getting to America and live a better life. This year, his daughter has fulfilled her fatherâs dream. She got on the other side of the Ocean.
After finding out about the horrors in Timisoara, a 30 year old man wondered: "Why did all the people able to do something just stayed and did nothing? They were probably scared. Lord, how can one shoot people, women or children?" These were the last words written by Vinerian Badoi in his diary on the 20th of December. He died the next day.
THE LAST LOOK. I met the wife of the martyr hero at the grave of Vinerian Badoi. She calmly remembers those days in 1989. Each sequence of the 20th of December 1989 has its certain spot in the memory of Maria Badoi. These are the last memories with her husband. We left together to work, like in any other day. We were also taking Olivia to kindergarten. I remember our daughter was wearing the uniform and that it had lost her national flag on that day. Vinerian got back to look for it. This was the last time when Olivia got to see her father alive."
Olivia remembers very well the Christmas celebration at the kindergarten, which had taken place a few days earlier. Because she had to work that day, Maria sent Olivia together with Valerian to the kindergarten. "She was very happy because few children had come with their fathers. One could see that the little girl had been dressed up by her father", the woman says while looking at a picture from that time.
SLICES OF LIFE. The family had to listen to several stories in order to find out what happened with Vinerian Badoi during that day. The colleagues from work told Maria
